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Location: London (primary office) / Nottingham (occasional travel)
Reporting to: Chief Financial Officer
Direct Reports: Commercial analysts
Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent
Role overview
This is a senior full-time role within the business, requiring a commercially savvy and strategic individual preferably with consumer goods experience. The position is a pivotal component of the Operational Leadership Team (OLT), which together with your direct reports is focused on bringing greater clarity of performance to the business and driving profitable growth in line with our strategic priorities.
Key responsibilities:
Lead all aspects of commercial finance and FP&A, including inter alia:
* Acting as the Finance lead in the S&OP process, including reporting and monitoring all risks and opportunities to plan.
* Drive clarity and accountability for regional, channel/customer and category profitability and P&Ls
* Partner with commercial teams on pricing, promotions, trade terms, and margin improvement opportunities, together with ad hoc scenario modelling as required
* Oversee ROI analysis on commercial and marketing investments.
* Manage and develop all FP&A processes, such as creating a rolling forecast; sharpening our monthly management reporting routines and strategic planning workflows
* Develop our internal tools to better utilise technology and significant data at our disposal to increase transparency, accessibility and accuracy of our performance versus targets.
* Be an effective lead within your team, helping to develop team members in meeting their individual objectives
Required Skills & Experience
* Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
* Minimum 7–10 years of experience in commercial finance roles, preferably in FMCG / consumer goods
* Demonstrable experience partnering with commercial teams to drive profitable growth
* Exceptional analytical and modelling skills; experience with financial planning systems (e.g. Power BI) is a plus.
* Comfortable working in a venture capital backed, fast-pace entrepreneurial environment.
* Hands-on and proactive – comfortable rolling up sleeves to get into the detail where needed.
What we will give to you (our Company Benefits):
* Private Medical for ALL employees - Vitality Medical scheme
* Part of the BCORP organisations
* Birthday day off
* Cycle to work scheme
* Team days
* Allowance to use on our wonderful products each month
* Dog friendly office
The INKEY team
At INKEY we are a dynamic and enthusiastic team with huge ambition.
We make things happen (sometimes against the odds!) by thinking differently and being solution-led.
We love hearing creative, innovative ideas that provide opportunities for improvement. Proactiveness is an absolute must. In return, we are committed to developing the knowledge of our team, as we do with our consumers, and the scope for growth is enormous.
We are a diverse team of passionate individuals who fundamentally believe that better knowledge creates better decisions.
We are really proud of the culture and environment we have built in our business since our launch in 2018.
We stand for transparency, equality and fairness and live this through our brand and our team every day.
We are for everyone.
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Finance
* Industries
Retail
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