10 Oct
Agora Talent
London
Are you a Commercial Finance Leader looking for an opportunity within a market leading Retailer?
This Retail Group have an acquisition-led growth strategy; and are now looking for a Director of Commercial Finance to partner with their Senior Leadership team across all brands; lead their commercial finance function; and take a lead role in potential future acquisitions.
Leading a commercial finance team of eight, you'll be accountable for...
New Business
- Commercial due diligence and internal benchmarking of new business opportunities
- Onboarding of any new acquisitions
- Drive efficiency recommendations
- Delegate ad hoc commercial judgement analysis throughout the team
Business Partnering
- Engage stakeholders to enable regular reviews and change recommendations
- Business Partner all areas with commercial negotiations and contract approval
Leadership
- Lead and support the development and growth of your team
- Role model leadership qualities and have the drive and motivation to inspire team to deliver
- Work closely with internal and external teams to achieve functional success
- Promote and maintain effective communication at all levels across the function ensure all colleagues are focused on brand and group-wide objectives
Investment
- Ownership of investment approval process and payback reporting for all business areas
Management Information and Reporting
- Report and provide commentary on consolidation of UK group figures including balance sheet and cashflow.
- Support Head of Financial reporting on commercial judgement areas
- Monitoring and consideration of various different stakeholder KPIs
- Ownership of monthly board packs
- Providing internal and external context on trends and KPIs vs targets
- Ensuring core governance metrics are reported accurately
- Developing and maintaining a risk and opportunity schedule
Budgeting and Forecasting
- Ownership of the budget, forecast and 3YP cycle
- Manage internal communications on assumptions, deadlines and reporting requirements
- Ownership of balance sheet and cashflow forecasting
- Stakeholder presentations
Sales, Margin and Stock Planning
- Build relationships with the brand product teams to support decision making
- Agree sales and buy assumptions with the Merch Directors to present to board
- Influence and develop reporting on stock efficiency
About you...
- Experienced Commercial Finance leader with Multi-Site Retail background
- You'll be very comfortable with full P&L; ownership - and will have the strategic nouse and modelling capability to lead on commercial due diligence.
- You'll be a people-focused leader, with experience supporting ande developing a sizeable team.
- Highly advanced modelling skills including building and working with an integrated and detailed P&L;, Balance Sheet, and Cashflow model.
- Experience of Business case preparation and sign off, contract review and negotiation
- Extensive experience of Stock Planning including markdown spend, stock targets, sales plans and stock buys
NB: This is a full time role, requiring you to be in the office (London) three days a week.
▶️ Director of Commercial Finance | Retail
🖊️ Agora Talent
📍 London