We’re looking for an Commercial Finance Manager- Trade and Marketing to join our Finance team As Commercial Finance Manager you are a Finance Business Partner to the Trade & Marketing Teams with Commercial Finance responsibilities including the strategic planning process for trade and marketing, prioritisation of investment choices, prioritisation of commercial levers to deliver targets, a strong financial control environment and delivery of performance insights and challenge to drive the right actions for our customer base. This role plays a key role in optimising our Trade & Marketing effectiveness and delivery of our customer plans, partnering the Heads of Trade and Heads of Marketing as we have ambitious plans to grow our brands and accelerate our retail transformation. You will have strong Commercial drive and acumen, a customer-first attitude, with proven finance business partnering experience in a high paced customer environment. Championing the customer, you will demonstrate the capabilities and skills to drive commercial, data driven results backed by your experience and instinct. Reporting to the Senior Commercial Finance Manager for Trade & Marketing, this role is fundamental to delivering ambitious commercial objectives to accelerate Brand reach, revenue & margin growth and increase our share of the online non-food market. What will you do as a Commercial Finance Manager – Trade and Marketing at N Brown?
- Business Partner the Trade & Marketing pillar to drive the actions and business initiatives for the delivery of the Customer strategy and the key leading indicators in line with targets
- Influence strategic and business decision making in relation to the brand, customer and marketing strategies across our retail and credit brands through valuable financial insight and detailed analysis
- Prepare investment business cases and choices, see them through our investment governance process with clear financial guardrails applied and clear outcomes agreed
- Identify, influence and drive business initiatives to grow the business and hold your stakeholders to account to deliver on targets through quality reporting and quality conversations
- Your insight should drive improved efficiency of marketing spend by implementing our marketing guardrails and determining the most effective channels to optimise our investment.
- Enhance commercial delivery by ensuring that all stakeholders understand their responsibilities for the overall financial goals of our Retail brands and the wider Group. Embed commercial mind-set and agility
- Preparation of financial reporting & insights for inclusion within the board pack and other ceremonies
- Develop and evolve weekly & month end reporting and analysis to better communicate financial performance to key stakeholders.
- Work with the Finance & Retail domains through the 5 year plan, annual budget and forecast processed, liaising closely with the wider Commercial Finance and Group Finance teams.
- Play a pivotal role, alongside Group Finance, in ensuring our financial statements (P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow) are accurate and auditable relating to our trade & marketing cost base
- Manage workloads, identify future requirements, and support the Senior Commercial Finance Manager with continuous improvement.
- Any other duties required by the business that are appropriate with the post, grade, and level of responsibility of this role, for which the holder has the necessary experience and training.
What skills and experience will you have?
- Qualified accountant with more than 2-years’ experience in a high paced commercial environment
- Experience of working alongside commercial teams in a retail environment is helpful (although not essential)
- Strong commercial awareness and a customer first approach
- Able to demonstrate high level commercial problem solving & analysis skills
- Able to influence and negotiate across all levels, based on an ability to think strategically and creatively for all parties
- Confident, clear and concise communication skills and to then truly influence outcomes
- Demonstrate the technical ability to quickly appraise complex situations, identify key issues and make tough, timely decisions
- Naturally inquisitive with a desire to understand a broad range of commercial challenges
- Digitally Literate – Embraces a digital world with the capability to envision and build new business models, tools, and ways of working informed by digital
- Integrator – Operates with the complete story in mind, understands and identifies connections, creates bridges and seamless experiences
- Innovative Thinker – Constantly considers and investigates new ways to perform work and deliver value, with openness to creative ideas and experimentation
- Data Obsessed – Feels passionate about, understands, and uses data to anticipate issues, identify opportunities, diagnose, test ideas, and design and improve solutions
- Customer & Colleague Centric – Focuses on customers and their needs as the starting and end points for every initiative and solution
N Brown – who we are and why work for us?
N Brown is a leading UK digital retail platform for clothing, footwear, home and technology, headquartered in Manchester and employing over 1,200 people nationwide. Through our strategic retail brands JD Williams, Jacamo and Simply Be and our unique payments offering, we exist to champion inclusivity and serve the underserved. Our customers are our passion, and we take great pride in delivering products that ensure they can look and feel amazing, without compromising on choice, value and accessibility. We’re committed to building a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive environment that values equality for all. Our vision is that by ‘championing inclusion, we’ll become the most loved and trusted fashion retailer’. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging are, therefore, at the heart of our culture. In May 2024 we were delighted to be named one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024. We work hard to create a happy and inclusive culture for everyone and we’re so proud to have made this list – as voted for by our very own colleagues!
Ways of Working
- Hybrid working (2-3 days in the office at a minimum)
- 24 days holiday (+ 8 bank holidays)
- Annual bonus scheme
- Enhanced maternity and adoption leave
- Company pension with up to 8% N Brown contribution
- Mental Health support both internally and externally, including access to our wellbeing champions and counselling services
- A range of financial wellbeing support
- Stream – a financial wellbeing tool that helps you track your pay, access earnings early and manage your money with confidence
- Colleague discount across all N Brown brands
- Onsite café with subsidised rates and local restaurant discounts!
- Life Assurance and Private Medical Insurance
- Paid volunteer time – all our colleagues can take a full day paid to volunteer for a charity of their choice. Our working hours are 36.17 per week and our core working hours are between 10am – 4pm. Given we don’t have strict working hours you can find the working pattern that’s right for you.
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