Commercial Finance Manager, Gousto
1+ day a week in office
Recipe boxes delivered to your door
Job no longer available
Recipe boxes delivered to your door
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
1+ day a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Gousto's mission is to make the food in our boxes more sustainable.
Role
Who you are
- Previous experience working within commercial finance is essential
- Fully qualified (ACCA, ACA or CIMA)
- Excellent communicator, with the ability to succinctly summarise complex financial information in an easy-to-understand manner for stakeholders of any level / function
- Good management skills managing commercial finance analysts
- Ability to build great relationships with people from across the business
- Self-starter, with a real bias for action
- Curious and proactive. We seek to understand problems deeply and are proactive and fast in anticipating future needs (business and customers). Speed and clarity matter!
- Outstanding senior stakeholder management
- Strong commercial and analytical mindset, which supports you in prioritising your work, as well as prioritising what’s right for our customers
- Resilience is key! We want a confident individual that pushes through in the toughest of times. Reflection, resistance and purpose is what will move you and the team forward
What the job involves
- We have an exciting opportunity in the form of a Finance Manager in the Commercial Finance team! Reporting into the Commercial Finance Director you will manage two commercial finance analysts as well partnering teams in our Choice Tribe including, Buying, Food Process, Recipe Development and Menu Planning to name a few!
- Business partner the Choice Tribe Leads with the tools to deliver commercial success and outstanding financial results:
- Deliver robust, timely, accurate and useful financial information and analysis
- Drive performance against budget & OKRs, challenging stakeholders on variances and driving actions to mitigate against risks
- Raise the bar for the standard of tribe commercial analysis, ensuring we continually learn and seek to improve our commercially-driven mindset as a tribe
- Work with business partners to develop reliable short- and medium- term forecasting/ budgeting, ensuring that planning processes are geared towards action, mitigating risks and maximising opportunities
- Work with tribe leads to build the long-term plan for the areas & budgets owned by key stakeholders
- Support the creation of relevant business cases for investment and/or proposition decisions in the Choice tribe
- Understand the ROI of tech and non-tech resource allocations in the Choice tribe
- Hold the Choice squads to account for delivering on financial OKRs, reporting on performance and hosting regular progress meetings
- Support the creation of relevant business cases for investment and/or proposition decisions in the Choice tribe
- Understand the ROI of tech and non-tech resource allocations in the Choice tribe
- Be actively involved in the quarterly / half-yearly OKR setting process, financialising opportunities with your team where possible and ensuring decisions are commercially-driven
- Develop and grow an incredibly-motivated team. Develop their skills in financial analysis, problem-solving, stakeholder management and leadership
Salary benchmarks
Our take
There is an accelerating consumer need to eat healthily, sustainably, and at value. Gousto aims to meet this need with its meal-kit delivery service, which offers pre-packaged ingredients and recipe instructions. It sets itself apart with more than 60 different recipes to choose from each week - a third of which are customisable.
In 2021, Gousto sold more than 90 million meals, amounting to three meals every second, a figure that is on the rise. It is part of The UK Plastics Pact, which aims for 100% reusable, recyclable and compostable plastic by 2025. As a member, Gousto has committed to eliminating problematic plastics, stimulating innovation and helping to build a stronger recycling system in the UK.
Gousto became a B Corp certified company for its sustainability efforts. Following huge recent investments, the now unicorn company is sure to continue its growth over the coming years as more consumers switch to convenient online grocery shopping.
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42% female employees
35% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Team energy
"The energy at Gousto is infectious! There's always a way to get involved in the things you're most passionate about. Everyone is so enthusiastic..."
Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)
Feb 2023
$65.3m
LATE VC
Jan 2022
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $371.3m
Company benefits
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays), + a holiday day added each year (up to 30 days), + buy up to 5 days extra holiday
- 40% Gousto discount, 25% for friends and family, and first box free
- Private healthcare
- Gym and ClassPass membership
- Cycle to work scheme
- Referral scheme
- Company pension
- Quarterly team socials and mixed team events
- Gousto stash - hoodie, notepad, mug
- Free coffee, tea, fruit and ice cream
- Free beer, wine and soft drinks on Fridays
Company values
- Dream - We’ve got huge ambition and believe everything is possible - Curious, bold and resilient, we’ve got an insatiable appetite to learn and grow
- Deliver - We work at pace and focus on impact, taking ownership of the solution and raising the bar every step of the way
- Care - We obsess over our customers, doing the right thing for them and for the planet. We are one team, supporting and celebrating one another
Company HQ
Hammersmith, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Timo Boldt
(CEO)Spent 4 years in Finance at Rothschild and a hedge fund before founding Gousto in 2012. Sits on the Digital Advisory Board at Unilever.
People progressing
Joined as Operations Development Director, being promoted to EVP Operations after 1 year, and has since become Chief People Officer.
Joined as a Customer Care Agent in 2014, and is now Head of Customer Care.
Joined as PR Manager, being promoted to Senior Brand and PR Manager after 1 year and again to Head of Brand Marketing and PR after 3 years.
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