The Role: Senior Commercial Finance Analyst UK&I
Location: Remote (UK)
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Finance Analyst to join our team on a permanent basis.
What You’ll Do
Reporting into the Commercial Finance Manager (UK&I), your primary responsibility will be to provide direction to the GM & CFO as well as the (regional) Sales and Marketing Leaders in support of the Tools & Outdoor business units including sales, margin, pricing and product analysis, budget and forecasting.
As the Senior Commercial Finance Analyst, you will operate in a hands-on role which will enable senior management to assimilate information and improve their decision making. You will work in collaboration with various stakeholders, including the likes of Commercial & Finance, Centres of Excellence, Controllership and Margin Excellence teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the month-end process and activities to provide in-time and accurate results supported by underlying variance analysis and information
- Support and manage the monthly forecast cycles and quarterly reviews
- Support the overall strategic plan and budget process
- Work with the Centre of Excellence to support various tools and analysis to support the various builds while driving continued process efficiencies and effectiveness
- Run and manage financial reporting.
- Lead the Sales and Operational Planning (S&OP) process aligning both financial and demand planning forecast
- Manage daily sales and margin tracking
- Advise management on decisions such as how to improve performance, minimize risk and/or capture new opportunities
- Analyse current, past and future trends in key performance indicators including all areas of revenue, cost of sales and expenses.
What are we looking for?
Higher Degree – preferred Finance degree or related
Part or fully qualified CIMA or ACCA
Demonstrable experience in Finance (Commercial Finance) within a multinational company
Highly proficient in Excel with a strong analytical background
Advantage: proficiency in SAP, Business Warehouse, Business Object, Qlikview, BA&R, Hyperion, Power BI
What You’ll Receive
- An attractive salary & benefits package
- Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs
- Excellent opportunities for continuous professional development
How You’ll Feel
Grow: Be part of our global company with 20+ brands to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.
Learn: Have access to a wealth of learning resources, including our Lean Academy, Coursera® and online university.
Belong: Experience an awesome place to work, where we have mutual respect and a great appreciation for diversity, equity and inclusion.
Give Back: Help us continue to make positive changes locally and globally through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.
What’s more, you’ll get that pride that comes from empowering makers, doers, protectors and everyday heroes all over the world. We’re more than the #1 tools company. More than a driving force in outdoor power equipment. More than a global leader in industrial. We’re visionaries and innovators. As successful as we’ve been in the past, we have so much further to go. That’s where you come in. Join us!
All qualified applicants to Stanley Black & Decker are considered for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran’s status or any other protected characteristic.
We Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.
Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 58,000 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.
Who We Are
We’re the World’s largest tool company. We’re industry visionaries. We’re solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art “smart factory” products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.
Global Benefits & Perks
You’ll be rewarded with a competitive salary plus receive entitlements and benefits unique to your country of hire.
What You’ll Also Get
Career Opportunity: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.
Learning & Development:
Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).
Diverse & Inclusive Culture:
We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.
Purpose-Driven Company:
You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.
What We Do
For the builders and protectors, for the makers and explorers, for those shaping and reshaping our world through hard work and inspiration, Stanley Black & Decker provides the tools and innovative solutions you can trust to get the job done—and we have since 1843.
You repair your home and car with the tools we provide. Your car and your phone are secured with our fasteners. The things you value most can be protected by our security systems. And the roads you drive on, the bridges you cross, the energy you consume, all of these most likely came to you via one of our infrastructure systems.
We join forces to bring together the best of the best to create practical, meaningful products and services that make life easier—empowering people to do better, safer, more significant work. Innovation and excellence have powered our success, but we know there’s more we can do for the world and those who make it. Across our businesses, we’re investing in breakthrough innovation and digital excellence, striving for outperformance and increasing our focus on social responsibility.
We define success as: delivering value to our customers, colleagues and communities. Our commitment to quality, safety and sustainability helps us on our path to becoming the type of uniquely human-centered global industrial company that keeps every stakeholder in mind, while helping to make the world better.
