Senior Commercial Finance Manager
hace 5 días
Dunstable
Adapro Talent Partners are delighted to be supporting a large, Bedfordshire based multi-site business with their recruitment of a Senior Commercial Finance Manager, on a permanent basis. Reporting to the Head of Commercial Finance, and partnering with the Trading Director, this role will play a key role in providing commercial insight, challenge and support to drive business performance. This is a hands-on, highly visible role that blends financial rigour with real-world commercial understanding.Key ResponsibilitiesCommercial Finance Business Partnering\n\n • Partner the Trading Director and wider leadership team, providing commercial insight, challenge and support to drive business performance.\n, • Support the execution of the business plan across the estate, ensuring initiatives deliver sustainable growth and profitability.\n, • Influence decision-making through strong financial analysis, robust challenge and clear recommendations.\n, • Build trusted relationships with stakeholders\nPerformance Reporting & Insight\n\n, • Provide weekly insight and performance analysis across brands.\n, • Lead analysis of key performance drivers including sales, volume, mix, margin and promotional activity.\n, • Deliver timely and actionable recommendations following weekly and monthly performance reviews.\n, • Identify risks and opportunities, taking action to resolve issues or escalating where appropriate.\nFinancial Reporting & Control\n\n, • Own period-end accounting, reporting and analysis.\n, • Deliver robust gross margin accounting and detailed variance analysis to explain performance versus budget, forecast and prior year.\n, • Ensure key financial controls, governance processes and reporting standards are effectively managed and maintained.\n, • Support audits and ensure financial processes remain compliant and fit for purpose.\nFinancial Planning & Forecasting\n\n, • Own financial planning processes.\n, • Provide clear visibility of risks and opportunities, ensuring stakeholders understand performance outlook and required actions.\n, • Support investment decisions, commercial negotiations and strategic initiatives through financial modelling and analysis.\n, • Drive forecast accuracy and continuous improvement in planning processes.\n, • Ownership of capital appraisals that are robust, based on good commercial assumptions and measured/tracked consistently. Business partnering with the Snr Investment Manager to ensure reporting is transparent and commercially sound.\nCommercial Performance Reviews\n\n, • Own performance reviews for Catering, ensuring stakeholders have clear insight into trading performance.\n, • Lead discussions around operational and commercial drivers of performance.\n, • Track delivery of performance improvement initiatives and financial commitments.\n, • Support post-implementation reviews to evaluate business initiatives and investment returns.\nProcess Improvement & Projects\n\n, • Drive continuous improvement in commercial finance processes, controls and reporting.\n, • Support the implementation of new initiatives, systems and business processes across Finance and the wider business.\n, • Champion data quality, automation and efficiency improvements.\n, • Undertake ad hoc reporting, analysis and project work to support business priorities.\nLeadership\n\n, • Lead, coach and develop a high-performing Analyst.\n, • Support the broader leadership and development of the Commercial Finance team.\n, • Foster a collaborative, high-performance culture focused on continuous improvement and delivering business value.\n This role will suit a Professionally Qualified individual who possesses strong commercial finance experience, and the ability to simplify complex analysis into clear messages that influence decisions. They will be a strong relationship-builder who collaborates well across Finance, Commercial and operations. Previous experience in a multi-site, retail environment would be advantageous, though not essential. Our Client is offering a Salary of £65,000 - £70,000 + £5,800 Car Allowance + 20% Bonus + Benefits.