I work within Commercial Finance at Wickes, providing business partner support to the Kitchen, Bathroom and Decorative teams.
My role involves helping with budgeting and reforecasting, providing analysis on sales and margin performance, and providing support on building business cases. The role is very varied as I support our Showroom Kitchen and Bathroom business, which covers a fairly extensive end to end process. There’s never a dull moment!
I’ve been working at Wickes for almost a year, but I started work at Deloitte, after graduating, where I worked for 5 years, which is where I gained my ACA qualification. Most of my time there was within Audit but I did have a year in Corporate Tax, providing advice and compliance services to Financial Services clients. I then moved to Barclays, where I had various business partner roles within the Retail Bank. I left there in May 2016 as I was looking for a new role that would develop and challenge me whilst being closer to home. Wickes ticked all those boxes!
Every day starts with me reviewing the previous days sales and margin
performance. After that, (although a cliché) I can honestly say that every
day is different. My role is very varied; I could be working on business cases, analysing promotions, working on month-end or forecasts: the list
goes on!
What I love about my job is the people and the diverse nature of my role.
People here are really friendly, it’s great to be somewhere that you can
work hard and be challenged whilst being around fun and engaging
people. The working environment at Wickes is also great. Everyone is
welcoming and supportive; people are more than willing to take time out
to explain things and answer questions. I would say that the culture is
what makes it a great place to work; there is a very engaged workforce,
people work collaboratively and in the best interests of the business.
If you’re thinking about joining Wickes, my advice would
be to be prepared to push yourself and not be afraid to ask questions.
Have the mindset of getting stuck in and getting 100% involved.
