Senior Commercial Finance Manager

Our client ?employs? ?5,000? ?people? ?across? ?13? ?locations? ?in? ?the? ?UK &? ?ROI? ?(nine? ?manufacturing? ?/? ?distribution? ?sites? ?and? ?four? ?office? ?locations), ??and? ?is an? ?anchor? ?market? ?for? ?the?? ?business.

The? ?UK? ?&? ?ROI? ?has? ?ambitious? ?plans?, Customer Finance act as an enthusiastic and honest business partner to help the business build robust external relationships and maximise internal value creation and ensure the Customer teams develop a better understanding of both consumer and trade dynamics to build more effective strategies.

The Senior Commercial finance Manager will support in driving the rituals and routines necessary to understand performance, deliver insightful and actionable financial analysis, provide rigorous financial control and evaluation processes to support the Customer team with customer investment decisions.

Principle Accountabilities

• Develop a strong business partnering culture with account team, providing supportive challenge and valuable insight while ensuring on-going continual improvement.
• Work with the Customer team to drive better understanding of the drivers of performance (including trends, channel/customer profitability and understanding of external retailer landscape and dynamics) and develop GAP fill opportunities.
• Support a regular rhythm of business performance diagnostics, the annual & strategic planning process & DOP/ Forecast process.
• Support customer discussions by preparing Joint Business Plan evaluations with a more for more mentality to maximise the investment as well as modelling customer P&L’s.
• Manage & Support to control terms/pricing investment, tracking of delivery & P&L management of accruals.
• Implement pre & post evaluation of TI investment made to optimise returns.
• Manage unsolicited deductions working with Genpact and account teams.

• Essential

  • Prior experience in FMCG in Customer/ Commercial Finance.
  • A passion for business performance management & analytics.
  • A qualified accountant (ACCA/ACA/CIMA)