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Join our team and be part of a company that truly lives its values. With our expertise and commitment to innovation, we aim to build trust and make health and wellness accessible to all. By fostering inclusivity and care, we work collaboratively to improve the well-being of our colleagues, customers, and communities.
We have a fantastic opportunity to join us as a Finance Business Partner - Strategic Growth on a 12 months fixed term contract at Holland & Barrett. This role is critical to enabling the commercial leadership team to unlock growth opportunities and deliver strategic objectives. It ensures the financial health and feasibility of growth initiatives, contributing directly to revenue generation and operational efficiencies in alignment with the broader company strategy.
This role will provide financial leadership and business partnering for strategic transformation projects, focusing on B2B and Marketplace growth initiatives. The role ensures business cases are developed on aligned assumptions, provides insightful analysis to drive decision-making, and supports the transition from strategy to execution.
The Role:
Key Responsibilities:
Major Projects and Initiatives:
- Lead commercial finance support for B2B and Marketplace initiatives, providing weekly and monthly reporting, financial analysis, and insightful content for commercial reviews.
- Build and present robust business cases for growth opportunities, including financial modelling, scenario planning, and sensitivity analysis.
- Provide actionable insight on initiative performance, ensuring alignment with business objectives and identifying opportunities for improvement.
- Develop and implement a finance plan to transition initiatives from concept to Go-Live, ensuring systems, reporting, and analysis are prepared.
Operational Tasks:
- Manage the handover of initiatives into BAU Finance teams, ensuring ongoing requirements are well-documented.
- Drive a continuous improvement culture across systems, processes, and reporting within the finance team.
- Accuracy and effectiveness of business cases presented at stage gate reviews.
- Financial performance of B2B and Marketplace initiatives compared to initial forecasts.
- Timely and successful implementation of finance plans for growth initiatives.
- Quality of insights and reporting delivered to stakeholders.
- Smooth transition of initiatives to BAU with clear documentation and process alignment.
Location
This role is based in Nuneaton, and may be occasionally required to travel to our London Hub or to any other location of H&B. We support flexibility and productivity of our employees by hybrid working arrangements with minimum 2 days presence in the office.
The Person:
Key Requirements:
- Strong understanding of financial principles, including budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis.
- Comprehensive knowledge of business partnering practices and their application in a commercial setting.
- Awareness of strategic goal alignment with operational processes and decision-making frameworks.
- Advanced financial modelling and business case development skills.
- Strong leadership and communication skills to influence cross-functional teams.
- Proven experience in a fast-paced, commercial environment with sharp commercial acumen.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with senior leaders and challenge assumptions effectively.
- Track record of leading financial aspects of strategic initiatives from concept to execution.
- Experience in analysing and improving financial performance metrics such as sales, margin, and EBITDA.
What we offer:
Our Benefits for this role include, but not limited to:
- H&B Employee Discount - 25%
- Bonus
- Pension company contribution
- 33 Days Holiday per year (Inclusive of bank holidays)
- Private Medical Care
- Exclusive benefits, free advice and savings from a range of retailers and providers
- Electric Car Scheme
We're passionate about helping every colleague thrive across all dimensions of wellbeing, and we're committed to having a diverse and inclusive workplace. In line with our EPIC values (Expertise, Pioneering, Inclusive, Caring), we embrace and actively celebrate all our colleagues' unique and varying experiences, backgrounds, identities and cultures - I am me, we are H&B.
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