Senior Finance Manager

Senior Group Finance Manager - Retail - Central London - 6 months
Looking for a commercially focused, engaging and charismatic Commercial Group Finance Manager to work for an international retailer.
Set in an exciting, faced paced environment the ideal candidate for this role will be tasked with building relationships and business partnering across the whole organisation. This job ideally needs someone with some retail experience who has a forward-thinking and ambitious attitude.
Key Responsibilities include:

• Produce high profile weekly trading packs accurately and to close deadlines
• Proactively developing and maintain trading reports as required to assist the business
• Development and maintain a strong working relationship with other parts of the Finance community - including other teams within Group Finance
• Consolidation of the brand's monthly profit forecasts, ensuring timeliness, completeness, and accuracy
• Produce monthly Board Papers and provide executive summary papers
• Dealing with ad-hoc queries / projects from Brand finance teams and Senior Management

Ideal Candidate:

• Commercial drive, passion and commitment to delivering change through actions and influence
• Proactive and driven to take initiative to improve processes across the business
• A desire to develop others and support the broader finance team
• ACA/ACCA/CIMA or international equivalent qualification
• Retail experience (desirable)
• 3+ years in related financial role
• Excellent Excel & Access skills
• A team based professional attitude
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills - able to deal with all levels and to maintain excellent relationships with Brand finance teams