Commercial Finance Manager - Retail & Property

Monsoon; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Commercial Finance Manager to lead financial strategies and enhance profitability across UK Retail. In this pivotal role, you will collaborate with various teams to deliver insightful performance analysis, identify risks and opportunities, and drive the budgeting process. You will lead a small team, ensuring accurate financial routines and reporting. This role offers a competitive salary, a generous benefits package, and a flexible working approach, making it an exciting opportunity for those passionate about finance in a retail environment.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Company Bonus Scheme

25 Days Holiday

Pension Enrollment

Life Assurance

Flexible Working

Early Pay Day Finish

Generous Staff Discount

Interest-Free Season Ticket Loans

Campus Discounts

Qualifications

• Qualified in CIMA, ACA, or ACCA with commercial finance experience.
• Strong Excel skills and analytical abilities are essential.

Responsibilities

• Partner with teams to ensure strong financial understanding.
• Drive forecasting and budgeting processes for UK Retail.

Skills

Commercial Finance Experience

Excellent Communication

Analytical Skills

Attention to Detail

Excel Skills

Proactive Team Player

Education

CIMA

ACA

ACCA

Tools

Coda

Cognos

Job description

What will you do as a Commercial Finance Manager?

• Partner and communicate effectively with the Property team & Retail Director/RBMs to ensure the Finance team has a strong understanding of Property Activities and UK Retail Operations.
• Deliver insightful performance of UK Retail. Identify risks, opportunities, and challenge the teams to ensure targets are delivered, improving overall Sales and Profitability across the channel.
• Attend weekly property board meetings as well as pre-board preparation meetings with the brand/retail and property teams to fully assess any new store opportunities. Offer an appropriate level of challenge and support to ensure business cases are robust and complete.
• Drive forecast and budgeting process for UK Retail & Property including:

1. Agreeing assumptions in advance of detailed work, to include key cost areas like NMW and Energy assumptions.
2. Assessing risks & opportunities to the numbers presented.
3. Setting up modelling/scenario analysis to assess sensitivity to numbers presented.

Work with the Retail Analyst to ensure monthly routines are completed and reviewed in a timely and accurate way:

1. Period end: Store costs, property costs, and retail team overheads.
2. Monthly board pack analysis.
3. Balance Sheet reconciliations.
4. Cashflow forecast for occupancy costs.

Ad hoc

• Ad hoc requests as and when required, including wider commercial finance tasks outside of just stores analysis.

Team

• Lead and develop one direct report (Retail Finance Analyst) and work with the Head of Commercial Finance to develop and engage in wider finance team development.

What you will need to succeed as a Commercial Finance Manager?

• Qualified (CIMA, ACA, or ACCA) with commercial finance experience.
• Proactive, resilient, adaptable, and “can-do” team player with a drive to make a difference.
• Excellent communication – ability to articulate orally and in writing complex and detailed information in an easy-to-understand manner to all levels of the business.
• Attention to detail, highly analytical, and comfortable dealing with large datasets/advanced modelling.
• Ability to deliver with a flexible approach when required.
• Strong Excel and System skills.

Desired

• Experience in Retail/consumer-facing industry environment.
• Experience of reporting systems (Coda, Cognos).

What will we offer you in return?

• Competitive salary with the ability to participate in the Company bonus scheme.
• 25 days holiday with the option to purchase additional holiday through our salary sacrifice scheme.
• Bonus day off each year after 6 months service.
• A pension that you will automatically be enrolled in after 3 months.
• Life assurance (subject to participating in the pension scheme).
• A flexible working approach.
• Early pay day Friday finish.
• A generous staff discount with up to 50% discount on our products.
• Interest-free season ticket loans.
• Campus discounts including new wellness centre and on-site independent cafe.
• Additional discounts such as Westfield discount.

If this all sounds great and you feel you are who we are looking for, let us know and apply today.

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