Commercial Finance Manager - 12-month fixed term contract

We’re a fast-moving, ambitious and growing organisation with over 250 employees based across the world. Our Global Finance team is based in the UK with financial planning a key business priority, our Commercial Finance team focuses on delivering a forward-looking and commercial pro-active plan to manage our business including EBITDA triggers, value drivers, margin and modelling - leading commercial thinking in everything we do.

We’re looking for a Commercial Finance Manager to support the financial planning and decision-making in our business. You’ll understand, analyse, and interpret business requirements and needs, liaising with key stakeholders to ensure that deliverables meet the needs of both internal departments and end users.

You'll be analytical (of course) and proactive, able to think outside the box, to support the business in delivering its strategic objectives. You’ll have fantastic communication and influencing skills with the ability to work in a rapidly changing environment as we grow, scale and optimize for success.

The Responsibilities:

• Preparing robust budgets and forecasts, working closely with the business to support and challenge their submissions to finance across all OPEX areas (Marketing, People (HR), Property, Product, Digital, Technology, Professional Fees, T&E)
• Variance analysis of actuals vs forecasts, including investigating why variances have occurred and communicating risks & opportunities
• Business partnering – we want you to be embedded in the business and at the right hand of your stakeholders, supporting them to make the right decisions from a commercial & financial standpoint every time.
• Manage weekly and monthly reporting and standardised tools that work for stakeholders across the business
• You’ll work with BI on our reporting tool, to develop automated insight reports to help the business track, understand and drive performance
• We are lucky enough to have a finance team that is all in one place. We want our commercial finance time to be the bridge between the business and our management accounts team, who keep our accounting ship-shape. You’ll develop strong relationships across finance and keep channels of communication open, so that we are reporting accurately and avoiding ‘surprises’
• Assist in implementation of NetSuite
• Management and development of a Commercial Finance analyst
• Leading month end process accruals, posting payroll, reconciliations and producing monthly report packs for stakeholders
• Produce bi-monthly cashflow inputs for Financial model

The Person:

• Experience of working in a commercial finance function for a retail business. A working understanding of different business models (wholesale, distributor, B2C) would be a benefit but not essential
• You’ll be super-analytical, a ‘whizz’ with data and numbers and be able to use this to influence, challenge and support commercial decisions and spot new business opportunities
• You’ll be a great communicator; enjoying collaborating cross-functionally and with all levels just as much as you enjoy a good colour-coded spreadsheet
• Comfortable building relationships with stakeholders across the business, and confident challenging when required
• Proactive, curious and focused, you’ll want to make an impact and will ask questions, pull information and bring the right people along with you
• Experience using BI reporting tools (e.g., Tableau)
• Advanced Excel is essential for this position
• Happy working in a fast paced and changing environment
• Qualified accountant with PQE is advantageous

The Benefits:

• 👟 Product Allowance
• ⏰ Hybrid and flexible working hours
• ☀️ Summer Fridays (6 ½ days in July and August on Fridays)
• 🎂 A day off for your Birthday
• 🌴 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays
• 🗺️ Work from anywhere for 2 weeks
• 🚼️ WorkPlace Nursery (salary sacrifice scheme to save money on your nursery fees)
• 💆‍♀️ Wellbeing Program – Retail Trust, Sanctus Coaching and Calm App
• 📚 Career development allowance ( Personal allowance to use on career development)
• 🏥 Private health care and or dental care (provided by AXA and DenPlan
• 🤩 Socials organised by Wellbeing and Feel Good group
• ➡️ Check out our careers page to learn more!