Commercial Finance Manager

Responsibilities:
• Finance lead for all M&S planning and reporting activities. Support the M&S function in building accurate and realistic plans on time and with high quality. Develop reporting analysis to present both plans and actual performance in a simple and effective way, allowing all stakeholders to clearly understand what is being presented. Ensure variance analysis is produced on a timely basis with high-quality narrative
• Work with M&S to categorize spend type depending on nature, and analyze plans and actual performance according to this categorization. Develop reporting tools to assess how the plans and performance of the budgets are mapping to overall business objectives and use return on investment style metrics to allow ranking and prioritization of planned expenditure
• Drill down into results using M&S and financial tools to give greater insight into business performance by area, channel, SKU, investment type. Develop clear reporting and analysis to inform the business of overall performance, trends, opportunities, risks and benchmarking and use this to drive best practice sharing and optimal resource allocation decisions