
Finance Manager - Central Marketing
- Leeds
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Further develop and implement a consistent framework for marketing return on investment measurement and spend allocation across all UKI brands—becoming the go-to guide on total UKI marketing investment.
- Work closely marketing services teams (i.e. digital acquisition) to understand trends and performance across division and identifying any risks & opportunities associated with this.
- Develop and advise on marketing investment strategy in partnership with the CFO and CCO, making strategic recommendations on spend optimisation and resource allocation.
- Support the consolidation and insight of brand-level financial performance in key forums such as Monthly Business Reviews, Quarterly Forecasts, and the Long-Term Planning process.
- Completion of monthly reporting within the UKI cost pack, highlighting key trends and providing commentary on performance across UKI.
- Developing & reporting key marketing performance measurements, ensuring alignment and consistency across all brands
- Support the definition and implementation of outstanding practices across the Commercial Finance function for marketing costs.
- Business partner to the Marketing Services MD & LT to deliver headcount and cost budgets through understanding the cost base, making recommendations and modelling options.
- Ideally, you’ll have some experience of leading marketing cost budgets and modelling return on investment.
- Be curious, commercially astute, and results driven.
- Bring strong financial and analytical skills, with the ability to distil complex data into actionable insight.
- Apply commercial judgment and storytelling ability to articulate financial performance and influence decision-making.
- Navigate and influence within a matrixed, cross-functional environment, leading a broad range of senior internal partners with credibility and clarity.
- Bringing together your peers in brand finance teams to create a ‘virtual’ UKI marketing finance team
- Flexible ways of working – home or office, it’s your choice!
- £1,000 learning fund
- Unlimited holiday
- Twice-yearly bonus (with part of it guaranteed!)
- Pension contribution scheme
- Private healthcare
- Access to thousands of Udemy courses
- Invest via the Company Sharesave Scheme
- 16 hours paid volunteering time per year