Title: Commercial Finance Manager
Department: Finance
Reports to: Finance Director - Hub
Company Overview:
Unilever has established a new division within its Beauty & Personal Care sector: Unilever Prestige. This division focuses on premium luxury brands in a fast-growing segment. In the UK, we operate the Prestige Hub, which functions as the Group Headquarters for REN Clean Skincare and serves as the UK offices for other Prestige entities based in Southwark, London. These include REN Clean Skincare, Murad Skincare, Living Proof Haircare, TATCHA Skincare, and Kate Somerville Skincare.
Position Overview:
The UK Prestige Hub supports sales, marketing, and shared services for prestige brands Murad, Kate Somerville, Living Proof, and Tatcha. The Finance team at the hub drives financial strategy, decision-making, and performance management across these entities.
Key Responsibilities:
This role requires a high degree of commercial agility, strategic insight, and business partnering skills to shape and influence decisions. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical and critical thinking abilities to derive actionable insights that drive business success.
Core Responsibilities:
1. Strategy and Decision Support:
- Partner with Hub Brand leads, global teams, and local marketing, sales, and operations to provide strategic financial guidance.
- Deliver ROI analysis on brand investment allocations (BMI) and evaluate strategic investment opportunities.
- Provide financial oversight and challenge to support brand growth, budgeting, and long-term planning.
2. Forecasting & Budgeting:
- Lead and optimize the strategic planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes through the Adaptive Insights tool to ensure accuracy and alignment with company targets.
- Collaborate with Supply Chain to execute a cohesive S&OP process, producing a detailed SKU-level volume forecast.
3. Performance Analysis and Reporting:
- Responsible for accurate P&L Actuals submission to global CFOs complete with value-add narrative.
- Prepare monthly performance reviews with the Finance Director, providing actionable analysis to guide business decisions.
- Conduct in-depth analysis of gross margin drivers, partnering with Sales, Product Development, and Supply Chain to identify and implement margin improvement opportunities.
- Foster a profit-driven approach with Sales and Marketing through clear guidelines, education, and self-serve tools.
- Oversee sales reporting and forecasting strategy, including Wholesale and Retail Sales reporting, with responsibility for regular performance updates.
4. Team Leadership:
- Supervise and mentor a Finance Analyst, enhancing team performance and contributing to their professional development.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Advanced analytical and Excel modeling skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- Proven ability to simplify complex data for effective presentation to senior management.
- Experience with SAP/Oracle/NetSuite or similar accounting software; proficiency in Tableau/Power BI is a plus.
- Expertise in Adaptive Insights with experience in optimizing forecasting tools.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with a track record of influencing senior decision-makers.
- Professional finance qualification (CA, CIMA, ACCA) required.
- High degree of resilience, objectivity, and teamwork, with the ability to deliver under pressure.
As an equal opportunities employer, Unilever Prestige Hub Brands: REN/Murad/Kate Somerville/Living Proof/Tatcha is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees regardless of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. We aspire to have a diverse workforce because, in our view, diversity enables better business outcomes. We also believe that a more inclusive workplace, where people of different backgrounds work together, ensures better outcomes for all staff. From application to interview, we place inclusion at the heart of all we do. In particular, we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Unilever Prestige Hub Brands/REN/Tatcha/Murad/Kate Somerville/Living Proof.
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