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About the Role
Great opportunity for recent graduate. This role partners with Retail Operations to monitor and improve store-level performance, including sales growth, margin optimisation, and controllable cost management. Responsibilities include leading financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting for the Retail channel, developing reporting for retail performance, and providing commercial insights to optimise store performance. The role also supports new store openings, closures, and refurbishments through financial modelling and scenario planning, and identifies opportunities to strengthen finance capabilities within the Retail team.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Retail Operations to monitor and improve store-level performance, including sales growth, margin optimisation, and controllable cost management.
- Lead the financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes for the Retail channel.
- Develop and maintain reporting for retail performance (store P&Ls, KPIs, and variance analysis).
- Provide commercial insights and recommendations to optimise store performance and portfolio effectiveness.
- Support new store openings, closures, and refurbishments through financial modelling and scenario planning.
- Identify opportunities to strengthen finance capabilities across the Retail team.
- Proactively review innovative ways of modelling and presenting data to benchmark channel performance.
Requirements
- Commercially astute, proactive, and collaborative finance professional with a proven track record of supporting operational teams to deliver results.
- Strong commercial finance experience, ideally in a retail or consumer-facing environment.
- Proven ability to partner with operations to deliver improved business performance.
- Expertise in budgeting, forecasting, and performance reporting.
- Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills.
- Solid understanding of P&L management, margin analysis, and cost optimisation.
- Strong knowledge of internal controls and financial compliance.
- Experience using ERP systems (SAP desirable).
- Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills.
- Confidence to contribute to commercial decision-making.
Skills
- Advanced Excel
- Financial modelling
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Performance reporting
- P&L management
- Margin analysis
- Cost optimisation
- Internal controls
- Financial compliance
- ERP systems
- Interpersonal skills
- Influencing skills
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- WFH 2 days per week
Experience Level
- 2+ years of management or commercial accounting experience
Education Level
- Working towards to CPA, CA, CIMA qualification beneficial
Benefits
- Career growth
- Study assistance
- Ongoing training and development
- Competitive salary and bonus
- Staff car parking
- Company events
- Recognition programs
- 50% staff discounts
- Half-day Fridays in Dec to Feb
- A paid day off on your birthday
- Positive environment
- Career and personal growth
- Celebrating achievements
- Recognising successes
- Engaging and creative workplace
- Healthy work/life balance
About the Company
- Lindt & Sprüngli Group is a global leader in the premium chocolate category with over 180 years of history.
- The company has 12 factories in Europe and the USA, with products sold by 41 subsidiaries and branch offices globally.
- With around 15,500 employees, Lindt & Sprüngli reported sales of CHF 5.92 billion in 2025.
- The company is committed to contributing to a sustainable tomorrow, with its Responsible Sourcing Standard for cocoa implemented since 2008.
- Lindt & Sprüngli fosters a culture of community, mutual support, innovation, and diversity, empowering employees to grow and shape a sustainable future.
Equal Opportunity
- We are a responsible “employer of choice” who provides an inspiring people experience.