Commercial Finance Manager

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Bury, Greater Manchester, England
Senior level
Fashion • Sports • Wearables
The Role
As a Commercial Finance Manager, you will lead financial planning, analysis, and reporting for Size? Group and Mainline Menswear, providing strategic financial management and business partnership. Your responsibilities will include managing budgets, forecasting, collaborating with finance teams, and presenting financial information to senior stakeholders, while ensuring sound decision-making across multiple units.
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Join JD Sports as a Commercial Finance Manager an drive growth, shape strategy, and make an impact in a fast-paced world of global sports and fashion retail.

As the Commercial Finance Manager for Size? Group & Mainline, you will be responsible for leading the financial planning, analysis, commercial reporting and providing business partnering to the Size? Group fascia’s and Mainline Menswear. This role entails strategic financial management, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and ensuring sound financial decision-making across multiple business units.

  • Job Title – Commercial Finance Manager
  • Location – BL9 8RR
  • Working rota – Mon-Fri
  • Working hours – 40 hours

What You'll Be Doing:

As a Commercial Finance Manager, you'll be doing the following: 

  • Business Partnership and Support:
    • Provide financial support to the Operations Director & Brand Director for Size? Group and the Managing Director of Mainline Menswear
    • Be the key finance representative for any investment projects, new store investment, and other strategic decisions for Size? Group
  • Budget and Forecast Management:
    • Manage the business units Budget and Reforecast process for your area. This includes retail & digital trade and direct costs, alongside the head office cost base for the business units.
    • Manage the Size? Marketing teams budget and continually monitor spend
  • Collaboration with specialist Finance Teams & wider Group teams:
    • Work closely with specialist Finance teams (Distribution, Digital, Property) to deliver a coherent full Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet forecast.
    • Ensure Group reporting deadlines are met by liaising with other business partners, trading leads, merchandising to receive timely reporting feeds into our reporting systems and understand & reconcile reporting outputs.
  • Stakeholder Communication:
    • Present financial information to senior stakeholders on a monthly & ad-hoc basis
    • Represent finance as part of the Size? Group Senior Leadership team and regularly present financial information to the team.
  • Strategic Financial Guidance:
    • Partner, support, and challenge the Group’s operational departments alongside the Size? Group trading and head office departments by producing financial models, conducting scenario analyses, and assessing risks to support decision-making and business growth.
  • Team Culture and Development:
    • Embed a team culture aligned with the Group’s core values.
  • Financial Oversight:
    • Support cash flow, working capital, and capital expenditure forecasting.
    • Approval of travel & ad-hoc staff spend

What We're Looking For

  • Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or Equivalent):
  • 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:

Established in 2000, size? has since evolved into one of the most influential, leading streetwear brands that represent a community connected by fashion, music, sport and art. From supplying our customers with all of the finest brands in footwear, apparel and accessories from across the globe for over two decades, the size? brand has grown to include its roster of highly sought-after worldwide exclusive product releases - including collaborations with Nike, adidas Originals, New Balance, Reebok and many more.From showcasing and celebrating all things streetwear and the cultures that influence it through size?collections; to working directly with some of the UK’s most creative universities through size?syllabus, the size? franchises have evolved over the years to help play a core role in connecting us to our customers.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Group 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 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 you applying, 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.

Thank you again for your time.

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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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