Finance Manager
* Annual Salary: £50,000pa
* Car Allowance: £4,000pa
* Discretionary Annual Bonus: 10% of annual salary
* Location: Maidstone
* Job Type: Permanent and Full-Time
* Working Arrangements: Hybrid
Join our FMCG client in the retail division as a Finance Manager, where you will play a crucial role in management accounting, forecasting, commercial analysis, and decision support. This position requires effective collaboration with Commercial Directors, Procurement teams, and the Head of Finance to maximise commercial opportunities and manage risks.
Day-to-day of the role:
1. Act as a proactive Finance Business Partner to the commercial teams, providing support, challenge, and insight.
2. Deliver timely, accurate, and relevant financial information & analysis to key stakeholders, including monthly and quarterly forecasts, annual budgets, variance analysis, and ad-hoc analysis to drive business performance.
3. Manage consignment reconciliation & margin management, analysis, and challenge.
4. Present and explain commercial department performance at Weekly Trading Board meetings.
5. Identify risks and opportunities to enable delivery of the targets.
6. Develop, challenge, and questio...