Senior Commercial Finance Manager in Bury

Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with our colleagues working in stores across several retail fascias in many markets around the world. JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally. We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.

As the Senior Commercial Finance Manager – Digital, you will work closely with digital trade colleagues to fully embed financial support into key leadership decision making.

• Provide commercial finance support to the Associate Director to maximise sales profitably across the digital business.
• Drive successful business outcomes by being a true partner to the Digital trading teams, providing financial analysis, strategic insights and financial support with a laser focus on delivering sales plans and EBIT targets.
• Active contributor to trade meetings, helping to support trade directors and the wider trade team.
• Deliver commercial, trading and financial insight into opportunities to further accelerate profitable growth.
• Extensive experience of handling data and the ability to translate clear messages from a range of data sources.
• Financial modelling of different sales, margin and fulfilment scenarios.
• Lead the budgeting and forecasting process in your area, working collaboratively with partners across the business to build deliverable plans.
• Particular interest in candidates with experience in online retail operations (DC and store fulfilment and delivery); digital marketing (development and tracking of digital channel plans); customer analysis (segmentation, loyalty, LTV).
• Identify and embed improvements in processes, analysis and tools.
• Work closely with colleagues in Commercial Finance (in Digital and broader Finance Business Partners) as well as across the Finance function.

Skills/experience/knowledge needed:

• 3 years+ CIMA / ACCA / ACA Qualified Accountant.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Strong data analysis and financial modelling skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Good interpersonal skills, with a track record of developing positive working relationships with finance and non-finance colleagues.
• Positive, flexible, enthusiastic and driven.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. Knowledge of SQL a plus.
• Particular interest in candidates who can demonstrate experience in ecommerce, marketplace, technology or digital sectors more widely.

We know our colleagues work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits including staff discount on JD Group and other brands within the organisation and personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.