Finance Manager – Gross Margin B2B  

Leeds / Hybrid - 3 days per week in the office  

 About the Role  

At SharkNinja, we innovate fast and execute with precision. As Finance Manager for our B2B channel, you’ll own the gross margin accounting and internal reporting processes that power strategic decisions for some of our most critical partnerships. This role is about more than numbers—it’s about driving insight, influencing outcomes, and ensuring we deliver profitable growth in a dynamic marketplace.  

• Lead B2B Margin Accounting: Manage accurate and timely accounting for gross margin across B2B channels, including cost of goods sold, rebates, and promotional spend.  

• Deliver High-Impact Reporting: Produce internal reports that highlight performance drivers and actionable insights for leadership and commercial teams, focusing on risks & opportunities to the P&L in the revenue deductions space.  

• Partner with Commercial & Operations: Collaborate closely with Sales, Supply Chain, and FP&A teams to understand margin impacts and optimise gross margin reporting.  

• Balance sheet reporting: Interrogate and challenge GM accrual balances and look for areas where reporting clarity and general balance sheet health can be optimised.  

• Drive Process Excellence: Identify opportunities to automate, streamline, and enhance reporting accuracy and speed.  

• Internal Controls: Own internal reporting controls and be the first level of review within your area, ensuring all key controls have SOX compliant preparer and reviewer procedures.  

• Manage and Mentor a Team: fostering a culture of accountability, growth and collaboration. 

What You’ll Bring  

• Experience: 5+ years in finance/accounting roles, ideally with exposure to B2B or e-commerce channels.  

• Technical Skills: Strong knowledge of gross margin accounting, trade terms, and promotional spend. Advanced Excel; ERP experience (Oracle or similar) preferred. Strong knowledge of IFRS15 and Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) is preferred.  

• Commercial Acumen: Ability to link financial performance to business drivers and influence decision-making.  

• Analytical Mindset: Skilled at interpreting complex data and presenting clear, actionable insights.  

• Agility & Drive: Thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with a proactive, results-oriented approach.  

• Qualification: Fully qualified accountant in any of CIMA, ACCA, ACA, or equivalent.  

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Management Accountant – Gross Margin 

Leeds / Hybrid - 3 days per week in office (LS15 8ZB) 

About the role

As a Management Accountant in the Gross Margin team, you will own the gross margin accounting and internal reporting processes that power strategic decisions for some of our most critical partnerships. You will deliver month-end reporting, variance analysis, and provide valuable insights to help shape decision-making and drive future strategies. You will act as a trusted partner to Commercial and Finance stakeholders. Your ability to take ownership of processes, combined with your passion for financial accuracy, will play a critical role in ensuring SharkNinja’s continued growth.  

• Month-End Support: Preparation of management accounts, ensuring accuracy, timeliness and understanding of key movements. 

• Variance Analysis: Analyse financial data, providing clear explanations and actionable insights on any significant variances to budget or forecast.  

• Balance Sheet Reconciliation: Own and perform balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring accuracy, completeness and timely resolution of reconciling items. 

• Process Improvement: Identify areas for process improvement within accounting systems and reporting processes and lead on agreed improvements. 

• Ad Hoc Financial Analysis: Provide financial analysis and support for key business projects, strategic initiatives, and cross-functional teams.  

• Business Partnering: Collaborate closely with Sales and FP&A teams to optimise gross margin reporting.  

Who You'll Bring:

• Analytical Thinker: You are a natural problem-solver who loves working with numbers and uncovering insights.  

• Detail-Oriented: You understand the importance of accuracy and attention to detail in everything you do.  

• Collaborative: You thrive in a team environment, working alongside colleagues across departments to achieve common goals.  

• Proactive & Adaptable: In a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment, you are adaptable and ready to take on new challenges and responsibilities.  

• Passionate: You're excited about finance and passionate about contributing to the company's success.  

Skills & Experience  

• Experience: Previous experience in a finance/ accounting role, with exposure to month-end processes, variance analysis, and financial reporting.  

• Technical Skills: Knowledge of gross margin accounting, strong Excel skills, ERP experience (Oracle or similar) is preferred. Knowledge of IFRS15 and Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) is preferred.  

