Senior Finance Manager, Retail Cost Centre of Excellence in Halifax

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Group Cost & Investment team as a senior leader within the Retail Cost Centre of Excellence. Reporting to the Head of Finance, you'll play a key role in delivering high-quality financial insight, planning and performance information for Retail. Working closely with Finance Business Partners and colleagues across Finance, you'll turn financial information into meaningful insight that supports better decision-making. You'll also lead and develop a team of Finance colleagues, creating an inclusive and supportive environment where people can perform at their best, continually develop their capabilities and play an active part in our Cost Transformation journey.

This is a 12 month opportunity to take a leading role in the Retail Cost Centre of Excellence, using high-quality financial insight to shape planning, performance and better decision-making across Retail. You'll bring Finance colleagues together, develop a talented and inclusive team, and help drive our Cost Transformation journey forward!

What you'll be doing:

• Lead and develop a high-performing team, creating an inclusive environment where colleagues can contribute, challenge and grow.
• Deliver high-quality financial insight and MI, supporting month end and planning cycles with robust controls and effective review.
• Turn financial information into actionable insight, helping Finance Business Partners understand performance, challenge assumptions and make better decisions.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships, collaborating across Finance while providing constructive challenge to deliver the right outcomes.
• Lead continuous improvement and Finance transformation, simplifying and standardising processes, strengthening controls and embedding new ways of working across people, processes, data and reporting.

What we're looking for:

• A recognised accountancy qualification or equivalent relevant Finance experience.
• Proficient skill in financial planning and forecasting, using judgement to produce meaningful information that supports business decisions.
• Experience of leading, motivating and developing: Proficient skill in coaching colleagues, setting clear expectations and supporting people to take ownership of their performance and development.
• Excellent in presenting complex information clearly and meaningfully for different audiences.
• Excellent ability to understand wider implications and drive issues through to resolution.
• Expert in building trusted relationships and working across Finance to achieve shared outcomes.

Experience of cost management and/or working within a Finance Centre of Excellence would be really useful. Experience of Finance transformation, process improvement or significant organisational change is also beneficial.

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

This is a place for you. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment where all our candidates have the opportunity to shine.