Senior Commercial Finance Manager in UK

Company Description

SECRET SALES is a premium e-commerce marketplace for fashion, footwear, accessories, and beauty. The platform allows brands and retailers to sell non-full price stock directly to consumers, driving growth, profitability, and maintaining brand equity. With over 2,800 luxury and high street brands featured on the site, Secret Sales offers a stylish environment for products away from cluttered listings.

Role Description

This is a full-time remote role for a Senior Commercial Finance Manager at SECRET SALES. This a key role within the organisation business partnering the senior leadership team on financial planning and commercial analysis. The right individual will have experience in Fashion, be great at challenging and love analysing bit sets of data. The Senior Commercial Finance Manager will be responsible for overseeing financial strategies, analysing market trends, and providing insights to optimise performance.

Main duties

• Provide finance business partnership
• Own the production of weekly / Monthly MI and play a key part in the discussion and challenging of key areas to drive constant improvements.
• Support the CFO with board and Senior Leadership communications
• Support the CFO on M&A activities
• Analysis and communication of P&L lines to identify volume, rate and mix drivers to explain and challenge performance
• Identification of Opportunities and Risks with sufficient notice to influence the outcome
• Delivery of core finance processes including month end reporting, forecasts, budgets and long range planning
• Analytical support to projects and new initiatives
• Champion the usage of data across different teams, coach and empower business partners to derive insights using self-service analytics tools and incorporate data as part of daily decision making
• Proactively and constructively question the status quo. Identify improvements to continuously optimise business/technology decisions and ways of working.

Experience/Qualifications required:

• 5+ years in a commercial finance role working for a Fashion business
• Client service oriented and fosters positive working relationships.
• Strong financial analysis and management skills; good business acumen
• Advanced analytical and numerical skills
• Ability to build and maintain relationships to deliver results
• Curious about the business and drivers of performance
• Can describe complex ideas simply and to non-finance teams.
• Flexible attitude and forward-thinking nature