Commercial Finance Manager (Fast Growth FMCG)

Your new companyAre you looking to join a fast-growing, ambitious business with a clear growth agenda across the UK and international markets? This organisation is strengthening its finance team with the appointment of a Commercial Finance Manager to play a pivotal role in supporting strategic decision-making and driving profitable growth.This is a broad, high-impact position offering ownership of the full commercial finance agenda, including business partnering, profitability and growth analysis, forecasting, and strategic insight. The business is keen to speak with candidates who bring strong commercial finance experience, ideally from an FMCG, retail or consumer goods environment.
Your New Role
Reporting directly to the CFO, you will act as a key commercial partner to the wider business. Your responsibilities will include:

• Partnering closely with Sales, Marketing and Supply Chain to provide insightful, value-adding commercial support
• Leading the budgeting, forecasting and rolling forecast process, including detailed volume, price, mix and margin analysis
• Owning P&L performance, with a focus on gross margin optimisation, net revenue and cost control
• Driving pricing, promotions and trade spend analysis, ensuring return on investment is clearly understood and optimised
• Delivering robust commercial modelling and scenario analysis to support strategic initiatives and NPD
• Acting as the finance lead for customer and channel profitability analysis
• Constructively challenging stakeholders to improve commercial performance and decision-making
• Developing clear, actionable management reporting for senior leadership
• Identifying key risks and opportunities, translating data into practical commercial recommendations