Seasalt is a modern Cornish company with an ambitious vision. We are already established as a successful multi-channel UK retailer, with an international online presence, 70 shops, and various partnerships and wholesale stockists. We're always challenging ourselves to think creatively and innovate and our next phase of growth will focus increasingly on opening up international markets, as well as domestic expansion.
As our Senior Commercial Finance/FP&A Manager you’ll be responsible for the design, development and delivery of FP&A processes and business partnering. The role leads the budgeting, forecasting and strategic planning processes, driving commercial decision-making and providing insight and accounting across all sales channels and for related marketing costs.
This role offers the opportunity to work collaboratively with our Director of Finance, wider Finance team and key stakeholders across the business, building excellent working relationships. You’ll lead a highly engaged, proactive and forward-thinking team, demonstrating cross-departmental working and a willingness to support peers and colleagues.
Please note that whilst the preference for the role is to be based in Cornwall, this role can also be based within the South West of the UK, with weekly travel to our Cornwall head offices.
You’ll help us by:
Commercial Finance
You’ll provide actionable insights from detailed financial analysis, building models based on operational requirements to enhance decision making. Collaborating with stakeholders, you’ll review functional and channel P&Ls, conduct investment appraisal, ROI analysis, and margin and cost analysis at channel level, supporting key projects to drive profitability.
Reporting
You’ll oversee timely reporting and forecasting across our business, covering monthly deliverables (KPIs, cash flow forecasting, covenant reviews), daily and weekly performance reports, monthly functional and channel P&Ls, marketing cost accruals, and retail staff headcount and cost analysis.
Business Partnering
Leading monthly reforecasting and variance analysis, you’ll foster finance business partnering within the team, maintaining monthly meetings with business areas to ensure accurate reporting, and to create a rolling monthly reforecast based on previous assumptions.
Budgets and Forecasts
You’ll drive the timetable and deliverables for the annual budget cycle and quarterly reforecasts, closely partnering with the Board. Collaborating with Finance teams, you’ll gather timely deliverables across the P&L and balance sheet, preparing presentation decks, commentary, walks and analytics. You’ll ensure the strategy and financial plan is aligned to meet corporate EBITDA targets and banking covenants.
Strategy
Driving the corporate strategy in conjunction with the Executive Team, you’ll facilitate workshops, produce meaningful outputs and monitor the implementation of the 3-year plan business model and plan.
The skills you’ll be sharing with the team:
Why we hope 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. From the moment your Seasalt journey begins, it's our pledge to support you by providing dedicated learning and development opportunities that will enhance your day-to-day working life and help you build your skills and knowledge.
As well as doing everything we can to boost your development professionally, we believe encouraging personal growth is just as important. So you can fulfil your passion and purpose, not just at work but in life, we offer a range of benefits that are designed to enhance your career and wellbeing:
At Seasalt we have a brilliant team of people – they're what make Seasalt a fantastic place to work. We love to celebrate uniqueness and are committed to making Seasalt a place where everyone feels they belong. As an inclusive employer, we want to invite a diverse range of candidates to apply for our roles.
We aim to work flexibly where possible and value a range of perspectives - diversity of thought helps us to grow – so please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come to work every day. We're happy to help with any adjustments to our recruitment process and beyond. Just drop us an email at careers@seasaltcornwall.co.uk