Job Description

Sewell Wallis are currently recruiting for a Commercial Finance Business Partner to join a leading brand with offices in Leeds.

You will be a qualified Accountant, ideally CIMA / ACCA / ACA with strong stakeholder management skills and reporting to the Finance Director, your responsibilities will include:-

• Supporting and working closely with the Commercial team
• Taking the finance lead on all pricing and promotional activity with an understanding of how this impacts on revenue and margins and ensuring this is reflected in the forecast
• Developing and reviewing an appropriate suite of reports to improve the tracking of pricing and promotional activity and measure its effectiveness
• Working closely with the Buying and Supply Chain Finance teams to understand impact of any pricing changes and how this may effect any commercial decision making
• Agreeing appropriate sales intake targets with the Commercial and Sales teams
• Being the finance lead on all business cases linked to new product investment and any range review activity
• Managing the monthly forecasting process
• Ensuring knowledge on intake for the channels is inputted into the process as well as a clear understanding of profitability across the channels
• Reviewing of month end and presenting to the Commercial teams
• Working as the finance lead on all new product investment and any range review activities
• Providing analysis and building business cases as appropriate to be presented at Board level for sign off
• Ongoing post project reviews
• Working with the wider Business Partner Team to develop and implement financial best practice

Requirements

• Fully qualified Accountant with solid business partnering skills
• Confident, with the ability to work with non finance teams across the group
• Strong influencing and presentation skills
• Good analytical background

Skills Required

• COMMUNICATION
• MS Office
• Management