Travel & Expense Business Partner

36 Hours p/w

Do you love Retail? This is a fantastic opportunity to join our dynamic finance team giving exposure to various areas of the business. Located within our Leicestershire Head Office.

We are currently looking for a Business Partner to manage our travel and expense operation and to support the business in controlling travel expenditure whilst maintaining a tight control over paid company expenses.

Key Responsibilities

• Analysis and allocation of employee travel related costs – approx. £6.8m p.a.
• Review and management of Corporate credit card expenditure – approx. 1,400 cards - £12m spend p.a.
• Monthly production and review of balance sheet reconciliations.
• VAT reclaims process management and maximisation including audit and review
• Monthly reporting, forecasting and budgeting
• Production and maintenance of the Business Travel & Expense policy, ensuring compliance and delivering tailored training when necessary.
• Manage the production and distribution of exception reporting and MI to senior management and directors in order to control spend and monitor compliance.
• Corporate Social Responsibility reporting and audit review.
• A key interface for the business in all travel and expense related matters including issue resolution and queries.
• Maintaining effective working relationships with 3rd party service providers and assisting in contract negotiation and contract management.
• Management of 2 indirect reports in Pune

Criteria

• Qualified Accountant with proven technical, business and accounting skills
• Strong Management skills / ability to motivate a team
• Problem solving skills / Logical thought process - Ability to critically assess and resolve key business issues.
• Effective communication / assertiveness and influencing skills at all levels
• Effective decision making – ability to make well informed timely decisions
• Strong planning / organisation skills and ability to work to strict deadlines and under pressure.
• Strong presentation skills – Confident in leading discussions and promoting business improvements and proactive in meeting with management.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to assimilate large volumes of data.
• IT literate – confident in challenging systems processes.

The Hiring Process: -

Following CV screening you will be informed if you have been success at this stage via email, so please keep any eye on your inbox.

All interviews will take place at our Head office in Enderby, Leicestershire. If you are successful you will be invited to attend a first stage interview which will be competency based, lasting approximately 1 hour. Thereafter the final stage will involve a presentation or practical exercise followed by questions.

Reasonable Adjustments:

Where possible, Next endeavour to support all applicants throughout the hiring process. If you require any reasonable adjustments in order to apply for this vacancy please contact us at headoffice_careers@next.co.uk or call on 0116 272 7000.

Benefits

• Bonus Scheme
• Pension Scheme
• ShareSave Scheme
• Life Assurance
• Staff Discount
• On-site Nursery

About Next

You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 43,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 540 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 70 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!

For further information, and to apply, please visit our website via the “Apply” button below.