Senior Finance Manager

Our client in Reading, is looking to appoint a Senior Finance Manager, reporting into Finance Director
This role would suit someone newly qualified or with 3-5 years PQE. Working for a reputable onsline brand in the Fashion/Retail sector

Key responsibilities:

Commercial
* Facilitate data‐driven decision making by ensuring key decision makers in the business have appropriate financial analysis to identify opportunities and measure performance
* Assist the Financial Director in presenting reports to the senior leadership team, board members and other stakeholders as necessary.
* Identify and manage the appropriate commercial risk for new ventures or products
* Review and expand financial modelling to ensure that changing business demands are planned, understood and supported
* Oversee annual budgets and re-forecasts across the business including leading the roll out of regular re-forecasting cycles and processes
* Establish and run efficiency modelling and analysis of marketing spend
* Work with the marketing teams to better understand opportunities and risk
* Propose ways to test areas of marginal ROIs and optimise future levels of investment

Financial Control
* Oversee the accounting and financial control environment
* Preparation, review and distribution of monthly management accounts, including key monthly cash and sales postings
* Suggest updates and improvements for accounting systems. Work cross-functionally to ensure improvements are implemented.
* Work with auditors to ensure prompt filing of statutory accounts and tax computations as well as compliance with all other regulations
* Preparation and maintenance of the annual budget and rolling re-forecasts, including managing the annual Budgeting process
* Preparation of VAT returns across 8 countries
* Supervise and manage finance team of two
* Motivate and lead finance team members by clarifying roles, providing helpful feedback, identifying training needs, additional resource requirements and improving current procedures where necessary.

If this role is of interest and you have the relevant skills and experience, please apply with your CV.