Finance Business Manager - Cost to serve Argos
Argos · London
Location: London, Coventry or Manchester Store Support Centre & Home – colleagues go into the office 1-2 days per week on average.
Why join us
Join our team at Argos as a Finance Business Manager EPT (Cost to Serve) and immerse yourself in a dynamic environment where your expertise in profitability measures and cost-to-serve principles will play a crucial role in driving informed decision-making. As a key link between Finance, Commercial, and engineering teams, you will have the opportunity to lead the business definition of EPT, ensuring clear requirements and methodologies are translated effectively to support the delivery of impactful outcomes. With a focus on collaboration, innovation, and effective communication, this role offers a platform for you to make a tangible difference and drive meaningful change within a supportive and forward-thinking organisation.
What you'll do
As the Finance Business Manager EPT (Cost to Serve) at Argos, you will play a crucial role in owning and defining the business and Finance aspects of EPT, ensuring profitability measures, cost pools, allocation drivers, and assumptions are clearly articulated and approved. You will serve as the key liaison between Finance, Commercial, and engineering teams, translating business requirements into precise data requirements to ensure that EPT outputs accurately reflect the intended methodology and support well-informed decision-making. Working across various teams, you will coordinate requirements, user testing, Finance sign-off, and backlog priorities, while elucidating profitability movements, clarifying limitations, and promoting effective utilisation of EPT across the organisation. Your role will involve providing clear business ownership and decision-making for EPT changes, maintaining alignment among stakeholders, and ensuring documentation of methodology, business rules, and approvals for transparency and consistency.
Who you are
As a Finance Business Manager EPT (Cost to Serve) for Argos, you are a strategic and detail-oriented professional with a deep understanding of retail operating P & L, profitability, and cost-to-serve principles. Your ability to translate complex Finance and business requirements into clear documentation, communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders, and analyse profitability movements sets you apart. With a strong focus on building relationships, aligning cross-functional teams, and providing clear business ownership, you play a pivotal role in driving informed decision-making and ensuring the alignment of Finance, Commercial, and engineering teams towards achieving desired outcomes and priorities.
Essential Criteria
- Demonstrable knowledge of retail profit and loss management, profitability measures, cost-to-serve principles, cost allocation methodologies and commercial performance drivers.
- Proven experience translating finance and business requirements into documented business rules, functional requirements and testable acceptance criteria for technology or data solutions.
- Experience coordinating user acceptance testing, reconciling outputs against agreed requirements, and securing formal business or finance approval for system or process changes.
- Demonstrable ability to analyse profitability performance and identify the impact of trading activity, allocation methodologies, data changes and business assumptions on financial outputs.
- Proven experience working across finance, commercial and technical stakeholders to prioritise requirements, maintain delivery backlogs and achieve agreement on business outcomes and priorities.