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Commercial Finance Manager - Sales and Marketing

Commercial Finance Manager - Sales and Marketing

Based: London (Knightsbridge)

  • Scale up business with huge investment made in a brand new state of the art manufacturing facility for 2022 and a number of exciting product launches into 2023/24 and beyond
  • Following the recent appointment into the Head of Finance position INEOS Hygienics is currently expanding the Finance Team with a number of exciting permanent opportunties.

The Role: reporting directly to the Head of Finance the succesful candidate will provide senior finance leadership support to both the Sales and Marketing functions. Key areas of focus in this role include optimising both trade investment and marketing spend and providing financial support for new product launches and sales promotions.

Accountabilities:

  • Ownership of P&L reporting in relation to Sales, Cost of Sales, Trade Investment (TI) and Marketing Spend.
  • Provide commercially sound financial analysis (focusing on ROI) related to investment in both Marketing and Trade investment (TI).
  • Be a true finance business partner to commercial teams, providing accurate and timely financial analysis of NPD launches.
  • Review and sign off COS for all SKU’s and ensure robust and accurate COS margin reporting is developed for Hygienics. Provide accurate costings for NPD SKU’s and ensure commercial sign off before product costs go “live” in SAP.
  • Own the budgeting and quarterly forecasting process for Sales, COS, TI and Marketing.
  • Develop monthly margin variance reporting versus budget/forecast.
  • Provide monthly variance reporting and commentary for both Marketing and Trade Investment spend. Perform ad hoc financial analysis to support Sales and Marketing executives.
  • Develop KPI’s and reporting packages providing data analytics and fact-based commercial insights.
  • SAP Project – exciting opportunity to lead the Reporting workstream and work with functional leads to sure up reporting tools to meet business requirements.
  • Provide cover to support the production of monthly management accounts.

Knowledge & Qualifications:

  • Qualified Accountant - ACCA or CIMA with 3+ Years Post-Qualified Experience

Core Skills:

  • Flexible and adaptable to meet changing business needs.
  • Proactive, with good time management and organisational skills to meet strict deadlines.
  • Strong interpersonal skills to resolve issues and influence people and contribute to or lead teams.
  • High degree of tenacity – to resolve completely any issues which impact on cash.
  • Enthusiatic, energetic and a “can do” attitiude with a willingness to want to learn.

Technical/Professional Experience:

  • Experience of working in FMCG Commercial Finance roles, including 3+ Years Post-Qualified Experience.
  • Business Partner with Sales and Marketing Directors, operating in an advisory capacity, providing decision support and analysis that can be acted upon by the senior management teams.
  • Microsoft Office – Very strong Excel skills (advanced level, pivot, lookups, macros, SQL etc) and familiar with preparing PowerPoint slide decks.
  • Well-developed numeracy and analysis skills.
  • Relevant accounting systems experience including SAP, QlikView and Hyperion (not mandatory, but advantageous).

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