Senior Commercial Finance Manager

Senior Commercial Finance Manager | Liverpool (Hybrid) | £70,000 - £80,000, plus car allowance, staff discount, pension, 25 days holiday, wellbeing care, plus other benefits | Omni-channel retail

This is a high profile and highly visible senior Commercial Finance role for one of our great, reputable, dynamic large retail clients. Established over 20 years ago this is an established but growing mini-channel retail business going through an exciting period of change.

About the role

The Senior Commercial Finance Manager will work with senior stakeholders across the whole of the business but will work especially closely with trading teams. The role will help deliver commercial and strategic objectives and be an integral part of performance increase. This is a fast paced retail environment and the successful candidate will be expected to be able to develop and shape this newly created role in this type of environment, whilst managing a small team.

Key responsibilities

• Business partner with multiple teams to commercially challenge each area to deliver against their strategies.
• Support the ongoing evolution of commercial process bringing best fit practice to tools and processes.
• Create and support a framework for cost price and supplier negotiation with the sourcing and buying teams.
• Involvement in key supplier negotiations including reviewing performance, planning and preparing negotiation strategy of each.
• Be the independent arbiter of all trials relating to trading ensuring they are fit for purpose, clear on there objectives and measured independently against those objectives.
• Challenge of day to day trading performance and work with trading to course correct considering all commercial impacts.
• Create a process of markdown review and implement across merch and central planning to ensure rigour in review of markdown spend.
• Drive forecasting rigour and timescales across trading to feed into the overall business planning requirements aligning KPIs end to end across the business.
• Stay abreast of outside factors that influence the business and ensure this knowledge and insight is shared across the business.
• Develop your own team through inspiring leadership.
• Forge an effective working relationship with all cross functional teams.
• Create an atmosphere and culture of high support and high challenge across those teams and within our own team.
• To work with non financial stakeholders to enhance commercial awareness, challenge and improve processes and efficiency, in order to improve cost effectiveness.

Finance Business Partner Person profile

• CIMA, ACCA, ACA qualified
• Proven Commercial Finance experience
• Experience gained within an omni-channel retail/consumer background highly desirable
• A strong analytical approach
• Excellent communication skills across all levels with the ability to influence
• Used to adapting and dealing with change
• Deliver to tight deadlines in a fast paced environment
• Ability to work calmly under pressure

Senior Commercial Finance Manager Package

£70,000 - £80,000, plus car allowance, staff discount, pension, 25 days holiday, wellbeing care, plus other benefits | Omni-channel retail

Zachary Daniels and our client are both equal opportunity employers. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Zachary Daniels is a Niche, National & International Recruitment Consultancy.

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