Job Description
Senior Commercial Finance Manager, Hertfordshire (Hybrid working)
£75-£85kpa plus great benefits, including a 20% Bonus
Our client, a leading consumer goods business, is looking to add a highly commercially focused finance professional to the team due to successful talent planning.
The successful candidate will need to understand brand performance, drive innovation, and ensure marketing investments deliver strong returns. The role requires a natural business partner to build positive relationships, develop results-oriented plans, and communicate commercials clearly.
This role is on a fast track to become a Head of Finance within approximately 18-24 months.
Key Duties:
1. Educate and define the strategy, vision, and investment opportunities behind the brands, in partnership with Marketing Directors, to drive long-term balanced growth.
2. Support opportunities surrounding promotions, pricing, and pack architecture to improve value.
3. Deliver outstanding commercial financial management, focusing on performance management, planning, and forecasting to recognize and project brand performance.
4. Define the financial support for the Brand Planning process, leading Brand Managers through the construction of brand strategies.
5. Maintain clarity over business performance, understanding drivers such as trends, brand/customer/channel profitability, and external competitor influences, to enable planning and support course corrections.
6. Build detailed business and investment cases to deliver innovation and brand opportunities across capital and marketing activation, managing within financial and consumer ROI benchmarks.
7. Provide strategic challenge and insights based on data and commercial experience, working with business partners to deliver the plan.
8. Design, manage, and evolve analysis tools and techniques for effective decision-making within governance cycles.
9. Evaluate innovation plans to formulate and model opportunities, influencing the commercial proposition and understanding costings to deliver margin-enhancing innovations aligned with hurdle rates.
10. Role model for junior finance and commercial team members.
On offer is the chance to join an iconic business passionate about innovation and delivering a best-in-class customer offering. The successful candidate will be fully qualified (ACA/CIMA/ACCA) and have experience in commercially focused roles, ideally within a consumer-facing industry.
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