A leading retail business is seeking an experienced Commercial Finance Manager to join its Commercial Finance team and play a key role in driving profitable growth through strategic financial partnering and commercial insight. This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially focused finance professional who enjoys working closely with senior stakeholders to influence business decisions, improve performance, and support long-term growth. Acting as a trusted business partner across Commercial, Marketing, Operations, and Digital teams, you will provide financial leadership on pricing, promotions, customer initiatives, and investment decisions, ensuring commercial strategies deliver sustainable profitability.
In this role, you will lead the financial planning cycle, including budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning, translating business strategy into robust financial plans while identifying risks, opportunities, and actions to improve performance. You will own the delivery of insightful financial reporting and variance analysis, using data to evaluate trading performance, customer trends, sales, margins, and investment returns. Working collaboratively with cross-functional teams, you will build business cases, assess the financial impact of strategic initiatives, and provide clear, actionable recommendations that support commercial decision-making and maximise value creation.
You will also be responsible for identifying opportunities to improve profitability, optimise investment effectiveness, and drive continuous improvement across reporting and planning processes. By leveraging strong analytical skills and financial modelling expertise, you will simplify complex financial information into meaningful insights that enable stakeholders to make informed decisions. The role also includes coaching and developing junior members of the finance team while fostering a collaborative, high-performing culture.
The successful candidate will have significant experience within Commercial Finance, FP&A, or Strategic Finance, ideally gained within a retail, consumer, hospitality, or other fast-paced trading environment. You will have a proven track record of partnering with commercial stakeholders, supporting pricing, marketing, customer, or operational teams, and influencing strategic decisions through financial insight. Strong financial modelling, forecasting, and performance analysis skills are essential, alongside advanced Excel and Power BI capabilities. You will be commercially minded, proactive, and confident communicating with stakeholders at all levels, with the ability to balance strategic thinking and operational delivery. A professional accounting qualification (CIMA, ACCA, ACA or equivalent) or significant relevant experience is preferred.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic retail organisation where you will have the opportunity to shape commercial strategy, influence key business decisions, and make a measurable impact on business performance while continuing to develop your commercial finance career.
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