Commercial Finance Manager

JDEMEA; Bury; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global omni-channel retailer is seeking a Commercial Finance Manager for Central Europe. This role involves leading financial analysis, budgeting, and forecasting, while collaborating with various finance teams. The ideal candidate will be CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualified with significant experience in a commercial finance setting and the ability to influence stakeholders effectively.

Benefits

Staff Discount On JD Group and other brands

Personal development opportunities

Qualifications

• 2 years PQE in a commercial finance role is essential.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders, both financial and non-financial.
• Positive, flexible, enthusiastic and driven.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Budgeting and Forecasting process for the region.
• Provide regular Sales analysis and reporting.
• Manage one direct report and support their professional development.

Skills

Advanced Excel skills

Attention to detail

Ability to work under pressure

Flexibility to adapt

Education

CIMA / ACCA / ACA Qualified Accountant

Tools

TM1

Job description

Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with our colleagues working in stores across several retail fascias in many markets around the world.

JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally.

We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.

Commercial Finance Manager - Central Europe

Responsible to: Head of Commercial Finance Europe

Department: Finance

Location: JD Group Head Office, Bury, BL9 8RR

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

As the Central Europe Commercial Finance Manager, your responsibilities will include all commercial analysis, budgeting & forecasting for multiple companies across the region. You will be the lead Commercial Finance contact for multiple business stakeholders in your region, helping to them to understand trends, drivers and future projections on performance, and how they impact the financial performance. You will work collaboratively across different Finance teams including Supply Chain Finance, Reporting Finance, Group FP&A and Group Tax. You will also work closely with the Head of Commercial Finance for Europe to deliver on wider Europe objectives. You will manage one direct report, and as a team you will deliver team objectives while you support their professional development. There will be periodic travel involved into Europe on an adhoc basis.

• You will lead the Budgeting and Forecasting process for your region
• You will lead presentations of financial information, highlighting risks and opportunities to plan.
• Regular Sales analysis and reporting - providing insight to underlying key drivers of performance
• Support Payroll analysis and reporting - providing insight to good / bad performance, and supporting improvement
• Analyse costs across your businesses and surface opportunities to improve operating profit margin
• Responsible for ensuring the integrity of time and attendance systems and associated reporting and including any implementation of new time and attendance systems.
• Longer term growth forecasting and analysis to support the Group's strategic growth plans across Europe
• Quickly develop and deliver new analysis to help stakeholders understand changes in the businesses' environment
• Input into Cashflow forecasting process to support
• Support Property Finance team on new store investment appraisals
• Support Reporting team to deliver clear and robust reporting and analysis
• Understand commercial retail context allowing review of store and multichannel operational performance
• Ability to work with stakeholders across different levels and different countries
• Manage one direct report and support their professional development

Skills/Experience/Knowledge Needed:

• CIMA / ACCA / ACA Qualified Accountant - with 2 years PQE in a commercial finance role is essential.
• Experience with working alongside and influencing multiple senior stakeholders; both financial and non-financial
• Advanced Excel skills, TM1 experience not essential but an advantage
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Positive, flexible, enthusiastic and driven.
• Flexibility to be able to adapt to a fast pace of change

We know our colleagues work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits including staff Discount On JD Group and other brands within the organisation and personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.

Thank you for your time

#JD

Other details

• Job Family Head Office Lead
• Pay Type Salary
• Employment Indicator Permanent
• Job Start Date 27 March 2025

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