Senior Commercial Finance Manager

Job Description : SENIOR COMMERCIAL FINANCE MANAGER UK Open to candidates looking to move to the UK and who are eligible to apply and get working rights here Company will not support on this 15+ years experience one of the leading retail companies in the North West, are looking to hire a Senior Commercial Finance Manager to join their stunning head office in Liverpool. Reporting to the Head of Commercial Finance, the Senior Commercial Finance Manager will business partner closely with peers and senior leaders across the business, helping to deliver against business plans, highlight commercial challenges and demonstrate confident commercial decision-making. This is a fantastic opportunity to lead a high calibre commercial finance team, in a challenging, varied and business-critical role. Previous experience within retail/FMCG is highly desirable.: Business partner the traind teams to commercially challenge each area to deliver against their strategies. Support the ongoing evolution of commercial process bringing best fit practice to tools and proceses. Create and support a framework for cost price and supplier negotiation with the sourcing and buying teams. Involvement in key supplier negotiations including reviewing performance, planning and preparing negotiation strategy of each. Be the independent arbiter of all trials relating to trading ensuring they are fit for purpose, clear on there objectives and measured independently against those objectives. Challenge of day to day trading performance and work with trading to course correct considering all commercial impacts. Drive forecasting rigour and timescales across trading to feed into the overall business planning requirements aligning KPIs end to end across the business. Stay abreast of outside factors that influence the business and ensure this knowledge and insight is shared across the business. Develop your own team through inspiring leadership. Forge an effective working relationship with all cross functional teams. Create an atmosphere and culture of high support and high challenge across those teams and within our own team. To work with non financial stakeholders to enhance commercial awareness, challenge and improve processes and efficiency, in order to improve cost effectiveness. Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with substantial PQE Prior experience in a commercial finance role, with proven business partnering ability Strong team management experience Proactive, organised, ability to work well under pressure Previous experience within retail/FMCG highly desirable

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