Hybrid FP&A Leader: Margin, Pricing & Forecasting

Distinct | B Corp; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Circa £100,000 base salary

20% bonus

Up to 10% matched pension

Private healthcare

Income protection and life cover

Flexitime

Travel to London a couple of times a月

Job summary

Distinct | B Corp in the East Midlands is recruiting a Head of Commercial Finance to lead the commercial finance function for a growing retail business. The role is hands-on from day one, with plans to build a team over time and close collaboration with senior leadership to drive margin improvement and stock optimisation.

The successful candidate will own margin reporting, pricing analysis, and post-promotion ROI frameworks, while leading forecasting for sales, margin and stock and presenting to

Qualifications

• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified
• Hands on experience of pricing, margin analysis and inventory
• Experience partnering commercial or retail teams
• Confident influencing and challenging senior stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Partner the commercial and retail teams with financial insight and constructive challenge
• Owning gross margin and contribution reporting, including margin bridges and price, volume and mix analysis
• Building post promotion analysis and ROI frameworks to improve future promotional decisions
• Tracking stock levels, ageing, sell through and stock cover, and finding ways to free up cash
• Leading commercial forecasting for sales, margin and stock, and supporting the budget and long range planning
• Building business cases and presenting to the exec team and the Board
• Improving reporting and automation through Power BI

Skills

Commercial finance

FP&A

Business partnering

Pricing

Margin analysis

Inventory

Education

ACCA/ACCA/CIMA qualified

Tools

Power BI

Job description

Distinct | B Corp in the East Midlands is recruiting a Head of Commercial Finance to lead the commercial finance function for a growing retail business. The role is hands-on from day one, with plans to build a team over time and close collaboration with senior leadership to drive margin improvement and stock optimisation.

The successful candidate will own margin reporting, pricing analysis, and post-promotion ROI frameworks, while leading forecasting for sales, margin and stock and presenting to