Commercial Finance Manager - Sales & Margin

Commercial Finance Manager

We’re looking for someone to join our Commercial Finance team to support the identification and realisation of the UKI sales and margin opportunity by continually challenging current thinking through providing pro-active, high-quality insight and analysis that enables the business to make informed decisions in relation to the operational delivery of the overall business strategy.

Responsibilities include menu pricing decision support, promotional strategy analysis and recommendation, food & drink innovation, loyalty strategy support, delivery strategy support, retail support, food cost of sales & waste.

What you’ll be doing:

• Support the development of a compelling vision of the direction for the dine in sales channel
• Continually challenge current thinking and, using benchmarking & best practice as well as original solutions, make recommendations on how to optimise business opportunities and minimise risk/cost to the business
• Provide pro-active, insightful, high quality decision-making support, ensuring business-wide implications are considered, that enables the business to make the best decisions regarding investment decisions
• Promotional strategy finance lead working with marketing team to have an effective promotional toolkit in place, including setting up and analysing test plans, and providing post promotion analysis and insight
• Act as business partner to the Chief Digital & Technology Officor to provide analysis and insight to support the future vision for the loyalty app including promotional modelling and analysis
• Overall responsibility for pricing decision support and recommendations, including ongoing competitor analysis and insight
• Manage the development of the budget & quarterly forecast submissions for sales – including forecasting pricing movements, covers and sales, as well as food costs and rebates, bakery & retail
• Ownership of sales trading forecast highlighting risks and opportunities whilst making recommendations to drive sales and profit margin
• Owner of food cost of sales, waste, bakery & retail planning process, providing both budget and ongoing forecasted view including highlighting areas of risk to forecast. Periodic analysis of results vs forecast
• Management of 1 direct report (business analyst)

What you’ll need:

• Qualified accountant –4-year PQE would be preferred
• Strong commercial acumen & financial modelling skills
• Strong influencing skills – proven ability to build strong relationships with potentially challenging stakeholders
• Ability to challenge stakeholders
• Experience of delivering positive outcomes in a fast-paced environment
• Previous experience in a hospitality / retail or multi-site business

Who We Are: 

Where those who love pizza can be their true self. Proud to be a Top 10 Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023.  We’ve been around since 1965, bringing pizza to the UK and have since grown to a multichannel, international brand.  Our people are at the heart of our success and everything we do, we believe you should always be able to express yourself.   

Our values and culture are made up of three key parts: use your head, show your heart and create a home.  For us, this shows up as: 

• Head - were customer centric, commercially driven and obsessed by performance in all we do 
• Heart - we show our heart, are honest and vulnerable with our teams and lead everything through our people 
• Home - we create a home, where everyone has a place at our marble table and you can truly express yourself everyday  

Inclusivity and respect are at the heart of our business and are valued by our teams, customers, and suppliers. PizzaExpress and Milano is a place where everyone is welcome, and everyone belongs.  That’s why we assess each application on the aptitude to do the job and nothing else.