Commercial Finance Manager

Seasalt began in 1981 with a small shop in Penzance, selling workwear to local mariners and practical overalls to artists. Today, we’ve grown into a thriving omnichannel retailer with over 80 UK and Ireland stores, 400+ wholesale stockists, and a growing international and online footprint. As a B Corp and winner of both Drapers “Best Place to Work” and CIPD’s “Best Recognition Programme”, we care deeply about our people, our communities and our long-term impact. Our Head Office teams provide the foundations that empower our people to drive sustainable growth across the UK and international markets. As Commercial Finance Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping financial insight, challenging assumptions, and supporting strategic decision making. You’ll assist with budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis across our multi channel retail business, partnering closely with senior stakeholders across our various sales channels and cost centres. This is a full-time, permanent role, and as part of our Seasalt Connected approach to ways of working, this role will be based flexibly across our Cornwall head office locations (minimum 40% of working week) and remotely within the UK. You’ll help us by: Support the annual budget process and in year reforecast cycles across sales channels and overhead departments. Build robust, driver based forecast models that reflect the performance dynamics, ensuring that all budgets and forecasts align with business strategy, financial targets, and trading expectations. Consolidating business inputs into a coherent financial plan, providing clear variance analysis and insight. Owning the delivery of monthly management accounts for sales channels and key overhead departments. Producing insightful reporting packs including P&L analysis, KPI trends, variance explanations, and channel performance drivers. Providing commentary for Board/Exec reporting, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and commercial relevance. Coordinating with Financial Accounting to ensure journals, accruals, and provisions are accurate and timely. Tracking performance against budget, reforecast and prior year, clearly articulating underlying trends and highlighting risks, opportunities and actions for the upcoming months. Acting as the primary finance partner to channel leads e.g. stores, online, partners, wholesale. Supporting functional heads e.g. Marketing, Property, Retail Operations with financial insight, cost control, and investment appraisal. Challenging and influencing commercial decisions with data driven analysis and recommendations. Translating financial performance into clear, actionable insights for non finance stakeholders. Leading monthly channel and departmental performance reviews, identifying risks, opportunities, and required actions. Working collaboratively with the finance team to ensure accurate reporting, alignment on key metrics and supporting the development of financial processes to improve accuracy and efficiency. The skills you’ll be sharing with the team: Proven experience in a commercial finance or finance business partnering role. Ability to simplify complex financial information and influence decision making. Experience working in a fast paced environment with multiple priorities High attention to detail combined with the ability to think strategically. Excel and analytical skills. A great influencer, with the ability to confidently represent the business with stakeholders (internal and external) Highly numerate and literate, with the ability to effectively communicate financial topics to non-finance professionals Tenacious nature with the ability to problem solve Possess the authority, credibility and integrity to command respect and hold teams or areas to account when required Ability to translate operational requirements into finance team tasks. Why we hope you’ll love working with us: The success of Seasalt is down to the skill and hard work of our team. We don't just want to attract the best and brightest people to come and work with us, we want you to stay and grow with us. As well as doing everything we can to support your development professionally, we believe encouraging personal growth is just as important. So you can fulfil your passion and purpose, not just at work but in life, we offer a range of benefits that are designed to enhance your career and wellbeing: Salary: up to £42,000 depending on experience (Band 3) 34 days paid annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing with length of service Attractive 50% employee discount Flexible benefits allowance to personalise your benefits package Private Medical Scheme including 24/7 virtual GP Free access to our Employee Assistance Programme through Retail Trust with 24/7 support Pension plan with generous 7% employer contributions Life assurance programme Enhanced family leave policies Flexible working opportunities with our hybrid working approach Learning and Development opportunities Do Good Things with our two days per year paid volunteering opportunities Employee networks to develop and provide support to our people, including the Inclusion & Belonging Network 100s of savings on top retailers and gym memberships through our discount hub At Seasalt we have a brilliant team of people – they're what make Seasalt a fantastic place to work. We love to celebrate uniqueness and are committed to making Seasalt a place where everyone feels they belong. As an inclusive employer, we want to invite a diverse range of candidates to apply for our roles. We aim to work flexibly where possible and value a range of perspectives - diversity of thought helps us to grow – so please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come to work every day. We're happy to help with any adjustments to our recruitment process and beyond. Just drop us an email at careers@seasaltcornwall.co.uk Closing date for applications is 17/08/2026, however our roles can close earlier so we would recommend applying as soon as you are able. IND-843