Commercial Finance Manager – Southern Europe

 

Responsible to: Senior Commercial Finance Manager
Department: Finance
Location: JD Group Head Office, Bury, BL9 8RR

 

Role Overview:

As the Commercial Finance Manager, you will be responsible for leading the financial planning, analysis, commercial reporting and providing financial support to Southern European JD Markets. This role entails strategic financial management, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and ensuring sound financial decision-making across multiple business units.

You will work collaboratively with the other key departments to deliver seamless, high-quality output to your stakeholders. There may be travel involved on an ad-hoc basis. 

 

Responsibilities:

• Budget and Forecast Management of the South Europe region
• Able to prepare financial summary packs for the region and undestand key variances

• Present and communicate effectively to senior leadership the latest forecast
• Work closely and partner other business units and undestand cost drivers
• Able to challenge these departments and support them with business cases

• A vital component of the role is also supporting the Senior Commercial FM on reporting and analysis across the European region
• The role will focus on all the component forecasting of JD Italy whilst supporting JD Iberia Commerical Finance team.
• Production and distribution of daily, weekly, and monthly commercial reporting for the region
• Collate payroll data across Southern Europe markets and distribute weekly/monthly reports
• Assist with the preparation of quarterly bonus calculations
• Ensuring data is accurate, complete, and maintained regularly for all Europe markets
• Management of timelines and submissions in line with Group Finance deadlines and agreed timelines with stakeholders
• Active involvement in design, development and maintenance of new reports and modelling

 

Skills/Experience/Knowledge Needed:

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or Equivalent): +2 years post qualified
• Industry Expertise (Retail or Fashion):
• 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 90,000 colleagues over 4,500 stores across several retail fascia's in over 36 countries 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?

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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.

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