Senior Commercial Finance Manager
- Recruiter
- Marks Sattin
- Location
- England, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough
- Salary
- £60000 - £68000 per annum
- Posted
- 14 Jan 2017
- Closes
- 21 Jan 2017
- Ref
- MS14012017
- Contact
- Matt Taylor
- Job Title
- Finance Business Partner
- Category
- Consumer products / FMCG
- Experience Levels
- Manager
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
My client, a key player in the FMCG arena is seeking a Senior Commercial Finance Manager to provide an effective partnering service to the Head of Sales in decision-making on investment and priority decisions across the brand, customers and channels. Reporting directly to the Finance director, the role-holder will provide insight on current performance issues and challenges and drive improvement actions across the commercial team.
Key Duties as Senior Commercial Finance Manager include:
* Drive decision support to the commercial team and supporting marketing in commercial justifications. Evaluating and modelling pricing and marketing strategies alongside range reviews
* Providing support and understanding of the financials of the sector and challenge performance and strategy
* Manage the commercial accounting team providing development opportunities alongside delivering to KPI's
* Ensure financial controls are sustained across functions and Management Information is provided to the business
* Ensure robust control process on all customer investment transactions with appropriate reporting
* Coordinate commercial budgeting and forecasting to identify challenges and build gap-filling action plans
* Support Marketing Team on CAM decisions and trade marketing budget management
* Support Innovation team with scenarios, decision support and tracking including post-evaluation
* Pre and post-evaluation of promotional investment
A basic salary of up to £68,000 plus benefits is on offer for the position of Senior Commercial Finance Manager.
To be considered for this exciting role of Senior Commercial Finance Manager, candidates must have a minimum of 2 years post qualified experience ideally in an FMCG or Manufacturing business