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About the Role

This newly created role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on our fast-growing brand. You will ensure sales growth, promotional activity, marketing investment, pricing decisions, and new product launches deliver profitable, sustainable returns. You will collaborate with commercial teams, business partnering with Sales, Innovation, and Marketing functions. Working closely with the CFO, you will help steer smart commercial decisions, shape investments across customer and consumer, and build commercial financial models to assess the effectiveness of promotions, JBPs, trade, and consumer marketing.

Responsibilities

Partner with Sales, Marketing, Innovation and other commercial teams.
Challenge and support commercial decisions.
Provide financial insight to drive profitable revenue growth.
Influence stakeholders on pricing, promotions and investment decisions.
Lead commercial budgeting and forecasting processes.
Develop sales and margin forecasts.
Identify risks and opportunities against plan.
Ensure financial targets are realistic and achievable.
Evaluate promotional activity before and after execution.
Assess ROI of customer investments and marketing spend.
Support Joint Business Plans (JBPs) with key retailers and distributors.
Optimise trade spend to maximise profitability.
Support pricing strategy and customer profitability analysis.
Analyse sales mix, margins and price elasticity.
Recommend actions to improve net sales value (NSV) and gross margin.
Identify growth opportunities across customers, distributors and channels.
Own monthly commercial performance reports insight.
Analyse volume, revenue and margin variances to deliver key insights.
Monitor KPIs and communicate performance trends.
Provide actionable insights to senior management.
Manage commercial investment budgets.
Ensure accurate accruals and prepayments.
Support period-end close activities.
Maintain strong financial controls and governance.
Assist with audit work related to commercial accruals.
Support innovation projects with business cases and P&Ls.
Evaluate new product profitability.
Assess launch performance against expectations.
Provide financial input to stage-gate approval processes.
Manage and develop the two Commercial Finance Analysts.
Build commercial finance capability across the organisation.
Improve financial understanding among non-finance stakeholders.
Drive continuous improvement and automation initiatives.
Contribute to the Brighter Future Sustainability Strategy and company's linked OKRs.
Support your function and any direct report(s) to contribute too.

Requirements

FMCG experience within branded food and drink.
International experience, including working in a business that sells through international retailers and distributors.
Proven Revenue Growth Management experience.
Experience developing and leading a team.
Strong commercial acumen.
Advanced financial modelling and Excel skills.
Confident business partnering, influencing and stakeholder management.
Forecasting and analytical expertise.
A professional finance qualification (ACCA, CIMA, ACA or equivalent).
Familiarity with UK, European, US and ANZ markets.
All applicants must have the right to work in the United Kingdom.

Skills

Financial modelling
Excel
Business partnering
Influencing
Stakeholder management
Forecasting
Analytical expertise
Revenue Growth Management
Team leadership

Location

United Kingdom

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Team leadership experience
Advanced financial modelling experience

Education Level

Professional finance qualification (ACCA, CIMA, ACA or equivalent)

Benefits

Medicash, Private Health Scheme & Life Insurance
Enhanced Baby Leave (sixteen weeks off on full pay)
Remote emotional support via Health Assured
Discretionary annual bonus based on company performance
Paid sick leave
Respect, trust, and honesty
25 days holiday plus public holidays
Additional days off with long service
Salary Extra - Discounts and Vouchers
Birthday off
Team volunteer days
Cycle to work scheme

About the Company

Little Moons is a fast-growing and dynamic business.
Roles and responsibilities can change and grow quickly and at scale.
We provide support, guidance, and training.

Equal Opportunity

To be engaged, you must feel included and valued, so we have built, and nurtured, a culture where inclusiveness is not a buzzword, but a way of being.
Our approach to diversity is simple, it’s about embracing everyone, and everyone is welcome at Little Moons.
We are committed to welcoming everyone, regardless of gender identity, orientation or expression.
We are diverse in age, race, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and perspective.
Our diversity fuels our innovation, brings diversity of thought, and connects us closer to our customers and the communities we serve.