Commercial Finance Manager

Commercial Finance Manager - Haddenham

This role reporting to the Commercial Finance Director – EMEA QSR will be a Finance Business Partner to the UK Flavour Solutions commercial team, providing financial insights to drive improved decision-making and deliver business results through driving growth and profitability. Focus will be both strategic and tactical to achieve targeted near and long-term goals and objectives.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Business Partnering with commercial team to drive growth and profitability

• Prepare analysis and insights on the key drivers of financial performance for the business unit.
• Prepare and manage customer and product profitability analysis and reporting.
• Business partner to the Commercial teams, providing insightful analysis to support decision making.
• Provide financial guidance to the commercial team.

Financial reporting and analysis

• Support Financial reporting and analysis for all customers. Daily and weekly sales reporting.
• Support month-end processes, quarterly financial forecast, and budget.

Business Improvement and special project

• Work to improve core commercial finance processes and reporting.
• Ensure all processes are documented and Sarbanes Oxley Act compliant.
• Prepare ad hoc commercial project viability studies.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

• Relevant degree or equivalent Qualification.
• High level of Excel skills required and preferably experience of TM1 and SAP.
• Experience in liaising with non-financial personnel.
• Capability to influence and challenge commercial team across category, marketing, and sales.
• Ability to analyse complex data and convert into a simple story.
• Good relationship-building skills.
• Strong personal leadership, being able to work in a results-driven culture with big focus on execution.
• Self-starter and able to engage with commercial teams. Able to manage to deadlines.

COMPANY

At McCormick, we bring our passion for flavor to work each day. We encourage growth, respect everyone's contributions and do what's right for our business, our people, our communities, and our planet. Join us on our quest to make every meal and moment better.

Founded in Baltimore, MD in 1889 in a room and a cellar by 25-year-old Willoughby McCormick with three employees, McCormick is a global leader in flavour. With 13,000 employees around the world and more than $5 Billion in annual sales., the Company manufactures, markets, and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments and other flavourful products to the entire food industry, retail outlets, food manufactures, food service businesses and consumers.

While our global headquarters are in the Baltimore, Maryland, USA area, McCormick operates and serves customers from nearly 50 locations in 27 countries and 160 markets in Asia-Pacific, China, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and the Americas, including North, South and Central America with recognized brands including Schwartz.

At McCormick, we have over a 100-year legacy based on our “Power of People” principle. This principle fosters an unusually dedicated workforce requiring a culture of respect, recognition, inclusion, and collaboration based on the highest ethical values. 

Agencies: McCormick as needed will work with external recruitment vendors through our Agency Portal. Unless previously contacted, McCormick does not accept unsolicited resumes from external recruiting agencies.

McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, colour, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies.