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Senior Manager Clothing Trading Finance - Lutterworth

Employer
Asda
Location
Lutterworth, Leicestershire
Salary
Competitive salary plus benefits
Closing date
28 Jun 2022
Senior Manager Clothing Trading Finance - Lutterworth

This position is a senior leader within Commercial Finance delivering against our vision to shape Asda's future strategy. This role reports into the
Senior Director for Clothing and General Merchandise (GM) Finance. The role has full accountability for a 1.5bn business unit, partnering the
Clothing team and is an active member of both finance and trading leadership teams. This is a commercial and analytical role where you will require
strong influencing and networking skills to work with all levels of the Clothing and Finance teams. It's a great opportunity for a colleague with lots of
drive to develop their Asda career in a high profile role. This job requires 2-3 days based in George House per week.

What you'll do

Lead the Clothing trading commercial finance team, and partner with the Clothing sourcing and George.com SM colleague and that team
Utilise data visualisation tools to interpret trends within financial data, providing insight into weekly and monthly performance reviews
Ownership of the financial model for the Clothing strategy and 3 year plan
Drive delivery of the 1 year plan in partnership with the Clothing VP & Senior Directors; as well as leading AW and SS planning and buys
Provide guidance to help mitigate risks and capitalise on opportunities
Monitor performance against plan/forecast/market and drive analysis to understand, evaluate, challenge and improve trading performance
Strengthen performance management across the P&L through improved forecast accuracy & planning
Coach and develop the team. The role has line management responsibility for 2 colleagues although the successful candidate will also be
expected to play a broader Leadership role across the wider Clothing business and Commercial finance team.

How you'll do it

The candidate will be expected to use their data visualisation experience, analytical skills, judgement and broader business network to
understand trading performance, giving visibility of the right issues at the right time, stimulating strategic decision making, improving business
performance and driving financial discipline. This will be achieved through:
Accounting, data analysis & visualisation experience
Confident and pro-active with the ability to challenge stakeholders
An ability to influence at a senior level
Highly analytical and inquisitive approach with an eye for detail
Strong commercial awareness - ability to critically evaluate and clearly articulate commercial performance
A positive attitude and keen to develop - motivated to get the job done and to deliver to tight timelines; actively seeking accountability and
opportunity
Strong interpersonal skills

You will also get an excellent benefits package including;-

  • 8,000 company car or car allowance plus discretionary company bonus
  • Company pension 1.5 times colleagues contribution (Max 15%)
  • 10% colleague discount, free parking and many additional rewards.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves.

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