Job Description
Are you a Commercial Finance Leader looking for an opportunity within a market leading Retailer?
This Retail Group have an acquisition-led growth strategy; and are now looking for a Director of Commercial Finance to partner with their Senior Leadership team across all brands; lead their commercial finance function; and take a lead role in potential future acquisitions.
Leading a commercial finance team of eight, you'll be accountable for...
New Business
* Commercial due diligence and internal benchmarking of new business opportunities
* Onboarding of any new acquisitions
* Drive efficiency recommendations
* Delegate ad hoc commercial judgement analysis throughout the team
Business Partnering
* Engage stakeholders to enable regular reviews and change recommendations
* Business Partner all areas with commercial negotiations and contract approval
Leadership
* Lead and support the development and growth of your team
* Role model leadership qualities and have the drive and motivation to inspire team to deliver
* Work closely with internal and external teams to achieve functional success
* Promote and maintain effective communication at all levels across the function ensure all colleagues are focused on brand and group-wide objectives
Investment
* Ownership of investment approval process and payback reporting for all business areas
Management Information and Reporting
* Report and provide commentary on consolidation of UK group figures including balance sheet and cashflow.
* Support Head of Financial reporting on commercial judgement areas
* Monitoring and consideration of various different stakeholder KPIs
* Ownership of monthly board packs
* Providing internal and external context on trends and KPIs vs targets
* Ensuring core governance metrics are reported accurately
* Developing and maintaining a risk and opportunity schedule
Budgeting and Forecasting
* Ownership of the budget, forecast and 3YP cycle
* Manage internal communications on assumptions, deadlines and reporting requirements
* Ownership of balance sheet and cashflow forecasting
* Stakeholder presentations
Sales, Margin and Stock Planning
* Build relationships with the brand product teams to support decision making
* Agree sales and buy assumptions with the Merch Directors to present to board
* Influence and develop reporting on stock efficiency
About you...
* Experienced Commercial Finance leader with Multi-Site Retail background
* You'll be very comfortable with full P&L ownership - and will have the strategic nouse and modelling capability to lead on commercial due diligence.
* You'll be a people-focused leader, with experience supporting ande developing a sizeable team.
* Highly advanced modelling skills including building and working with an integrated and detailed P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cashflow model.
* Experience of Business case preparation and sign off, contract review and negotiation
* Extensive experience of Stock Planning including markdown spend, stock targets, sales plans and stock buys
NB: This is a full time role, requiring you to be in the office (London) three days a week.