Finance Manager

2 weeks ago


London, UK, United Kingdom Consumer Additions and Consumer Exec Full time

Consumer Additions are currently partnering with a leading high-street bookseller, to recruit an Finance Manager, to join their team in Central London.


Key Responsibilities:

  • Full ownership of the P&L’s, including the month end accounting, for the different online brands that Waterstones operates.
  • Build strong relationships and liaise with the head of each online operation.
  • Prepare the annual budget in conjunction with the heads of online operations.
  • Ensure that senior management have clear and concise reporting.
  • Grow the reporting suite and align the reporting of the different website brands.
  • Provide commercial insight in weekly meetings with the heads of online operations and the COO.
  • Be the go to finance head for all online finance queries from both the online teams and senior management.


Key Requirements:

  • Fully qualified in CIMA or ACCA
  • Strong evidence of margin analysis experience
  • Good understanding of Microsoft Office products including Word and Excel with a strong willingness to advance their Excel knowledge and skills
  • Good time management and organisational skills
  • Able to cope under pressure with change, and work within deadlines.
  • Take instruction and execute work under the supervision of line manager well.
  • Strong pace of work is essential.
  • Good verbal and written communication skills to concisely articulate financial data analysis to colleagues under the supervision of line manager.
  • Ability to build and manage relationships and translate financial understandings to non-financial managers and stakeholders.
  • Systems knowledge of Coda and Cognos (Planning Analyst) is desirable but not essential
  • Commercial awareness
  • Professional
  • Adaptable
  • Pro-Active
  • Team Player


Thank you for your application. Due to the high number of applications we are, unfortunately, not able to provide individual feedback to every candidate at this stage of the process. If your application is successful however, you should be hearing from us in due course.


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