Junior Finance Partner

Location

Hybrid: 12 days in the office/Support Centre on Hams Hall Distribution Park Coleshill.

Why The Works

We dont just sell products. We inspire reading learning creativity and play.

You sell the paint that turns someone into an artist. You provide the book that unleashes an inner author. You supply the games that help bring families together. You give someone the puzzle book that reconnects someone with a late family members memory.

You never know who someone will become. So with your passion and our products you will help ignite the spark in helping people unleash their creativity find new passions hobbies or rekindle fond memories.

The unseen possibilities are limitless and it all starts with you.

Become a Junior Finance Partner

Reporting to the Head of Commercial Finance this role sits within an existing commercial team of five. In this key role you will develop a good understanding of the key drivers of the business to enable you to effectively deliver insight challenge add value and influence strategic business decisions. You will be responsible for building strong relationships and business partnering with senior managers and their teams providing financial insight to support their commercial decision making.

Your Mission

• Dedicated support to the commercial management teams building a strong relationship with them and their teams.
• Providing effective commercial support to ensure key operational commercial and financial targets are delivered.
• Reporting and understanding KPIs.
• Play a key role in supporting the budgeting and forecasting process.
• Providing adhoc analysis and reporting to the business
• Ownership of the monthly management accounts for areas of responsibility
• Represent finance in commercial project working groups.
  
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Skills/Behaviours That Will Set You Apart

• Experience in a retail environment or similar fast paced organisation
• Experience in using MI tools such as Cognos TM1 Aptos
• Experience of budgeting and forecasting processes including reviewing and challenging commercial targets with budgetholders
• Experience in using Excel.

Our PERKS really are The Works

• 25% Colleague Discount! Plus exclusive Double Discount days!
• MyWorks Access exclusive online discounts across hundreds of retailers holidays utilities deals tech and more!
• Holiday 33 days including bank holidays.
• Holiday Purchase Purchase an additional 5 days
• CanDo Academy Grow your skills and career with instant access to further training and development in areas that interest you.
• Wagestream Claim early access to 50% of your wages as you earn them for when life happens!
• Share Scheme Unleash your inner Monopoly mogul and own a piece of The Works!
• 24/7 support for you and your family Through our partnership with the Retail Trust who provide an Employee Assistance Programme and so much more!
• Healthcare Cash Plan To support your everyday healthcare costs
• And loads more! Long Service Awards pension life assurance Cycle to Work and optional charity giving.

Our Purpose

To inspire reading. learning creativity and play making lives more fulfilled.

Our Values

We are Crafty We are Caring We are Cando

We Listen. We Care

Each year we run an anonymous colleague engagement survey. This is so important for us to hear your feedback and suggestions. We want to know whats going great and what needs a couple of tweaks to help make The Works the best place youve ever worked! Youll have opportunity to help give us that direction.

Promoting Diversity Inclusion and Applying Reasonable Adjustments

At The Works we are proud to have an inclusive culture where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. Our roles are open to all including underrepresented groups such as ethnic minorities people with disabilities carers & members of the LGBTQ community (including those who identify as lesbian gay bi trans nonbinary or use another term).

We are open to discussing parttime and flexible working and where possible will try to support this. If you need reasonable adjustments to apply for this role please contact and well be happy to help!

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