Finance Manager

Flex your finance game. Shape Gymshark’s future.
We’re taking our Management Accounting to the next level, and we need a Finance Manager with outstanding expertise, sharp strategic and commercial acumen, and top-tier business partnering skills. In this role, you’ll own one of our key areas — Revenue, COGS, Direct Costs, Brand & Marketing, or Overheads — helping us power smarter decisions and fuel our growth journey.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

• Be a lead for designing and performing the preparation of monthly management accounts, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and relevance of financial data.
• Provide comprehensive financial analysis and commentary on business performance, identifying trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Develop key performance indicators (KPIs) to track business performance and profitability.
• Be a collaborative business partner to Heads of respective departments to draw conclusions on financial implications and support cross-functional decision-making.
• Manage regular forecasting cycles, working closely with key stakeholders to ensure financial targets are stretched but achievable.
• Perform independent analysis of financial variances and proactively collaborate with departments to ensure corrective actions are taken when necessary.
• Drive continuous improvement in the management accounting processes, ensuring they are scalable and able to support the growth of the business.
• Support in the review, challenge and improvement of Balance Sheet accounting/reconciliations to ensure accuracy of the financial position, including coordination and resolution of any Risks & Opportunities.
• Manage year-end queries and support the provision of data for audit requests during the external audit process. Lead role as the key contact for the auditors for your business area.
• Lead and manage a team of junior accountants, providing guidance to deliver in line with expectations and on time. Be a mentor, deliver training, and career development support, so team is engaged and motivated.
• Foster a collaborative and high-performance culture within the finance team and across organisation.
• Ensure the team remains aligned with the company's values and strategic objectives.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

Essential Criteria:

• ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent qualification with demonstrable experience in management accounting.
• Demonstrable experience in management accounting or a similar finance role, ideally within a high-growth or scale-up organisation.
• Proven experience in preparing and analysing financial reports, budgets, and forecasts in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong knowledge of financial systems, with advanced Microsoft Office skills and experience with ERP systems (SAP). Working knowledge of BI tools (Looker, PowerBI, Tableau) with SQL/python knowledge
• Demonstrated ability to partner with senior leadership and influence key business decisions with data-driven insights.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate complex financial information to non-financial stakeholders.
• Self-starter that embraces ambiguity that is expected to be both a leader as well as a hands-on contributor.

WHAT YOU COULD ALSO HAVE:

• Experience managing or mentoring a team of finance professionals, fostering development and driving high performance.
• A forward-thinking mindset with the ability to adapt quickly to changes in a fast-paced and rapidly evolving environment.
• Experience with or interest in working in innovative industries and start-up or scale-up organisations.
• Strong business and commercial understanding, with the ability to drive strategic initiatives that create value.
• Ability to balance long-term financial goals with the need for short-term operational agility and innovation

This is a hybrid role and would require the successful candidate to attend at least THREE days a week in GSHQ, Solihull, UK.

BELONGING AT GYMSHARK.

Our mission is to be a place where everyone belongs. We’re an equal opportunities employer, and for us that means we always strive to be as inclusive as possible in all aspects of employment, right from your application. We’re committed to finding reasonable adjustments* for candidates with specific needs or have a disability during our recruitment process, and all applicants will be considered fairly and equally. We do not tolerate discrimination of any kind. *If you’d like to request a reasonable adjustment please email [email protected]. 

ABOUT US.

We’re here to unite the conditioning community. We believe that putting the sweat in today, prepares us for tomorrow. So, we give people the tools they need to reach further, go faster, be stronger. We celebrate those who show up – for themselves – to be their physical or mental best, whatever that means for them. It’s what we want for our community, and our team. A team that’s growing rapidly around the world. A collective of talented individuals working together to invent Gymshark’s future. Our plans are ambitious, and we’re looking for people who want to join us for the ride – our growth will be your growth.

THE PERKS.

Standard benefits include:

• Performance-based Bonus opportunity
• Funded Healthcare benefit
• 25 days holiday, additional day for your birthday & Bank Holidays
• Contributory Employer pension scheme
• Flexible benefits programme – including salary sacrifice EV scheme, dental insurance, cycle to work, tech scheme, holiday trading
• Gymshark Employee Discount & long service awards
• Access to High Street cashback and discounts
• Financial, Physical and Mental Wellbeing Support
• Enhanced Family Leave package
• Life Assurance

Office location specific benefits include (IQ):

• Gym Membership to The Lifting Club (LC)
• Onsite lunch provision & coffee bars
• EV charge points available