Commercial Finance Manager Hub

Lifestyle Brands (the LSB) is a growing house of like-minded brands under the SC Johnson umbrella including Method®, Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day®, Babyganics® and Ecover®. Headquartered in San Francisco with additional operations in Chicago and throughout Europe, the LSB is home to 650 employees. Together we act as a force for bold, transformative growth with a focus on delivering positive impact for people and the planet.

If you’re into pioneering the future and doing good while doing business, come join us. The LSB is part of SC Johnson, a family-owned company and leading manufacturer of household cleaning, home storage, air care, pest control and shoe care products, as well as professional products. Originally founded in 1886 and headquartered in Wisconsin, U.S.A., SC Johnson and the Lifestyle Brands division are at work for a better world.

Commercial Finance Manager - UK Hub Internal title:
Associate Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis

Location:

Frimley Contract type:
Full time People Leader:
Head of Finance P&A Function: FP&A Manager Please note this role is not eligible for relocation. Remote work is available once per week for eligible employees. If you are looking for a new challenge in Finance and you are interested in being the main Finance Business Partner for Sales and Marketing, we are waiting for you!

• Competitive pay & benefits
• Flexible working hours + Summer hours
• ‘Build your own’ learning programme
• Free breakfast & snacks
• 25 days annual holiday
• Pension, Life cover & Health Insurance
• Volunteering days
• Season ticket loan
• Wellness days

We’re looking for a numbers‑guru, someone passionate about business partnering and providing financial insights. As we see the world differently and do things differently, we are looking for someone to challenge the status quo and provide thought leadership to improve our decision making. You will be the right-hand person to the UK Hub Leader and Head of FP&A, a sparring partner to drive the business forward to achieve the seemingly impossible!

• Bring your personality to our LSB team.
• Live and breathe the values of LSB and care for your colleagues.
• Work in partnership with the UK leadership team, establishing strong relationships with and the wider UK sales teams and Brand teams.
• Provide visibility to regional UK team via weekly, and monthly reporting, and pioneer the future by creating tools to enhance financial clarity and decision‑making that is accurate, clear, and actionable.
• Lead all aspects of the monthly and quarterly financial forecast process as well as annual budgeting for the regional hub, determining drivers of risk and opportunity versus the operating plan.
• Partner closely within the S&O cycle to ensure financial alignment, challenge assumptions, and support effective decision‑making.
• Deliver sound, strategic, and actionable course correcting recommendations to the respective leadership teams.
• Ensure spending is in line with budget or revised forecast expectations.
• For all key decisions within the region (product/customer portfolio, promotion/pricing, cost savings actions, investments), provide credible financial modelling and influence the business with continuous guidance and advice on methods to improve, or maximize the financial opportunity of those considerations.
• Lead the UK region month end P&L close, ensuring accuracy of the UK region monthly P&L.
• Work closely with the sales and brand team to accurately capture all trade spend and brand spend activities ensuring no financially material surprises.
• Including ownership of the UK trade spend balance sheet reconciliations to allow for review of trade spend positions aligned with Review trade spends and brand activities ensuring that we are getting adequate ROI for the spend (recommendation our how best the region should be spending the money).
• Relentlessly pursue opportunities to enhance processes, improve forecast accuracy, assess risks, and drive urgency across the organization to maximize Net Sales, Delivered Profit Margin, and Operating Profit.
• Partner with wider LSB finance team in assessing other sales and general admin costs for the UK, the monthly…