Commercial Finance Manager - Franchise

at  JD Sports

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.