Are you a Commercial Finance Business partner with a passion for Food? We are working with a FTSE 100 Retailer on a great opportunity - a Senior Commercial Finance Manager role partnering a key trading category. This role puts you at the heart of the business; influencing strategy, supplier negotiations, pricing, and daily commercial decisions. If you love working at pace and having an impact, this is one for you! Leading a team of three, you will own... Business Partnering

Drive the end-to-end financial performance, taking accountability for the P&L, balance sheet and controls. Utilise data and analytics to provide insight that challenges the status quo and creates value Use critical thinking to join the dots and spot areas of opportunity or risk Assess the performance of strategic initiatives Track & influence inflation impacts, work with the buying team on commodities and the suppliers, ensuring you pay the right prices to suppliers and identifying areas of opportunity for pricing in store Develop and manage Joint Business Plans Advise on usage of space, price and promotional activity Track and influence events management, ensuring rigour around buys, advising on strategy and overall P&L impact. Drive a cash mindset within the commercial teams, with a focus on stock and working capital management Work with the Commercial teams to build and review Budgets and Forecasts

Commercial Insights & Analysis

Analyse and track weekly and monthly Commercial performance Support in the delivery of Month end and Quarter end reporting by sharing Commercial insights Work with the SSC and Reporting & Analytics teams to optimise reporting capability Support the delivery of significant improvements in Finance capability by participating in programmes and initiatives to build capability across the team

Ensure Robust Governance Processes in place across Commercial

Work with the SSC to optimise and improve processes that impact Commercial Finance Ensure that Commercial Risks are understood and clear action plans in place to mitigate Support in developing processes around pricing governance

Who are we looking for?

Commercial Business Partnering experience in a Retail or FMCG environment Experience and/or understanding of sales to gross profit is essential Ability to communicate with high impact to senior management and business stakeholders Strong leadership experience (you'll have a team of 3 including 2 managers) Quick learner, enthusiastic and solution-driven Qualified Accountant – CIMA/ACCA/ACA/CA, with at least 5 years PQE

Based in London - 3 days in the office. This is a wonderful role, great team, great business - interviews will kick off in early Jan so get in touch if you'd like to hear more. Please note - due to the expected volume of applications, we are only able to respond to candidates whose experience fits the above. #J-18808-Ljbffr