Commercial Finance Manager

Seasalt began in 1981 with a small shop in Penzance selling workwear to local mariners and practical overalls to artists. Today weve grown into a thriving omnichannel retailer with over 80 UK and Ireland stores 400 wholesale stockists and a growing international and online a B Corp and winner of both Drapers Best Place to Work and CIPDs Best Recognition Programme we care deeply about our people our communities and our long-term impact. Our Head Office teams provide the foundations that empower our people to drive sustainable growth across the UK and international Commercial Finance Manager youll play a pivotal role in shaping financial insight challenging assumptions and supporting strategic decisionmaking. Youll assist with budgeting forecasting and performance analysis across our multichannel retail business partnering closely with senior stakeholders across our various sales channels and cost is a full-time permanent role and as part of our Seasalt Connected approach to ways of working this role will be based flexibly across our Cornwall head office locations (minimum 40% of working week) and remotely within the help us by:Support the annual budget process and inyear reforecast cycles across sales channels and overhead robust driverbased forecast models that reflect the performance dynamics ensuring that all budgets and forecasts align with business strategy financial targets and trading business inputs into a coherent financial plan providing clear variance analysis and the delivery of monthly management accounts for sales channels and key overhead insightful reporting packs including P&L analysis KPI trends variance explanations and channel performance commentary for Board/Exec reporting ensuring clarity accuracy and commercial with Financial Accounting to ensure journals accruals and provisions are accurate and performance against budget reforecast and prior year clearly articulating underlying trends and highlighting risks opportunities and actions for the upcoming as the primary finance partner to channel leads e.g. stores online partners functional heads e.g. Marketing Property Retail Operations with financial insight cost control and investment and influencing commercial decisions with datadriven analysis and financial performance into clear actionable insights for nonfinance monthly channel and departmental performance reviews identifying risks opportunities and required collaboratively with the finance team to ensure accurate reporting alignment on key metrics and supporting the development of financial processes to improve accuracy and skills youll be sharing with the team:Proven experience in a commercial finance or finance business partnering to simplify complex financial information and influence working in a fastpaced environment with multiple prioritiesHigh attention to detail combined with the ability to think and analytical skills.A great influencer with the ability to confidently represent the business with stakeholders (internal and external)Highly numerate and literate with the ability to effectively communicate financial topics to non-finance professionalsTenacious nature with the ability to problem solvePossess the authority credibility and integrity to command respect and hold teams or areas to account when requiredAbility to translate operational requirements into finance team we hope youll love working with us:The success of Seasalt is down to the skill and hard work of our team. We dont just want to attract the best and brightest people to come and work with us we want you to stay and grow with well as doing everything we can to support your development professionally we believe encouraging personal growth is just as important. So you can fulfil your passion and purpose not just at work but in life we offer a range of benefits that are designed to enhance your career and wellbeing:Salary: up to 42000 depending on experience(Band 3)34 days paid annual leave (including bank holidays) increasing with length of serviceAttractive 50% employee discountFlexible benefits allowance to personalise your benefits packagePrivate Medical Scheme including 24/7 virtual GPFree access to our Employee Assistance Programme through Retail Trust with 24/7 supportPension plan with generous 7% employer contributionsLife assurance programmeEnhanced family leave policiesFlexible working opportunities with our hybrid working approachLearning and Development opportunitiesDo Good Things with our two days per year paid volunteering opportunitiesEmployee networks to develop and provide support to our people including the Inclusion & Belonging Network100s of savings on top retailers and gym memberships through our discount hubAt Seasalt we have a brilliant team of people theyre what make Seasalt a fantastic place to work. We love to celebrate uniqueness and are committed to making Seasalt a place where everyone feels they belong. As an inclusive employer we want to invite a diverse range of candidates to apply for our aim to work flexibly where possible and value a range of perspectives - diversity of thought helps us to grow so please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come to work every day. Were happy to help with any adjustments to our recruitment process and beyond. Just drop us an email at date for applications is 17/08/2026 however our roles can close earlier so we would recommend applying as soon as you are -843