Commercial Finance Lead

Just Eat Takeaway.com; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the food delivery sector seeks a Finance Business Partner for the UK Grocery team. This hands-on role involves leading financial efforts to drive trading performance and continuous business improvement within a high-growth area. Ideal candidates will have strong data skills and be adept at financial modelling, with a passion for optimising performance in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years PQE in finance.
• Experience in the Grocery/Retail sector is preferable.
• Ability to work with unstructured data.

Responsibilities

• Drive trading performance and business improvement for the UK Grocery team.
• Lead forecasting and reporting efforts with deep commercial analysis.
• Champion development of commercial initiatives and programs.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Data analysis

Strategic thinking

Education

CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualification

Tools

Excel

Financial modelling

Job description

Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role

As a key player in our Commercial Finance team, you will be the lead Finance business partner to the UK Grocery team, a primary growth area of our business, to drive trading performance and continuous business improvement. In this dynamic, hands-on role, you will lead forecasting and reporting efforts, providing deep commercial analysis that will drive the success of our rapidly expanding Grocery division.

You will thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment, leveraging strong data skills and commercial acumen to manage and optimise P&L performance. Collaborating with a diverse range of stakeholders — from data-driven digital specialists to marketing experts — you will proactively challenge them with data-driven insights, supporting strategic decision-making and driving business performance.

These are some of the key ingredients to the role:

• Lead Finance business partner to the UK Grocery Commercial Director & Grocery Sales team to challenge and inspire them to drive business performance with innovative, efficient, and cost-effective strategies.
• Proactively drive the Grocery leadership's focus on the upcoming trading outlook, generating recommendations and supporting creative ideas to mitigate risks and capitalise on opportunities in this high-growth area.
• Champion the development, implementation, and management of commercial initiatives and programs, not only framing financial impacts but also business logic, encouraging cross-functional collaboration to drive an optimal go-to-market strategy and ensuring a strong and effective control environment.
• Lead in the review of business cases to ensure robust calculation and commercial logic, challenging and refining assumptions, and ensuring financial/commercial risks are clearly understood to guide the business toward optimal trading decisions.
• Analyse and report objectively on campaign performance metrics, translating between business and financial performance to drive continuous improvement and strategic planning for future success.
• Spearhead the planning and forecasting of KPIs and expenditures for the Grocery team, setting ambitious targets that align with, and drive, the overall strategic vision for this key growth area.
• Identify and drive enhancements in the scope and depth of reporting across key metrics for the Grocery division to provide actionable insights.

What will you bring to the table?

• Qualified with CIMA/ACCA/ACA, 5-7 years PQE
• Experience in the Grocery/Retail sector is preferable
• Strong in Excel and financial modelling
• A confident self-starter with the ability to think strategically
• Enjoys working with data and comfortable dealing with messy unstructured data
• Understands how to automate repetitive problems and tasks, focusing on optimisation
• Deliver reports, analysis and insights that drive operational excellence
• Team player with good interpersonal and communications skills

At JET, this is on the menu:

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.

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Created on 25/06/2025 by TN United Kingdom