Commercial Finance Manager

This is a highly commercial position focused on owning P&Ls, delivering insightful analysis on sales, stock, and margin, and partnering with key teams to influence strategic decisions. You’ll lead reporting transformation, improve processes through automation, and support budgeting, forecasting, and investment appraisal in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. Ideal for a qualified finance professional with strong commercial acumen, a passion for efficiency, and the ability to turn complex data into clear business insights.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Commercial P&L Ownership: Manage the end-to-end commercial P&Ls for Digital, Channel, and Partner portfolios, working closely with accounting teams to challenge and understand month-end actuals.
• Budgeting & Reforecasting: Support the annual budget and periodic reforecast process, ensuring all channel-specific assumptions are robust and commercially grounded.
• Operational & DC Finance: Own the budgeting for Digital and B2B carriage costs, mastering the volume/rate drivers and modelling resource requirements for agency staff within our Distribution Centre.
• Reporting Transformation: Own weekly and monthly commercial reporting on stock, sales, and margin. Actively work with transformation and data science teams to improve outputs, reducing time spent on data "churn" in favour of analysis.
• Strategic Support: Partner with Digital and Performance Marketing teams to challenge sales forecasts, margin assumptions, and ROAS targets by channel and market.
• Investment Appraisal: Support senior leadership with business casing and scenario modelling for new initiatives, appraising potential investments for profitability impact.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR (SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS)

• Post-qualified experience (PQE) in a commercial finance role, ideally within a fast-paced Retail or FMCG environment.
• Qualifications: Must be ACA or CIMA qualified.
• Commercial Mindset: Ideally commercially minded with the ability to proactively challenge and understand the data in front of them to drive business performance.
• Efficiency Focused: A natural problem-solver who dislikes manual data entry and is always looking for a "better way" to get to the answer through automation and process improvement.
• Communication: Proven ability to translate complex commercial P&Ls and financial data into meaningful insights for non-finance stakeholders across the business.

You’ll be part of a collaborative, values-driven team that prioritises customer focus, accountability, and shared success. In return, you’ll benefit from a competitive package including generous holiday allowance, employee discounts, wellbeing support, hybrid working, and enhanced family leave.