We're recruiting for a Commercial Finance Manager to join the Franchises team!
As the Commercial Finance Manager for Franchises, you will be responsible for leading the financial planning, analysis, commercial reporting and providing financial support to the Group’s UK Franchise team.
· Job Title – Commercial Finance Manager
· Location – BL9 8RR
· Working rota – Mon-Fri
· Working hours – Full-time
What You'll Be Doing:
As a Commercial Finance Manager, you'll be doing the following:
- Provide financial support to the Group Franchise Director and Global Franchise Business Partners.
- Be the key finance representative for new Franchise markets launches/investment projects.
- Manage the business units Budget and Reforecast process for your area.
- Work closely with specialist Finance teams (Distribution, Digital, Property) to deliver a coherent full Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet forecast.
- Ensure Group reporting deadlines are met by liaising with business partners to receive timely reporting feeds into our reporting systems and understand reconcile reporting outputs.
- Partner, support, and challenge the Group’s operational departments by producing financial models, conducting scenario analyses, and assessing risks to support decision-making and business growth.
- Understand local market anomalies and interpret this into comparable information.
- Support cash flow, working capital, and capital expenditure forecasting.
What We're Looking For:
- Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or Equivalent):
- Industry Expertise (Retail or Fashion) preferable
- Commercial acumen and experience of reporting to and influencing senior stakeholders.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
- Comfortable working under pressure, meeting tight deadlines, and managing multiple projects and priorities.
- Exhibit a positive attitude, enthusiasm, resilience, and a proactive approach to challenges.
The Company:
The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues over 3,400 stores across several retail fascia's in over 30 markets around the world.
We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.
To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.
We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:
- Incremental Holiday Allowance
- Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
- Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
- Discounted Gym membership
- Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
- Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications
Interested?
If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.
Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion
Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.
Thank you again for your time.
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What We Do
The Group At A Glance:
Established in 1981 with a single store in Bury, in the North West of England, JD Sports Fashion plc (JD Group) are the leading global multi-channel retailer & distributor of branded and own branded sportswear & fashionwear.
JD Group has a global reach with brands and stores across 19 territories in Europe, North America & Asia Pacific. We are proud to provide our consumers with the latest products from recognised brands such as Nike, Adidas, Puma and The North Face, with strong Own Brand labels such as Pink Soda and Supply & Demand to provide an elevated consumer experience.
JD Group continue to lead the way with successful subsidiaries, including Size?, The Hip Store, Go Outdoors, Blacks, Millets, Tiso, Ultimate Outdoors, as well as International Retailers, Sprinter (Spain), Sport Zone as well as JD Finish Line.
Our C:ulture
We inspire our people to reach for higher levels of performance. To achieve these standards, we only recruit the best! All employees are highly skilled, self motivated and in constant pursuit of perfection. Opportunities to progress arise quickly for those people with the right qualities and ambition.
We encourage our people to constantly seek ways to improve our business. This means challenging the way we merchandise, sell and manage the business, being creative and forward thinking in suggesting alternative solutions. Problems are solved and opportunities are seized by people from all levels of the organisation working together.
JD Sports Fashion HQ is situated in Bury, Greater Manchester. JD Sports also have our global Distribution Centre in Rochdale, Greater Manchester & its highly decorative Creative Studio in Manchester City Centre
