Senior Commercial Finance Manager

Job Description

Howdens Joinery are recruiting for a Senior Commercial Finance Manager to join our finance team. Reporting to the Commercial Finance Director, this is a new leadership position that will act as Lead Finance Business Partner to the Chief Customer Officerand his Leadership team spanning our Marketing, Digital and Information Systems teams.Based either in our Raunds office in Northamptonshire or our Portman Square Office in London, you will support and challenge the teams to deliver Customer growth and strong Return on Investment from our marketing and digital activities, therefore enablingHowdens to win in the marketplace and deliver sustainable profitable growth. In this Senior Commercial Finance Manager role, you will embed robust financial controls and provide oversight to strategic and operational investment as well as defining the Financerole and team roles and responsibilities in a new part of the organisation.What you will be doing:

• Support our Marketing, Digital and Information Systems teams in delivery of their strategic and operational priorities
• Leverage insights and data to drive actions in the marketplace.
• Step-change company analytical processes and capabilities to build integrated view of customer performance.
• Work closely with Company Reporting & Information team.
• Define Customer growth roadmap and annual plan, defining all levers and actions to deliver growth and ensuring linkage to Commercial and Trade plans.
• Scope and analyse marketing and digital campaigns and support our digital department in market reviews and shaping future growth.
• Utilise multiple data sources (market intelligence, online trends, Google Analytics data etc) to pull together a holistic view and model out scenarios.
• Create a plan to pull together digital analysis that demonstrates ways in which value is being added in an omni-channel environment.
• Manage Marketing, Digital and Information Systems in-year budgets.
• Define risks and opportunities to Marketing, Digital and Information Systems financial deliverables.
• Support managing third party suppliers and agencies who support the business.
• Develop financial skills and literacy of Marketing, Digital and Information Systems teams.
• Define optimal Finance team structure and roles and responsibilities, and then deliver it.
• Build strong working relationships across the Finance function (Group, Commercial, Trade)
• Active role in driving company Finance agenda (business performance, transformation, talent development)

What experience we need you to have:

• Qualified Accountant e.g., CIMA
• Commercial Finance experience and business partnering with Sales and/or Marketing teams
• Experience of effectively influencing senior management and driving transformation
• Excellent communication, inter-personal and influencing skills
• Ability to manage and analyse data and draw-out insights and key messages
• Digital and IT literate (strong Microsoft Office skills and experience of SAP beneficial)
• Resilience, self-starter, drive, and energy
• Experience of Retail or Consumer Goods industry beneficial
• Experience of working in a matrix organisation beneficial

What we can offer you:

• Highly competitive salary
• Generous annual company bonus of 25% of base salary with a stretch target to 40%
• Company car or annual car allowance of £7,600
• Private medical insurance for you and your family
• Excellent pension scheme (company contribution of up to 12%)
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays with the option to buy additional days
• Free lunch at our onsite canteen or refreshments and snacks (dependent on office location)
• Staff Discount
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Exceptional Reward and Recognition events.

About Howdens:Howdens Joinery is the UKs number one trade kitchen supplier providing thousands of products across kitchens, joinery, and hardware. We have over 800 depots throughout the UK and Europemaking us the first choice for more than 460,000 loyal trade professionals.Last year our sales reached circa 2.1bn, and we have an ambitious growth agenda.As well as the opportunity to develop within a high-profile FTSE 100 company, you will be part of a rewarding organisation recognised for excellence in the workplace in theBest Big Companies to Work For.