Commercial Finance Manager – Central Europe
Responsible to: Head of Commercial Finance Europe
Department: Finance
Location: JD Group Head Office, Bury, BL9 8RR
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
As the Central Europe Commercial Finance Manager, your responsibilities will include all commercial analysis, budgeting & forecasting for multiple companies across the region. You will be the lead Commercial Finance contact for multiple business stakeholders in your region, helping to them to understand trends, drivers and future projections on performance, and how they impact the financial performance. You will work collaboratively across different Finance teams including Supply Chain Finance, Reporting Finance, Group FP&A and Group Tax. You will also work closely with the Head of Commercial Finance for Europe to deliver on wider Europe objectives. You will manage one direct report, and as a team you will deliver team objectives while you support their professional development. There will be periodic travel involved into Europe on an adhoc basis.
- You will lead the Budgeting and Forecasting process for your region
- You will lead presentations of financial information, highlighting risks and opportunities to plan.
- Regular Sales analysis and reporting – providing insight to underlying key drivers of performance
- Support Payroll analysis and reporting – providing insight to good / bad performance, and supporting improvement
- Analyse costs across your businesses and surface opportunities to improve operating profit margin
- Responsible for ensuring the integrity of time and attendance systems and associated reporting and including any implementation of new time and attendance systems.
- Longer term growth forecasting and analysis to support the Group’s strategic growth plans across Europe
- Quickly develop and deliver new analysis to help stakeholders understand changes in the businesses’ environment
- Input into Cashflow forecasting process to support
- Support Property Finance team on new store investment appraisals
- Support Reporting team to deliver clear and robust reporting and analysis
- Understand commercial retail context allowing review of store and multichannel operational performance
- Ability to work with stakeholders across different levels and different countries
- Manage one direct report and support their professional development
Skills/Experience/Knowledge Needed:
- CIMA / ACCA / ACA Qualified Accountant – with 2 years PQE in a commercial finance role is essential.
- Experience with working alongside and influencing multiple senior stakeholders; both financial and non-financial
- Advanced Excel skills, TM1 experience not essential but an advantage
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Positive, flexible, enthusiastic and driven.
- Flexibility to be able to adapt to a fast pace of change