Overview

Finance Business Partner

Who we are and what we create?

We’re Kingfisher, a team made up of over 78,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: Castorama, B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Dépôt and Koçtaş - to life. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.

At Kingfisher, our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

We are open to flexible and agile working. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our office, located in Kraków. Talk to us about how we can best support you!

At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles, even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.

In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self.

We also offer a competitive benefit package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career:

• Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dentalcare) for you and your family
• Medicover sports card (Fit&More package)
• Life insurance financed by the employer
• 30-minute lunch break included in the 8-hour working day
• Work in a highly professional and stimulating atmosphere
• Training & Buddy programme that will allow you to quickly adapt to your new role
• Wellbeing programme for employees
• Co-financing of monthly tickets for the public transport in Krakow
• Comfortable working environment in the office and the possibility of home office
• Language courses, accounting courses, access to LinkedIn Learning and the possibility of co-financing studies and certification
• Employee referral programme

You no longer need to relocate to get the benefits of working in Kraków.But you can stick to your routine if you want to.Join Kingfisher and work remotely.
What’s the job?

• Own the financial analysis to ensure the best decision making for key investment activities. This includes ownership of the ATG Decomposition Programme model
• Make Group Tech costs (plans and actuals) visible and transparent to key stakeholders in a clear, “non-financial” manner to identify actions to drive opportunities and mitigate risks and challenge business assumptions in forecasting and planning to improve the understanding of IT cost across Kingfisher
• Work with Group Tech teams to improve Forecasting accuracy
• Create relationships with senior stakeholders to ensure they become part of the leadership team for the department while always positively representing the finance team within the wider Kingfisher Group Tech business
• Fully understand in flight and future Group Tech projects to ensure spend on projects is correctly reported and forecasted
• Provide financial analysis and financial accounting teams with the information required to prepare the monthly accounts on a timely basis
• Work closely with the financial analysts to provide a seamless link between the Kingfisher Group Tech Finance team and the Kingfisher Group Tech decision makers
• Preparation of business cases for Group Tech projects and linking these through to budgets and forecasts as well as post investment reviews
• Take a full and active part in improvement projects during a time of considerable change within Kingfisher

What you’ll bring

• Advanced knowledge in the area of accounting/finance (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Advanced Excel skills
• Significant business-facing or commercial finance experience working in a business partnering background
• Comfortable building relationships with senior stakeholders and challenging where appropriate
• Dynamic and forward thinking individual with the ability to analyse complex data with sound rationale and intellectual rigour
• Possess excellent interpersonal, written and verbal skills with the ability to work at all levels of the organisation
• Strong people management experience especially including managing stakeholders without a direct reporting line
• Excellent attention to detail with the ability to following through to completion
• Strong ability to interpret financial information and deploy it effectively across the organisation
• Proactive approach to driving efficiencies and improvements across teams with a demonstrable history of change management
• Positive attitude, paired with a strong analytical approach with the ability to work competently under pressure to meet deadlines
• Confident presenting data to small and large groups of people
• Able to work with ambiguity & be comfortable with change
• Experience working in a matrix environment is desirable

To get to know us better visit:

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