Senior Commercial Finance Manager Crew Clothing - Kingston-on-Thames Full-Time
Crew Clothing Company was founded in Salcombe in Today Crew is a great British brand, and our success lies in our authentic passion for producing great looking, well made clothes. We now have more than 70 stores and a thriving website, and the business continues to grow.
Our people are at the heart of our company. With a passion for exceptional service, and a love for our product, our team is dedicated to offering the best customer experience – nothing is too much trouble.
Purpose of the role:
The purpose of this role is to provide commercial finance support to the
business, managing insightful financial planning models while ensuring flexibility
to meet the changing needs of the business.
You will support and challenge the teams through reviewing and producing
performance reporting and analysis, as well as provide key insights to senior
stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
* Support and develop a team of two Management Accountants
* Provide effective Business
Partnership by an appropriate balance of support and challenge to drive
business performance
* Play a lead role in the
budgeting and reforecasting process
* Monitor weekly business
performance and attend weekly trading meetings to understand impact of current
trade on forecast
* Prepare relevant KPIs to
ensure key business drivers are optimising performance and driving behaviour
* Support retail and
e-commerce teams by providing sales and margin variance analysis
* Work closely with buying and
merchandising teams to drive efficiencies
* Manage CAPEX forecasting and
reporting
* Financial modelling and
analysis to produce robust financial appraisals and post investment reviews
* Undertaking any other duties
which may be requested by the Finance Director
Key Skills
and Experience:
* Fully qualified accountant
(ACCA, CIMA or ACA)
* Experience in a similar role
* Team management experience
* Desire to develop and coach
the team
* Good time and organization
skills
* Good communication,
influencing and presentation skills
* Proven business partner
skills; capable of building relationships within various departments and
leadership team
* Ability to identify errors
and good attention to detail
* Strong excel skills
* Ability to work in a fast paced, commercially focused
environment and able to adapt to change quickly