Senior Commercial Finance Manager

Senior Commercial Finance Manager

FTSE 100 Retailer

£70,000 - £85,000 + bonus & benefits

Hybrid 3 days office / 2 wfh pw

Central London

MUST BE IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE / WITHIN c1 MONTH

Responsibility:

• Take responsibility for management reporting, producing annual budgets and forecasting cycles, and ad hoc analysis and modelling for strategic decision making.
• Ownership of the integrated business planning model, ensuring integrity of P&L, Balance Sheet and Cashflow, and implementing improvements over time.
• Business partnering across the business to aid commercial decision making at the highest levels.
• To be the cashflow expert of the commercial finance function - both forward and backwards looking.
• Track and drive performance of Investment Projects.
• Provide the FD and CFO with a monthly performance pack containing analysis of the business unit performance.
• Production of the monthly board report to Group, and maintenance of monthly financial model.
• Involvement in many ad-hoc business initiatives; providing commercial challenges and analytical support.
• Improving the commerciality and financial awareness of non-finance teams.
• Provide support to MD, FD and Director of Commercial Finance on ad-hoc projects and tasks, as required.

About You:

• Qualified Accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA)

• Retail and E-Commerce Commercial experience (Essential)

• Stakeholder Management - Manage and influence stakeholders

• Franchise experience - highly desirable

• Multi-site and multi-departmental experience preferred

• Advanced Excel Skills

• Business Partnering - Cross functional experience, partnering to develop and align reporting, KPIs & analysis (Excellent)

• An expert communicator and confident explaining complicated models to non-finance people