About The Role
MandM is one of the biggest employers in Herefordshire and one of Europe’s leading online, off-price retailers, selling branded Fashion, Sport & Outdoor products for Men, Women and Children.
We offer our customers fantastic value by partnering with companies who we have built long term relationships with, enabling us to offer our customers big household names and up-and-coming brands, giving fantastic value all year round.
As our business continues to grow we are recruiting for a talented Head of Commercial Finance to join our growing team.
More than a role
Competitive Salary: Your talent deserves recognition
Company bonus: We succeed, you benefit
Career Growth: Opportunity to grow
Staff Discounts: Stay stylish with our exclusive discounts.
Company Pension: Secure your financial future.
️ Generous Holiday Allowance: Enjoy 5 weeks of well-deserved breaks. You even have the option to buy an extra week
Birthday Delight: Take your special day off to celebrate YOU
Free Parking
Health & Wellbeing programme; we’ll look after you
The Role Scope
As a key member of the finance team, this role takes ownership of all commercial finance, financial planning, financial analytics and management accounting. As the primary finance owner of trading costs in the P&L (north of £100m), the role will support and drive business decision making, business partnering with senior stakeholders across the business.
Role key responsibilities
* Be the finance lead for key business functions, predominantly Operations, Customer and HR but also Buying & Merchandising.
* Help to define and refine business KPIs ensuring they are monitored and understood across MandM.
* Drive and deliver commercial analytics across the P&L to support decision-making and identify opportunities / risks.
* Oversee the Senior Finance Business Partner aligned to Operations and understand costs, KPIs, opportunities and risks.
* Oversee the finances of the EU warehouse operation ensuring 3PL performance is understood.
* Business owner of all Postage income working with Customer and Operations team around pricing and profitability
* Support capex and opex requests including new contracts / contract renewals through investment appraisal including costs / benefits
* Ownership and preparation of budgets and forecasts, including bringing together all financial information
* Lead update and refinement of MandM’s 5 year plan.
* Drive the Finance team to utilise all available data tools to enhance effectiveness and work closely with the Data team to realise data opportunities impacting both Finance and the wider business.
* Enable the commercial finance team to use business data to drive informed decision-making and enhance processes and reconciliations
* Ownership of key P&L lines and accountable for parts of the balance sheet.
* Management of the preparation, content and distribution of Management Accounts
* Oversee month end reporting, management accounts prep, Group and Board reporting.
About You
Skill/competency
* Qualified CIMA/ACCA or equivalent with 3+ years PQE.
* Commercial Finance background is a must
* Strong team leader who has developed individuals and managed performance
* Able to work on own initiative
* Excellent communication skills with experience of communicating at all levels
* Experience with budgeting, forecasting, modelling, planning
* Good knowledge of accounting standards
* High level of numeracy
* Excellent attention to detail
* Have strong finance systems experience including analytical tools
About Us
At MandM, our employees are driven by a shared commitment to excellence and making a real impact in the industry. We pride ourselves on upholding these core values in everything we do.
The people
Integrity
Teamwork
Accountability
Entrepreneurial approach
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