Senior Commercial Finance Manager

Are you a Commercial Finance Business partner with a passion for Food?

We are working with a FTSE 100 Retailer on a great opportunity - a Senior Commercial Finance Manager role partnering a key trading category.

This role puts you at the heart of the business; influencing strategy, supplier negotiations, pricing, and daily commercial decisions. If you love working at pace and having an impact, this is one for you! Leading a team of three, you will own...

• Drive the end-to-end financial performance, taking accountability for the P&L, balance sheet and controls.
• Utilise data and analytics to provide insight that challenges the status quo and creates value
• Use critical thinking to join the dots and spot areas of opportunity or risk
• Assess the performance of strategic initiatives
• Track & influence inflation impacts, work with the buying team on commodities and the suppliers, ensuring you pay the right prices to suppliers and identifying areas of opportunity for pricing in store
• Develop and manage Joint Business Plans
• Advise on usage of space, price and promotional activity
• Track and influence events management, ensuring rigour around buys, advising on strategy and overall P&L impact.
• Drive a cash mindset within the commercial teams, with a focus on stock and working capital management
• Work with the Commercial teams to build and review Budgets and Forecasts

• Analyse and track weekly and monthly Commercial performance
• Support in the delivery of Month end and Quarter end reporting by sharing Commercial insights
• Work with the SSC and Reporting & Analytics teams to optimise reporting capability
• Support the delivery of significant improvements in Finance capability by participating in programmes and initiatives to build capability across the team

• Work with the SSC to optimise and improve processes that impact Commercial Finance
• Ensure that Commercial Risks are understood and clear action plans in place to mitigate
• Support in developing processes around pricing governance

• Commercial Business Partnering experience in a Retail or FMCG environment
• Experience and/or understanding of sales to gross profit is essential
• Ability to communicate with high impact to senior management and business stakeholders
• Strong leadership experience (you'll have a team of 3 including 2 managers)
• Quick learner, enthusiastic and solution-driven
• Qualified Accountant – CIMA/ACCA/ACA/CA, with at least 5 years PQE

Based in London - 3 days in the office.

This is a wonderful role, great team, great business - interviews will kick off in early Jan so get in touch if you'd like to hear more.

Please note - due to the expected volume of applications, we are only able to respond to candidates whose experience fits the above.