Finance Business Partner

Swindon
£55,000 per year
Permanent
Full-time

2 months ago
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This is a commercial finance role focused on budgeting, forecasting, and delivering insightful analysis to support trading performance. Ideal for a qualified accountant with strong Excel skills and experience partnering with commercial teams in a fast-paced environment.Within the Commercial Finance teams, everything depends on the overall trading environment and our competitors. It's fast-paced and you never know what will happen next. We're now recruiting for a Finance Business Partner to join our team reporting to the Commercial Head of Finance.The aim of this role is to provide financial and analytical support to the trading team, producing weekly routine reports along with ad hoc trial analysis, as well as supporting with the production of budgets and forecasts for the commercial P&L. You will also manage the month end reporting, including journal processing and reconciliations and support with audit requirements and ensure a clean cut off at half year and year end.What you'll be doing:

Support the Head of Finance with all planning cycles; Budget, Forecast 1, Forecast 2 and 3 year Plan
Update the Cognos database with adjustments for Sales & Margin, Incomes & Costs
Prepare Budget & Forecast packs for review meetings along with output reports for the trading teams
Produce weekly reports for the trading teams including category sales analysis and margin Volume/Rate/Mix analysis
Produce ad hoc seasonal reports for key trading periods e.g. Back to School/Christmas
Produce trial reports on a pre versus post versus control basis
Complete all month end reporting including processing journals, reconciling balances and interpreting variances
Report the month end position to the Head of Finance and the trading teams
Manage aged debt and support the trading teams to prevent bad debt
Assist the trading teams to achieve the half year and year end cash targets

Be part of an exciting transformation story as TGJones revives the UK highstreetAdd true value and the chance to grow with a business on the riseWe are looking for someone who is ideally a fully qualified accountant with experience of forecasting and budgets. You should be proactive and analytical with advanced Excel skills who is reliable and thorough. Experience of working with Cognos and Power BI desirable. Ability to work under pressure and to strict deadlines is a must; Finance is ever changing so being flexible and open to change is beneficial. You'll need to be interpersonal with strong influencing and communication skills and strong attention to detail and organisation skills with ability to work independently.TGJones is the newly formed high street retail brand that marks the next chapter for the former WHSmith High Street division, following a strategic acquisition by private equity. With a renewed focus, fresh leadership, and significant investment, TGJones is undergoing a full-scale transformation - modernising operations, revamping its proposition, and re-energising its presence on UK high streets. While it retains the national footprint and infrastructure of a heritage brand, it now operates with the pace and ambition of a scale-up. This is a unique opportunity to join a well-established business at a rare inflection point - combining stability with genuine change, innovation, and career-building potential.We're a company that values our people; from day one you will receive ongoing support and have access to our various training and development programmes as well as exciting career development opportunities for your future. We offer a wide range of benefits to say thank you for all your hard work including a competitive salary, a profit related bonus, 25 days holiday plus your birthday off, pension, as well as other perks such as our popular holiday trading scheme. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment.

Michael Page