Overview

Seasalt began in 1981 with a small shop in Penzance, selling workwear to local mariners and practical overalls to artists. Today, Seasalt is a growing omnichannel retailer with over 80 UK and Ireland stores, 400+ wholesale stockists, and a growing international and online footprint. As a B Corp and winner of Drapers “Best Place to Work” and CIPD’s “Best Recognition Programme”, we care deeply about our people, our communities and our long-term impact. Our Head Office teams provide the foundations that empower our people to drive sustainable growth across the UK and international markets.

Responsibilities

• As Head of Commercial Finance, design, development, and delivery of the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) processes, and the development and leadership of business partnering.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning processes, driving commercial decision-making through strong business partnering and support.
• Contribute to key projects, and provide insight and accounting across all sales channels and related marketing costs.
• Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly performance reports, including functional and channel P&Ls, ensuring correct sales cut-off and managing monthly marketing cost accruals.
• Business partner with key stakeholders, holding monthly meetings to ensure accuracy of actuals reporting, reviewing functional and channel P&Ls, and creating a monthly rolling reforecast.
• Drive the timetable and deliverables for the annual budget cycle and quarterly reforecasts, providing analytical review and challenge of requests and assumptions where required.
• Deliver timely monthly reporting deliverables such as KPIs, cash flow forecasting, covenant reviews, and contribute to the board pack.
• Build models based on operational requirements, including financial modelling and scenario planning, to increase insight and enable decision making.
• Conduct financial analysis including investment appraisal, ROI, margin and cost analysis, and promotion and markdown forecasting to generate actionable, commercially relevant insights.
• Retail staff headcount and cost analysis, reporting, and forecasting.
• Collaborate with the wider Finance team to collate timely deliverables across the P&L and balance sheet, and to maintain long-term cashflow and working capital forecasts.
• Drive corporate strategy with the Executive Team through workshops and actionable outputs, developing a 3–5 year business model and financial plan aligned with EBITDA targets and banking covenants.
• Support key projects to drive profitability, including business case preparation, maintaining and developing the long-term cashflow model with reference to banking covenants and strategic/project aims.
• Lead direct reports through regular one-to-ones, performance management, and coaching, ensuring accountability and maximising team performance.
• Collaborate with wider teams, including Business Analytics for data strategy and KPIs, and Procurement regarding major contract tenders.

Qualifications

• Fully qualified ACA, CIMA or ACCA (or equivalent).
• Finance business partnering experience that spans beyond budget management.
• Thorough understanding of budgeting, forecasting and detailed analysis and the ability to forecast cash flows.
• Ability to drive strategic decision making and influence.
• Experience creating and leveraging information and data to provide meaningful presentations and reports to support critical decision making.
• People-focused senior leader with strong leadership skills and proven success in leading, coaching and developing a motivated team.
• Experience engaging with and presenting to senior level stakeholders up to and including Board level.
• Experience promoting and developing financial acumen in non-financial business leaders.
• Advanced Excel and Microsoft Office skills.
• Demonstrable analytical skills, process mindset, critical thinking and attention to detail.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both finance and non-finance colleagues.
• Well organized with the ability to work in a fluid, fast-paced environment.

Why you’ll love working with us

The success of Seasalt is down to the skill and hard work of our team. We don’t just want to attract the best and brightest people to come and work with us, we want you to stay and grow with us.

We support your professional development and also focus on personal growth to help you fulfil your passion and purpose. We offer a range of benefits designed to enhance your career and wellbeing:

• Salary: £70,000 - £77,250 depending on experience (Band 4)
• 34 days paid annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing with length of service
• Attractive 50% employee discount
• Flexible benefits allowance to personalise your benefits package
• Private Medical Scheme including 24/7 virtual GP
• Free access to our Employee Assistance Programme through Retail Trust with 24/7 support
• Pension plan with generous 7% employer contributions
• Life assurance programme
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Flexible working opportunities with our hybrid working approach
• Learning and Development opportunities
• Do Good Things with two days per year paid volunteering
• Employee networks including the Inclusion & Belonging Network
• Hundreds of savings on top retailers and gym memberships through our discount hub

Inclusive culture

At Seasalt we have a brilliant team of people – they’re what make Seasalt a fantastic place to work. We celebrate uniqueness and are committed to making Seasalt a place where everyone belongs. We welcome a diverse range of candidates to apply for our roles. We aim to work flexibly where possible and value diverse perspectives. If you need adjustments during recruitment or beyond, please email careers@seasaltcornwall.co.uk.

Close date: 10th October.