Finance Manager

Ashley Kate HR and Finance are recruiting on behalf of the UKs biggest specialist seafood brand for a Finance Manager. This is a great opportunity to join an industry leader.
Key Accountabilities:
·Managing product profitability, providing insights and challenge to support effective decision making
·Ownership of the sales budgeting and financial forecast process, ensuring clarity, accountability and appreciation of risk/opportunity enabling clear understanding, providing appropriate feedback and challenge to support sales initiatives and plans to drive up top line growth whilst providing guidance and advice on balance margin quality aspirations
·Manage price realisation process and identify opportunities to improve margin through pricing
·Lead customer margin management for a group of retail customers, providing insight and challenge
·Managing customer profitability, support JBP process and lead initiatives to improve customer profitability
·Evaluation of customer tenders and initiatives and management of open book accounting
·JBP/business planning support, guidance, analysis and challenge to enable delivery of best possible business plans in an informed and sensitive assessed manner. Ensuring proper governance and appropriate actions.
·Flexibility to cover wider commercial agenda as required.
Skills and Experience required:
·CIMA qualified
·Commercial finance experience advantageous
·Strong analytical and communication skills
·Ability to work on own initiative and within the team structure.
Key Challenges:
·Improving commercial insight and analysis
·Integration of Livingston commercial agenda including day to day interaction
·Improving sales forecast accuracy
·Act as "bridge" between commercial and other functions to ensure best business outcome and alignment of plans and actions
·Provision of timely and accurate facts with balanced and insightful information to the right people at the right time. To include Daily/weekly sales updates, etc.
Next step
If this sounds like an opportunity you could excel in please send in your application or call Jake now on 0114 221 8000 if you have any questions.

If you are interested in this role, please apply or contact Ashley Kate for further details.

Ashley Kate specialise in recruitment nationwide for temporary, contract and permanent roles. We give equal priority to our candidate and client relationships and ensure we deliver a highly professional consultancy service at all times.

Ashley Kate operates as a Recruitment Agency for the provision of permanent candidates and as a Recruitment Business for the provision of temporary candidates.