Commercial Finance Manager – Southern Europe

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Bury, Lancashire, England
Junior
Fashion • Sports • Wearables
The Role
The Commercial Finance Manager will lead financial planning and analysis for Southern Europe, prepare financial summaries, collaborate with various business units, manage budget forecasting, and support senior leadership with financial insights. They will produce commercial reports, collate payroll data, and maintain accurate financial information for the region while assisting with bonus calculations and report development.
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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?

If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.

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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The Company
Bury
23,337 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

The Group At A Glance:

Established in 1981 with a single store in Bury, in the North West of England, JD Sports Fashion plc (JD Group) are the leading global multi-channel retailer & distributor of branded and own branded sportswear & fashionwear.

JD Group has a global reach with brands and stores across 19 territories in Europe, North America & Asia Pacific. We are proud to provide our consumers with the latest products from recognised brands such as Nike, Adidas, Puma and The North Face, with strong Own Brand labels such as Pink Soda and Supply & Demand to provide an elevated consumer experience.

JD Group continue to lead the way with successful subsidiaries, including Size?, The Hip Store, Go Outdoors, Blacks, Millets, Tiso, Ultimate Outdoors, as well as International Retailers, Sprinter (Spain), Sport Zone as well as JD Finish Line.

Our C:ulture

We inspire our people to reach for higher levels of performance. To achieve these standards, we only recruit the best! All employees are highly skilled, self motivated and in constant pursuit of perfection. Opportunities to progress arise quickly for those people with the right qualities and ambition.

We encourage our people to constantly seek ways to improve our business. This means challenging the way we merchandise, sell and manage the business, being creative and forward thinking in suggesting alternative solutions. Problems are solved and opportunities are seized by people from all levels of the organisation working together.

JD Sports Fashion HQ is situated in Bury, Greater Manchester. JD Sports also have our global Distribution Centre in Rochdale, Greater Manchester & its highly decorative Creative Studio in Manchester City Centre

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