Commercial Finance Business Partner

Sewell Wallis are currently recruiting for a Commercial Finance Business Partner to join a leading brand with offices in Leeds.

You will be a qualified Accountant, ideally CIMA / ACCA / ACA with strong stakeholder management skills and reporting to the Finance Director, your responsibilities will include:-

• Supporting and working closely with the Commercial team
• Taking the finance lead on all pricing and promotional activity with an understanding of how this impacts on revenue and margins and ensuring this is reflected in the forecast
• Developing and reviewing an appropriate suite of reports to improve the tracking of pricing and promotional activity and measure its effectiveness
• Working closely with the Buying and Supply Chain Finance teams to understand impact of any pricing changes and how this may effect any commercial decision making
• Agreeing appropriate sales intake targets with the Commercial and Sales teams
• Being the finance lead on all business cases linked to new product investment and any range review activity
• Managing the monthly forecasting process
• Ensuring knowledge on intake for the channels is inputted into the process as well as a clear understanding of profitability across the channels
• Reviewing of month end and presenting to the Commercial teams
• Working as the finance lead on all new product investment and any range review activities
• Providing analysis and building business cases as appropriate to be presented at Board level for sign off
• Ongoing post project reviews
• Working with the wider Business Partner Team to develop and implement financial best practice

Requirements

• Fully qualified Accountant with solid business partnering skills
• Confident, with the ability to work with non finance teams across the group
• Strong influencing and presentation skills
• Good analytical background

Benefits

• Hybrid working - 3 days in the office and 2 work from home
• Free parking
• Competitive salary plus car allowance and bonus

For further details please contact Emma Dugdale.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.