Business Performance Controller at Leroy Merlin

Main responsibilities:

Partner with the Market Leaders and their teams on the value created by their categories.

• Monitor transversal processes such as budget or back margins
• Manage reaction plan to routine reporting and alerts
• Conduct analysis of performance in order to give feedback and help to raise operational action plan
• Adapt your analysis to the dynamics of the market and to the operational actors
• Develop processes for transversal management of some specific topics connected to previous value creation (Range Performance, Supply Chain performance, Back Margins, Negotiations…)
• Be an active member of the team
• Manage revenue and related expense reporting for the Business Unit, thereby ensuring control, accuracy, predictability, and timely delivery of results, comparative analysis, and commentary to BU leaders and the Regional BU Finance team
• Setting the Markets performance objectives & breaking them down to operational level
• Review of the P&L with Category managers & provide support on areas of development
• Managing Category Manager's KPIs and providing support to attain the set objectives
• Price monitoring and making profitable recommendations to the market teams as well as reviewing offerings on product pricing strategies with financial consequences
• Manage & Support all BU revenue - and expense-reporting, ensuring control, accuracy, predictability, and timely delivery of figures, analysis, and comments.
• Support BU in pursuit of financial targets through in-depth analysis and sharing of financial knowledge.
• Communicate, discuss, and challenge financial impacts with Category-managers. Prepare and present at BU-related meetings where financial input/commentary is required/requested
• Guide Category managers & Procurement specialists on a strategy to attain the set objectives on improving & maintaining Turnover, Margin, Basket value & customer traffic
• Providing operational risk management support to the business units and ensuring proper business performance management through profitability and operational analyses
• Category management , review and analyze cost efficiency and its impact on value creation
• Review, analyze and improve cost to achieve cost efficiency
• Support all business units with insights to make informed decisions toward achieving the company's objectives

The successful candidate should have the following skills, experience and attributes:

Technical Skills:

• Ability to translate operational retail activities in simple economic model
• Strong curiosity about figures and performance
• Appreciate Operations and spending time on the floor, in order to develop pragmatic understanding of the business and operational solutions
• Advanced Excel Skills

Personal Attributes:

• Able to drive your mission in full autonomy and responsibility, not waiting for outside input, always going the extra-mile, pleased to think out of the box
• Excellent non-hierarchical relation skills
• Team player, Strong Curiosity, Ability to learn and work independently
• Ability to plan, multi-task and manage time effectively
• Self-confident and hardworking

Experience:

• Operational Retail experience such as store manager or category manager is welcome
• Finance or accounting (Auditor) experience could also be an advantage
• Of course, if you already had a similar role, you are more than welcome