Senior Finance Manager

Role Summary

We are looking for an experienced retail commercial finance professional to join Fashion, Home & Beauty for a critical four-month period covering Financial Year 2028 (FY28) Budget delivery and peak Q4 trading.

This is a hands-on role partnering Buying and Merchandising teams across the Business Units.

We need someone who can hit the ground running, quickly get under the skin of the numbers and provide strong financial insight, challenge and decision support from day one.

The role will initially be heavily focused on building and landing the FY28 Budget, before moving increasingly into peak trading, forecasting and commercial decision support.

Key accountabilities of the role

• Financial Year 28 Budget
• Own the BU budget model, ensuring it links effectively into the overall FP&A process.
• Update history and central inputs, including sales ambitions, POS and sell-through assumptions, and work through iterative views with the leadership team.
• Build the top-down financial story and key building blocks, including market, availability, promotional and prior-year/lapping assumptions.
• Partner the BUs to build the budget deck and overall commercial story, clearly articulating assumptions, risks and opportunities.
• Provide budget guidance to Merchandising and thoroughly review and challenge systemic inputs, phasing and assumptions.
• Identify gaps to target and work with the commercial teams to determine the actions required to close them.
• Trading & commercial support
• Support Monday trade, helping shape the performance story, highlight key risks and opportunities and identify areas requiring deeper analysis.
• Support monthly commercial review meetings, coordinating inputs and working with BUs on the P&L and Intake Margin story, including challenge of stock and Stock into Sale.
• Support forecasting and department reviews, maintaining a clear view of the latest outlook, risks and opportunities and changes versus forecast.
• Maintain a strong understanding of the BU P&L across sales, margin and stock, ensuring movements and underlying drivers can be clearly explained.
• Provide ad hoc commercial analysis and scenario modelling to support decisions across the BUs, including promotional and trading decisions.