Commercial Senior Finance Manager

Ocado Group is recruiting: Commercial Senior Finance Manager, based in Hatfield, United Kingdom.

About the role: This is a high-visibility Senior Finance Manager opportunity to embed directly within Ocado’s Executive team, acting as a key financial partner to the Office of the CEO, Legal and Business Integrity, People, and Reward.

What you would be doing:

• Being a trusted finance business partner to key Group Operations functions
• Building strong relationships with senior stakeholders, including the Deputy-CEO, Chief People Officer, General Counsel and Head of Reward
• Leveraging a strong commercial and technical understanding of Ocado’s business to translate business strategy into financial plans through the preparation of Budgets and…
• Providing strategic financial support to your business partners, helping to identify financial risks with proposed mitigations and evaluating the financial impact of key…
• Monitoring and reporting monthly spend against budget across partnered functions to support the business in delivering positive cash flow, proactively flagging risks and…
• Identifying opportunities to streamline finance processes and reporting within Group Ops, improving the quality of data and insight delivered to stakeholders

What they are looking for:

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with post-qualification experience in an accounting or a finance business partnering role
• Proficient in building trusted relationships with senior finance and/or non-finance stakeholders, including at Exec or Exec-1 level
• Strong financial and management reporting skills, including ownership of budgeting and forecasting (Outlook) cycles
• Confident using financial systems and BI tools (e.g. EPM, Looker or equivalent) and advanced Excel
• High levels of resilience and positivity, with exceptional attention to detail
• Self-driven to both begin and complete tasks, comfortable operating with a lean team and ambiguous or evolving scope

What the employer says it offers:

• Time to recharge: 25 days annual leave (rising to 27 after 5 years), plus the option to buy more – and 30 days a year to work from anywhere in the world.
• Health & wellbeing: Private Medical Insurance from your first month, wellbeing support through specialist apps and EAP, plus Income Protection and Life Assurance.
• Family-first policies: 22 weeks paid maternity/primary carer leave and 6 weeks paid paternity leave
• Financial support: Pension with employer matching up to 7%, share schemes (Sharesave & BAYE), and interest-free loans for train tickets.
• Commuter perks: Cycle to Work Scheme and free shuttle buses to/from Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City stations.
• Exclusive discounts: 15% off at Ocado.com with free delivery (starting in your first month).

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