Alexander Daniels Finance Recruitment
Commercial Finance Manager
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12 Month Fixed Term Contract
This is a 12 month fixed term contract, based 50% in Birmingham and 50% from home. You'll need to be available on short notice for this role, with a view to start in September.
Commercial Finance Manager
Commercial Finance Manager required for a superb retail business based in central Birmingham, West Midlands. This position will see you join a truly commercial team responsible for analysis of brand-wide sales, marketing and pricing decisions, including customer profitability and margin analysis.
Responsibilities
As the Commercial Finance Manager, you'll be primarily responsible for:
- Responsible for forecasting (margins and pricing) and supplying analysis to the finance leadership team
- Using commercial results and analysis to update budgets and forecasts as required, and to inform commercial strategies and business plans
- Business partnering finance and non-finance team members to enact commercial strategies
- Analysing competitor pricing data, and using internal margin reporting to inform pricing decisions across a large base of SKUs
- Collaboration with the marketing teams to help build promotional strategies
- Challenging operators across multiple retail brands where necessary, and influencing their activities
- Attending meetings regularly with the product managers to establish new product offerings, and making promotional/pricing decisions based on sales and margin data
- Any other ad hoc project work to support the wider finance and commercial teams
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This is a truly exciting commercially-geared role with zero month end reporting. You'll be working with some amazing people and your team is led by a fantastic manager. This role is paying up to £66,000 plus bonus and excellent benefits.
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Requirements
The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant with significant experience in commercial finance, though QBE or finalists are invited to apply if they have an exceptionally relevant background.
You will need high commercial astuteness, able to place yourself in customers' shoes to make commercial decisions that drive performance and profitability. You'll also need to be an effective business partner, able to challenge and influence at all levels of seniority.
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