Senior Finance Manager - Clothing & Home Commercial Finance
- Recruiter
- Marks Sattin FS
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 20 Nov 2020
- Closes
- 05 Dec 2020
- Ref
- 3475M
- Job role
- Accountant
- Sector
- Accounting - Public practice
- Experience level
- Manager
Job Description:
Summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Finance Manager in the Clothing & Home Commercial Finance team. This team is crucial in supporting the business unit to navigate not only the current challenges but also looking ahead and influencing the future strategic direction of the business. We are looking for a commercial and experienced finance professional who is able to hit the ground running and drive clear impactful insight and support profitable decision making.
This role business partners the trading leadership team in C&H, acting as the 'eyes and ears' of finance within the business unit and responsible for driving profitable decision making. You will have financial ownership for the business unit, supporting the business to achieve its profit, stock and cash targets. To be successful in the role you will need to work as a commercial and strategic business partner, looking at the big picture to deliver insight across both long-term planning and day to day trading.
About the Role
Your key responsibilities include:
About you
Your skills and experience include:
Summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Finance Manager in the Clothing & Home Commercial Finance team. This team is crucial in supporting the business unit to navigate not only the current challenges but also looking ahead and influencing the future strategic direction of the business. We are looking for a commercial and experienced finance professional who is able to hit the ground running and drive clear impactful insight and support profitable decision making.
This role business partners the trading leadership team in C&H, acting as the 'eyes and ears' of finance within the business unit and responsible for driving profitable decision making. You will have financial ownership for the business unit, supporting the business to achieve its profit, stock and cash targets. To be successful in the role you will need to work as a commercial and strategic business partner, looking at the big picture to deliver insight across both long-term planning and day to day trading.
About the Role
Your key responsibilities include:
- Owning the P&L for the trading area, acting as a trusted business partner supporting the business to grow profitably
- Delivering insightful financial analysis on trading performance, adding value through interpreting and analysing data
- Understanding key sales, margin and profitability drivers and pro-actively undertake analysis to support driving profitable sales and maximise margin
- Identifying trends and insight that will be key to the future success of the business unit
- Providing financial support on key strategic programmes, driving challenge and insight.
- Improving the gross profit return on stock investment, making sure stock holdings are aligned to forward plans
- Owning all forecast, Budget and 3YP outputs, delivering insight to the leadership team into strategic initiatives, key assumptions and risk and opportunities within the plan
- Ensuring strong financial control across the trading, planning and forecasting processes.
About you
Your skills and experience include:
- Qualified accountant with commercial finance experience
- Relevant consumer industry experience (Retail or FMCG)
- Demonstrable experience of supporting growth through financial management
- Ability to communicate with impact to senior management, business stakeholders and other finance teams
- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills
- A quick learner, who is enthusiastic, and solution driven
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