Commercial Finance Business Partner

Our Head Office department is located in the heart of Piccadilly and occupies the 5th & 6th floor of our beautiful flagship store. This central London location, offers so much to explore including restaurants, bars, cultural sites, shopping and more, and only a short walk from the Green Park Tube Station and plenty of bus stops. We're looking for a commercially focused Finance Business Partner to support our Hospitality & Restaurants division across one of the world's most iconic luxury retailers. Based in our Piccadilly Head Office, this is an exciting opportunity to partner with business leaders, providing analytical insight, commercial decision support and timely financial information to enable informed, value-driven decisions. Working closely with the Operational Leadership Team and wider business, you will challenge and influence stakeholders to drive performance, profitability and sustainable growth across our award-winning restaurants, bars and hospitality experiences. You'll identify risks and opportunities, support planning and forecasting activities, and help shape actions that maximise contribution while delivering operational excellence. Reports to: Head of Commercial Trading Key interfaces: CFO, Commercial Finance Director, Operational Leadership Team, Executive Leadership Team, BI Developer, Hospitality, 1. Financial Analysis & Report

• Support, challenge and provide analytical insight - analyse current and past trends in KPIs highlighting commercial opportunities and risks to revenue, margin, costs thereby driving channel contribution and profitability. Ensure KPIs remain appropriate for measurement of performance
• Analyse complex financial information and reports to provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management and executives for decision making purposes
2. Budgeting & Forecasting
• Ensure smooth sign off with relevant directors
• Monitor performance against budget/forecast with relevant stakeholders on a monthly basis and feedback highlights to the finance team via the monthly P&L meeting
• Own payroll budget
3. Business Partnering
• Own/deliver business reporting for your channels that is fit for purpose - using Business Intelligence Tool and Dashboard reports
• Improve performance by evaluating processes to drive efficiencies
• Prepare presentations to Exec Board and Senior Management Team
• Coach non-financial managers in understanding information and using analysis to manage the business
• Develop close working relationships with key contacts to enable the business to understand planned activities and their impact
• Prioritise customer support accordingly and actively seek feedback to monitor how information provided has contributed to effective decision making
4. Strategic Planning
• Oversee 5 Year Plan from a commercial finance perspective ensuring all project benefits are built into subsequent plans/forecast. Develop tracking mechanisms to measure improvements and that performance against projects are monitored with learnings built into future projects
• Gain insight from market metrics and attend conferences and third-party events where possible to expand network and gain further understanding of market conditions
5. Risk & Ops Management and mitigation
• Manage risks & ops through monthly performance cycle with business partners & stake holders.
• Keep a record of risks & ops from sales through to trading profit, working through challenges with relevant stakeholders and plans to mitigate risks.
6. Ad-Hoc analysis & projects
• Evaluate new business proposals, support decision-making through commercial analysis of initiatives along with sensitivities/best case & worse case scenarios. Evaluate from an ROI and IRR perspective to ensure proposal meets company criteria and are aligned with business priorities.
• Perform ad hoc analysis as required from stakeholders
• Accuracy of data and analysis provided by the team and the ability to produce reports and data in a timely manner.
  
  ACCA, CIMA or ACA qualified + 5 years post qualified experience
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, ability to write / use macros, index matches, if formula, pivots etc
• Ability to develop data platforms and commercial reports. Proven track record in delivering and creating company reports.
• Experience in multi-unit retail/restaurant environments
• Strong leadership experience
• Highest standards of accuracy and precision;
• Highly organized and an ability to multi task at speed.
• Articulate with excellent verbal, written communication and presentation skills
• Ability to think creatively, highly-driven and self-motivated
• Use of Business intelligence platform, such as Power BI, D365 or similar tools (desired)
• Ability to manage objections and conflicts in an effective way (desired)
• Experience of Microsoft DAX (desired)
• Experience of D365 (desired)
  
  A competitive salary
• A generous store and restaurant discount of up to 40%
• 25 days holidays (excluded bank holidays) and an extra day off for your birthday
• A fantastic subsidised staff restaurant which uses Fortnum's ingredients
• A range of opportunities to develop and grow personally and professionally
• Excellent pension scheme
We are committed to developing your career and nurturing your talent, regardless of age; disability; gender reassignment; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity; race; religion or belief; sex; sexual orientation. We respect and embrace each other's differences, to create a truly inclusive environment. In the last year alone, our people have been recognised and celebrated, winning awards for their outstanding contributions to Retail, Technology, Global Hospitality & Tourism, Visual Merchandising & Display, Customer Service and Local Community Awards.