Job Description

This position manages a team of 12 that have responsibility for both financial control and commercial finance within their UK division. The assignment will include an interesting blend of BAU and transformational challenges.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with key business stakeholders, inputting on commercial discussions, decision support, and anticipating issues
• Develop and enhance the growing Business Partnering team
• Ensure the UK entity has well-constructed business plans and budgets including risk and opportunities
• Lead and own weekly and monthly commercial reporting in which financial performance and KPIs are reviewed
• Deliver an accurate understanding of financial & business performance consistent with International Financial Reporting Standards
• Ensure that Company financial processes are robust, compliant and fit for current and future growth requirements including all legal and regulatory requirements are adhered to

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• You are ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified
• You have previous experience as a senior finance leader
• You have a strong commercial and strategic sense to identify the most important KPIs for your organization and enough gravitas to rally everyone behind constantly improving those
• You are highly driven to perform and have proven analytical capabilities
• You have experience building accurate financial models and forecasts to support day-to-day business
• You are adept at using financial reporting and consolidation tools
• Ideally you have experience in financial control/audit and subsequent experience at corporate
• Previous retail or ecommerce experience is a nice to have