Commercial Finance Manager, Hertfordshire (Hybrid working)
75-85kpa plus great benefits - inc a 20% Bonus
Our client, a leading consumer goods business, is looking to add a highly commercially focused finance professional to the business due to successful talent planning. The successful candidate will need to understand brand performance, drive innovation, and ensure marketing investments deliver strong returns on investments. This role is on a fast track to become a Head of Finance within circa 18-24 months.
Key Duties:
Educate and define the strategy, vision, and investment opportunities behind the brands in partnership with Marketing Directors to drive long-term balanced growth. Support opportunities surrounding promotions, pricing, and pack architecture to improve value. Deliver outstanding commercial financial management, focusing on performance management, planning, and forecasting to recognize and forecast brand performance. Define the Financial support to the Brand Planning process, leading the marketing Brand Managers through the construction of the Brand Strategies. Maintain clarity over business performance, understanding drivers of performance (including trends, brand/customer/channel profitability and external competitor influences) which enable planning, supporting course correction and achieving opportunities. Build detailed business/investment cases where appropriate to deliver Innovation and Brand opportunities across capital and marketing activation, managing within both financial and consumer return on investment benchmarks. Provide strategic challenge and insight based on data and commercial experience, working with business partners to deliver the plan. Design, manage, and evolve best-in-class toolkits and techniques for efficient and effective analysis, diagnosis, and decision-making within business governance cycles. Evaluate the Innovation plans to formulate and model Innovation opportunities, applying knowledge, influencing the Commercial proposition, and understanding costings to deliver margin accretive innovation opportunities aligned to hurdle rates. Role model for more junior Finance and Commercial team members.
Qualifications: The successful candidate will be fully qualified (ACA/CIMA/ACCA) and progressed through a variety of commercially focused positions, ideally in a consumer-facing industry.
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Our client, a leading consumer goods business, is looking to add a highly commercially focused finance professional to the business due to successful talent planning. The successful candidate will need to understand brand performance, drive innovation, and ensure marketing investments deliver strong returns on investments. This role is on a fast track to become a Head of Finance within circa 18-24 months.
Key Duties:
Educate and define the strategy, vision, and investment opportunities behind the brands in partnership with Marketing Directors to drive long-term balanced growth. Support opportunities surrounding promotions, pricing, and pack architecture to improve value. Deliver outstanding commercial financial management, focusing on performance management, planning, and forecasting to recognize and forecast brand performance. Define the Financial support to the Brand Planning process, leading the marketing Brand Managers through the construction of the Brand Strategies. Maintain clarity over business performance, understanding drivers of performance (including trends, brand/customer/channel profitability and external competitor influences) which enable planning, supporting course correction and achieving opportunities. Build detailed business/investment cases where appropriate to deliver Innovation and Brand opportunities across capital and marketing activation, managing within both financial and consumer return on investment benchmarks. Provide strategic challenge and insight based on data and commercial experience, working with business partners to deliver the plan. Design, manage, and evolve best-in-class toolkits and techniques for efficient and effective analysis, diagnosis, and decision-making within business governance cycles. Evaluate the Innovation plans to formulate and model Innovation opportunities, applying knowledge, influencing the Commercial proposition, and understanding costings to deliver margin accretive innovation opportunities aligned to hurdle rates. Role model for more junior Finance and Commercial team members.
Qualifications: The successful candidate will be fully qualified (ACA/CIMA/ACCA) and progressed through a variety of commercially focused positions, ideally in a consumer-facing industry.
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