Finance Manager - Supplier Retros

We’re a team of drinks industry obsessives, driven by supporting the trade – day in and night out. Passion paired with unparalleled industry insight mean we’re always moving forward, collaborating with our customers to understand the needs of their business and to ensure we’re supporting their future growth. We are one of the UK’s largest drinks wholesalers, supplying drinks to several thousand venues in every part of the UK and every segment of the trade, from luxury hotels and world-class event spaces to local restaurants and community pubs. With over 200 years of on-trade experience behind us, and unique insight into the future of our industry, our experience matters.

About the Role

The purpose of this role is to manage and oversee the administration, accounting and invoicing of all supplier rebates, including managing, coaching and developing a team of 5. This includes ownership of associated balance sheets and P&L areas, as well as ensuring gross margin is reported accurately through business partnering and continuous review of our pricing and rebate software, processes and rebate related master data in our pricing and rebate software.

This is an exciting time to join the team as we are rolling out some technology and process changes in the coming months.

• Manage Supplier Retros team to ensure the analysis produced is timely and accurate, stakeholders (internal and external) are engaged appropriately, and Balance Sheet controls are in place.
• Work closely with Financial Control and Commercial Finance and be fully accountable for the accurate and timely production of monthly forecasts.
• Analysis of profitability to product level including effects of pricing, COGS, retrospective discounts and marketing expenditure to drive income and cash growth.
• Work with master data, pricing and commercial finance to ensure all elements of commercial revenue are accurately maintained, reported and utilised.
• Ownership and management of accounting areas of the balance sheet and P&L relating to supplier income and TPD processes.
• Manage the invoicing of supplier income.
• Provide link between Commercial Finance and Commercial team to ensure the business is focussing sales effort on maximising profit when standard cost, customer specific retros, retro exclusions, price and expected margin are considered.
• Act as subject matter expert and business partner with projects and issues relating to customer and product profitability. Driving continuous improvement in process, systems and people.
• Production and analysis of monthly KPI reports and actionable insight; identify anomalies and issues and relay recommendations to improve profitability and/or cash generation.

About You

• Qualified accountant (preferable not essential)
• Experience of coaching / mentoring / managing a team.
• Strong systems experience (ideally JD Edwards, PriceEdge), advanced Excel, Power BI experience.
• Demonstrable experience of delivering change.
• An action-oriented individual, who is solutions focused, can manage multiple priorities, and deliver results on time.
• Strong IT and administration skills, Numeracy, and a good level of English.
• Customer Service Focus, Excellent communication, interpersonal, relationship building, and stakeholder management skills.
• A good team player, with excellent attention to detail and good problem-solving skills that follows processes in place and prioritises business improvement.
• Project management: Uses project management techniques at appropriate levels to deliver projects.
• Coaching: Develops a high-performance climate by effectively coaching others.
• Drive: tenacity to continuously improve processes and results.