Description
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you here at Sainsbury’s. For a FTSE business, we move incredibly fast. When we’re not leading projects, we’re supporting teams across the wider group to achieve their goals. And here, you can see the impact of your work as soon as you walk into a store, giving you a real sense of purpose and responsibility.
Join our team at Argos as a Finance Business Manager EPT (Cost to Serve) and immerse yourself in a dynamic environment where your expertise in profitability measures and cost-to-serve principles will play a crucial role in driving informed decision-making.
What you'll do
As the Finance Business Manager EPT (Cost to Serve) at Argos, you will play a crucial role in owning and defining the business and Finance aspects of EPT, ensuring profitability measures, cost pools, allocation drivers, and assumptions are clearly articulated and approved.
Responsibilities
- Owning and defining the business and Finance aspects of EPT
- Ensuring profitability measures, cost pools, allocation drivers, and assumptions are clearly articulated and approved
- Serving as the key liaison between Finance, Commercial, and engineering teams
- Translating business requirements into precise data requirements
- Coordinating requirements, user testing, Finance sign-off, and backlog priorities
- Elucidating profitability movements, clarifying limitations, and promoting effective utilisation of EPT across the organisation
Who you are
As a Finance Business Manager EPT (Cost to Serve) for Argos, you are a strategic and detail-oriented professional with a deep understanding of retail operating P & L, profitability, and cost-to-serve principles.
Essential Criteria
- Demonstrable knowledge of retail profit and loss management, profitability measures, cost-to-serve principles, cost allocation methodologies and commercial performance drivers
- Proven experience translating finance and business requirements into documented business rules, functional requirements and testable acceptance criteria for technology or data solutions
- Experience coordinating user acceptance testing, reconciling outputs against agreed requirements, and securing formal business or finance approval for system or process changes
- Demonstrable ability to analyse profitability performance and identify the impact of trading activity, allocation methodologies, data changes and business assumptions on financial outputs
- Proven experience working across finance, commercial and technical stakeholders to prioritise requirements, maintain delivery backlogs and achieve agreement on business outcomes and priorities
Benefits
- Colleague discount: 10% on shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat
- Pensions scheme and life cover
- Performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary
- Annual holiday allowance
- Private healthcare
- Season ticket loans
- Interest-free car loan of up to £10k
- Cycle to work scheme
- Health cash plans
- Salary advance
- Access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers
- Up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave