Senior Commercial Finance Director

4 weeks ago


West London, United Kingdom Vitae Financial Recruitment Full time
Senior Commercial Finance Director

We are seeking a highly commercially focussed finance professional to join our client, a leading consumer goods business. The successful candidate will need to understand brand performance, drive innovation, and ensure marketing investments deliver strong return on investments.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Educate and define the strategy, vision and investment opportunities behind the brands, in partnership with Marketing Directors, to drive long term balanced growth.
  • Support on opportunities surrounding promotions, pricing and pack architecture to improve value.
  • Deliver outstanding commercial financial management, focussing on performance management, planning and forecasting, to recognise and forecast brand performance.
  • Define the Financial support to the Brand Planning process, leading the marketing Brand Managers through 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 modelling for more junior Finance and Commercial team members.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an iconic business, with a passion for innovation and delivering a best in class offering for its customers. The successful candidate will be fully qualified (ACA/CIMA/ACCA) and progressed through a variety of commercially focussed positions, ideally in a consumer facing industry.


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