This is a great opportunity to join our fast-paced International Finance team and play a key role in supporting the continued growth of our business across Europe, the Middle East and Rest of World.
You’ll own the P&L for a region within our international business, partnering with senior leaders to understand performance, manage costs and drive profitability across our Next Direct markets. With our international business continuing to grow, you’ll be at the heart of the numbers — providing insight, challenging thinking and helping shape future opportunities.
What You Will Be Doing
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Owning the end-to-end regional P&L, making sure sales, costs and profitability are accurate and understood.
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Building strong relationships with our finance and business teams, providing insight and challenge to help drive performance.
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Partnering with Marketing to understand and maximise the return on our growing international investment.
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Reporting weekly sales and producing monthly forecasts by country, including full-price and markdown performance.
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Supporting our twice-yearly budgeting process and helping shape our view of future performance.
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Building commercial models to assess new international opportunities and support business decisions.
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Turning data into clear, meaningful insight for senior stakeholders — helping them understand what’s happening, why it’s happening and what we can do next.
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CIMA, ACCA or ACA qualified or part-qualified.
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Strong Excel skills and confidence working with data.
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A naturally analytical and commercially minded approach, with the ability to turn numbers into clear insight
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Great communication and stakeholder skills, with the confidence to build relationships and challenge when needed.
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Excellent organisation and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.
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A proactive, self-motivated approach and the drive to make things happen.
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Experience with Databricks, Snowflake or other advanced data architecture tools would be a bonus, but isn’t essential.
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About UsYou know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 44,000 people across the Next group. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 450 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 80 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global! About the Team- 25% off most NEXT, MADE*, Lipsy*, Gap* and Victoria's Secret* products (*when purchased through NEXT)
- Company performance based bonus
- Sharesave scheme
- On-site Nursery available; OFSTED outstanding in all areas
- 10% off most partner brands & up to 15% off Branded Beauty
- Early VIP access to sale stock
- Access to fantastic discounts at our Staff Shops
- Restaurants with great food at amazing prices
- Access a digital GP and other free health and wellbeing services
- Free on-site parking
- Financial Wellbeing - Save, track and enhance your financial wellbeing
- Apprenticeship - Grow and develop on the job whilst gaining a qualification
- Direct to Work - Discount online and instore, collect your items the next day for free from your place of work or local store
- Support Networks - Access to Network Groups to empower and celebrate each other
- Wellhub - Discounted flexible monthly gym memberships, with apps, PT sessions and more
Skills Required
- CIMA, ACCA, or ACA qualified or part-qualified
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills
- Confidence working with data
- Analytical and commercially minded approach
- Ability to turn financial data into clear insight
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to build relationships and challenge constructively
- Excellent organization and ability to manage multiple priorities
- Proactive, self-motivated approach
- Experience with Databricks, Snowflake, or other advanced data architecture tools
What We Do
BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world and is advancing the world of health by improving medical discovery, diagnostics and the delivery of care. The company supports the heroes on the frontlines of health care by developing innovative technology, services and solutions that help advance both clinical therapy for patients and clinical process for health care providers. BD and its 65,000 employees have a passion and commitment to help improve patient outcomes, improve the safety and efficiency of clinicians’ care delivery process, enable laboratory scientists to better diagnose disease and advance researchers’ capabilities to develop the next generation of diagnostics and therapeutics. BD has a presence in virtually every country and partners with organizations around the world to address some of the most challenging global health issues. By working in close collaboration with customers, BD can help enhance outcomes, lower costs, increase efficiencies, improve safety and expand access to health care. In 2017, BD welcomed C. R. Bard and its products into the BD family. For more information on BD, please visit bd.com.
