More about the role
This is a key commercial finance role within our dynamic and fast-growing Convenience division. Working closely with Commercial teams, this role provides financial insight, challenge and analysis that supports better decision-making and drives profitable growth.
This role partners with Category Directors and Commercial stakeholders to understand performance, identify opportunities and risks, and translate complex financial and trading data into meaningful commercial recommendations. Supporting the wider commercial finance team, this role plays a key part in budgeting, forecasting and performance reporting while helping shape the commercial agenda through data-driven insight.
Accountabilities
Customer
- Building strong relationships as a business partner to commercial and supply chain functions; embedding finance into day-to-day decision making
- Comfortable and adaptive to working with both financial and non-finance facing stakeholders
- Responsive to stakeholders across the commercial function and ad hoc requests from these individuals
- Identify opportunities to improve profitability through enhanced analysis and commercial challenge.
Colleague
- Partner with Category Managers and Commercial stakeholders to provide financial insight that supports trading performance, pricing decisions, promotional activity and margin improvement.
- Driving continuous improvement in processes and analysis within Commercial Finance
Operational
- Produce robust analysis of weekly and periodic trading performance, identifying trends, explaining variances and recommending actions or improvement
- Support annual budget setting for commercial margin
- Build reporting and analytical tools that improve understanding of business performance and enable faster decision-making.
- Support quarterly outturn and forecast delivery plan
- Collaborate across Finance to ensure consistency of reporting, planning and governance.
Sales, Profit and Cash
- Support strategic commercial decisions, including pricing, ranging, promotions and supplier investment, through robust financial analysis and recommendations
- Develop financial models and business cases to support commercial initiatives and investment decisions.
- Develop business cases for commercial initiatives and evaluate post-investment performance.
More about you
Role Specific Knowledge, Skills & Experience:
Knowledge
- A qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA), with strong commercial acumen and an understanding of commercial and retail finance
Skills
- The confidence & ability to challenge non-finance stakeholders to deliver the right end-results
- Strong Excel and Google Workspace skills with experience using financial reporting and planning systems.
- Resilience and the ability to adapt in an ever changing environment
- Confident in analysing complex data, with the ability to turn it into clear, actionable insight
- Proactive, curious and solutions-focused – always looking for ways to add value.
Experience
- Experience within retail, FMCG or another fast-paced consumer-facing business
- Understanding of retail dynamics (e.g., promotional mechanics, wastage, supply chain metrics)
More about our perks
In return for all your hard work, you will receive:
- 15% discount in store from the day you join us
- Additional 10% discount card for a friend or family member
- Annual bonus scheme
- Career progression and development opportunities
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Market leading pension scheme and life assurance
- Healthcare benefits including Aviva Digital GP
- ‘MyPerks’ giving you discount with over 850 retailers
- Free parking onsite
- Enhanced Family, Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Private Healthcare
Alive with activity, our modern Head Office is home to our corporate teams that make sure everything runs smoothly. Here, you’ll find comfy breakout areas, a coffee shop, Morrisons Daily and a subsidised restaurant. We are within commuting distance of Leeds, Manchester and the Yorkshire Dales - and we even have free parking!
At our Head Office you will expect to find supplier showcases, charity fundraising and celebrations all year round for the events that mean the most to our colleagues.
There’s more to our business as it’s fast paced and ever changing, as such we’ve got lots of fresh opportunities for you to play your part in our success. We’d love to meet you!
At Morrisons, we’re proud to be building a team that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We want every colleague to feel respected, supported and able to be themselves at work. Different voices, experiences and ways of thinking help us grow and improve and that’s good for our customers too.
We’re always looking for people from all walks of life to join us and bring their talents to our team. Together, we can build a workplace where everyone has the chance to thrive, make a difference and belong.
About Us
Skills Required
- Qualified accountant with CIMA, ACCA, or ACA qualification
- Strong commercial acumen and understanding of commercial and retail finance
- Ability to challenge non-finance stakeholders and deliver effective outcomes
- Strong Excel and Google Workspace skills
- Experience using financial reporting and planning systems
- Ability to analyze complex data and convert it into actionable insight
- Resilience and adaptability in a changing environment
- Proactive, curious, and solutions-focused approach
- Experience within retail, FMCG, or another fast-paced consumer-facing business
- Understanding of retail dynamics, including promotional mechanics, wastage, and supply chain metrics
Wm Morrison Supermarkets Limited Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Wm Morrison Supermarkets Limited and has not been reviewed or approved by Wm Morrison Supermarkets Limited.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Shopping discounts and everyday savings programs are highlighted as meaningful perks that add tangible value. Feedback suggests these benefits are particularly attractive for those who regularly shop with the company.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Holiday entitlement is described as generous for the sector and can increase with service. Feedback suggests this breadth of leave stands out compared with basic retail provisions.
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Parental & Family Support — Enhanced family-related leave, including support for maternity, adoption, paternity, neonatal and fertility needs, is emphasized as a strong part of the package. Feedback suggests these policies exceed standard retail expectations.
Wm Morrison Supermarkets Limited Insights
What We Do
Morrisons is a UK-based supermarket and integrated food business serving customers through a nationwide network of stores and online delivery channels. Its operations span grocery retail, wholesale, distribution, and food manufacturing. The company sells a broad range of fresh and packaged foods and emphasizes vertical integration, sourcing and processing about half of its fresh food itself, with a purpose of making good food affordable for everyone.
