Overview

As Head of Commercial Finance, you’ll be responsible for the design, development, and delivery of the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) processes, as well as the development and leadership of business partnering. In this role, you will lead the budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning processes, while driving commercial decision-making through strong business partnering and support. You’ll contribute to key projects, and provide insight and accounting across all sales channels and related marketing costs.

This is a full-time, permanent role. While the preference for this role would be for the candidate to be Cornwall based, we would also welcome applications from the South West of the UK with occasional travel to our Head Offices in Cornwall – approximately once a month. The role is internally known as ‘Senior Commercial Finance Manager’.

Responsibilities

• Preparing daily, weekly, and monthly performance reports, including functional and channel P&Ls, ensuring correct sales cut-off and managing monthly marketing cost accruals.
• Business partnering with key stakeholders, holding monthly meetings to ensure accuracy of actuals reporting, reviewing functional and channel P&Ls, and creating a monthly rolling reforecast based on previous assumptions.
• Leading the annual budget cycle and quarterly reforecasts, providing analytical review and challenging requests and assumptions where required.
• Delivering timely monthly reporting deliverables such as KPIs, cash flow forecasting, covenant reviews, and contributing to the board pack.
• Building models based on operational requirements, including financial modelling and scenario planning to increase insight and enable decision making.
• Conducting financial analysis, including investment appraisal, ROI, margin and cost analysis, and promotion/markdown forecasting to generate actionable, commercially relevant insights.
• Retail headcount and cost analysis, reporting, and forecasting.
• Collaborating with the wider Finance team to collate deliverables across the P&L and balance sheet, and to maintain long-term cashflow and working capital forecasts.
• Driving corporate strategy with the Executive Team through workshops and outputs, developing a 3–5 year financial plan aligned with EBITDA targets and banking covenants.
• Supporting key projects with business case development and maintaining long-term cashflow models related to banking covenants and project aims.
• Leading and developing direct reports through regular one-to-ones, performance management, and coaching.
• Collaborating with Business Analytics and Procurement to support data strategy, KPIs, non-financial reporting, and major contract tenders.

Qualifications and skills

• Fully qualified ACA, CIMA or ACCA (or equivalent).
• Finance business partnering experience beyond budget management.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, and detailed analysis skills with cash flow forecasting ability.
• Ability to drive strategic decision making and influence.
• Experience creating and leveraging information and data to provide meaningful presentations and reports for critical decision making.
• People-focused senior leader with proven coaching and development ability.
• Experience presenting to senior stakeholders up to Board level.
• Experience promoting financial acumen in non-financial leaders.
• Advanced Excel and Microsoft Office skills.
• Analytical mindset, process orientation, critical thinking, and attention to detail.
• Effective communication with both finance and non-finance colleagues.
• Well organized and able to work in a fluid, fast-paced environment.

Benefits

• Salary: £70,000 - £77,250 depending on experience (Band 4)
• 34 days paid annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing with length of service
• 50% employee discount
• Flexible benefits allowance
• Private Medical Scheme including 24/7 virtual GP
• Employee Assistance Programme via Retail Trust with 24/7 support
• Pension with 7% employer contributions
• Life assurance
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Flexible working with hybrid arrangement
• Learning and Development opportunities
• Two days per year volunteering
• Employee networks including Inclusion & Belonging Network
• Discount hub with savings on retailers and gym memberships

Note: Seasalt is an inclusive employer and encourages a diverse range of candidates to apply. We offer flexible recruitment adjustments on request. For questions, reach out to careers@seasaltcornwall.co.uk.

Close date: 10 October