Commercial Finance Manager

In this very hands on role, you will business partner and support trading, sales and field functions - you will be working within a fast paced and dynamic environment, managing a wide network of commercial and operational stakeholders.

You will be responsible for understanding and driving improvements in the commercial performance, stimulating strategic decision making, driving financial discipline, processes and accountability and supporting in delivery of organisations strategic plans.

Responsibilities include:

• Collaborate with the operational teams to build business cases and critically evaluate proposals for capital spend on projects such as store format redesign, changes to product flow, radio frequency tagging
• Produce effective post investment appraisal on trials and capex spend
• Drive analytics at a site/regional level using tools
• Develop best practice for understanding commercial performance vs. control stores
• Identify opportunities to reduce costs and increase visibility of spend on areas
• Strengthen performance management across the P&L through improved forecast accuracy building robust business plans

Requirements:

• Strong analytical capabilities coupled with successful business partnering, identifying issues/opportunities and obtaining mutual agreement as to the resolution and implement changes
• Ability to build and maintain exceptional relationships
• Proactive with the ability to challenge and influence senior stakeholders
• Good commercial awareness
• Ability to effectively prioritise and manage workload, meeting tight deadlines
• Be CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualified
• Intermediate to Advanced Excel