Finance Manager - Clothing

We have an exciting opportunity for a Finance Manager to join our Commercial Finance team, supporting the Trading function as their business partner.

In this role, you’ll play a key part in driving performance across the nutmeg trading category by providing insightful analysis, challenging assumptions, and supporting decision-making with robust financial expertise.

What you’ll be doing

• Partnering with the Trading team to provide financial insight and analysis on sales, margin and promotional performance.
• Identifying risks, opportunities and trends, helping shape trading decisions to deliver growth and profitability.
• Analyse and understand weekly working capital variances compared to prior year and targets. Assist in the analysis & communication of forward-looking working capital forecasts to ensure targets are achievable.
• Proactively track and communicate any risks or opportunities regarding non-commercial margin expenditure against both budget and previous year's performance, ensuring timely updates.
• Monitoring cross-category freight price fluctuations and contract renewals to accurately model cost structures and forecast impact on overall commercial margin
• Building strong relationships with commercial stakeholders to ensure finance is embedded in day-to-day decision making.
• Supporting the development of category strategies by providing forward-looking analysis and scenario modelling. Proactively presenting insights and recommendations to senior management to inform decision-making.
• Collaborate with Commercial teams to build accurate sales and margin forecasts and budgets, with robust plans for delivery with clear building blocks.
• Driving continuous improvement in processes and analysis within Commercial Finance.

Why this role?

This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in shaping trading performance at Morrisons. You’ll have exposure to senior stakeholders, the chance to influence commercial decision-making, and the opportunity to make a real impact on sales and margin performance.

About you

About you

• A qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA), with strong commercial acumen.
• The confidence & ability to challenge non-finance stakeholders to deliver the right end-result
• A strong communicator, able to build trusted relationships and influence non-finance colleagues
• Resilience and the ability to adapt in an ever changing environment
• Confident in analysing complex data, with the ability to turn it into clear, actionable insigh
• Proactive, curious and solutions-focused – always looking for ways to add value.

About us

In return for all your hard work, you will receive

• 15% discount in store from the day you join us
• Additional 10% discount card for a friend or family member
• Annual bonus scheme
• Career progression and development opportunities
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Market leading pension scheme and life assurance
• Healthcare benefits including Aviva Digital GP
• ‘MyPerks’ giving you discount with over 850 retailers
• Free parking onsite
• Enhanced Family, Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Private Healthcare
• Car Allowance (company car provided in some instances)

Alive with activity, our modern Head Office is home to our corporate teams that make sure everything runs smoothly. Here, you’ll find comfy breakout areas, a coffee shop, Morrisons Daily and a subsidised restaurant. We are within commuting distance of Leeds, Manchester and the Yorkshire Dales - and we even have free parking!

At our Head Office you will expect to find supplier showcases, charity fundraising and celebrations all year round for the events that mean the most to our colleagues.

There’s more to our business as it’s fast paced and ever changing, as such we’ve got lots of fresh opportunities for you to play your part in our success. We’d love to meet you!

At Morrisons, we’re proud to be building a team that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We want every colleague to feel respected, supported and able to be themselves at work. Different voices, experiences and ways of thinking help us grow and improve and that’s good for our customers too.

We’re always looking for people from all walks of life to join us and bring their talents to our team. Together, we can build a workplace where everyone has the chance to thrive, make a difference and belong.