• Qualification: Studying towards a financial qualification such as ACCA/CIMA.  

• Communication: Good communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to explain financial information to non-financial stakeholders.  

• Organised: You can juggle multiple tasks, prioritise effectively, and meet deadlines without compromising on quality.  

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The Role 

This is an excellent opportunity to work alongside our established team who will support you to utilise and enhance your advisory skills and experience. You will work alongside some of the most experienced practitioners in the field advising the boards, management teams, lenders and shareholders of companies which are underperforming and/or facing any financial stress. 

Our North team has recently led a number of high profile regional insolvencies (including the Black Sheep Brewery, WN VTech and TXM Plant Administrations), as well as working on complex and challenging advisory assignments  We work with a full spectrum of companies from SME to PLC.

As a Senior Consultant you will have the opportunity to use your commercial awareness and professional expertise, along with leveraging the skills and expertise of others, to deliver the best possible experience and outcomes for our clients. 

Key Responsibilities

Client Service

• Is a key team member working on financial restructuring engagements on a day-to-day basis, including managing junior staff.
• Produces high quality deliverables within planned timescales.
• Develops ‘distinctive’ client relationships.
• Innovates new approaches.
• Supports and contributes to client presentations.
• Helps to meet team specific performance targets.
• Applies understanding of financial engagement economics and engagement risk and quality management.

Knowledge Acquisition

• Builds client relationship skills, sector knowledge and continues to develop leadership skills.
• Continues to build technical expertise, broader business advisory and people management skills.
• Understands the market, topical issues and our Restructuring propositions.

People and Leadership

• Supports leadership in creating an inclusive environment.
• Proactively supports the development of colleagues by providing timely feedback and identifying development opportunities e.g. mentoring/ buddying, supervising less experienced colleagues.
• Continues to develop personal brand.

Business Development

• Starts to own elements of and proactively contribute to business development.
• Demonstrate an expanding network of external and internal peer level contacts which provide opportunities to meet and share ideas on initiatives.
• Assist in the running of a sector or marketing key account team, including participating in, and organising, marketing events.
• Assists in preparing research documents, pitches and client presentations.

Key Skills & Experience

Basic Qualifications

• Strong academic background at degree level.
• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA or equivalent), both time and exam qualified.
• Analytical with strong IT skills e.g., Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook packages.
• Demonstrates knowledge of Restructuring Services/Insolvency or strong transferrable skills gained in a client facing role within a professional services company (e.g., corporate audit).
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to support working in a high-performance team.
• Commitment and willingness to work under pressure, sometimes long hours, always putting the client at the centre.
• Ambition to learn and develop further.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct relevant experience of Restructuring Services/Insolvency gained within a professional services company or a Financial Advisory boutique.
• Flexibility to transfer skills into complementary offerings such as Debt Advisory or Performance Improvement if market conditions change.

The Financial Advisory Team at Teneo

Teneo’s global Financial Advisory business advises corporates, creditors and other financial stakeholders in situations of financial stress and distress. No two situations are the same. Our advice and approach is tailored to each situation and each client. At Teneo, we believe such occurrences present new opportunities for our clients. Opportunities to restore value, raise new capital, pivot in a new direction and ultimately, identify certainty amidst chaos. Teneo partners with clients to find viable opportunities that will protect and enhance value and help them to build strategies that will most benefit their business and/or investment goals.

Integrating the disciplines of financial advisory, management consulting, investor relations, strategic communications, government affairs, risk analysis and talent advisory, Teneo’s global Financial Advisory team guides companies and their stakeholders through periods of uncertainty and stress. We help address the challenges a business faces, whether that is targeted performance improvement to Financial Advisory, or delivering a route to recover value, our focus is delivering certainty from uncertainty.

What can we offer you?

New joiners are supported by an induction programme.  As well as this we offer a whole host of benefits and reward including;

• Market-leading Salary
• 28 days holiday
• Cash benefits allowance
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Company pension scheme
• Extensive investment in personal development & learning
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave (depending on length of service) and shared parental leave
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work schemes
• Regular social, cultural and charitable activities

About Teneo

Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. We partner with our clients globally to do great things for a better future.

Drawing upon our global team and expansive network of senior advisors, we provide advisory services across our five business segments on a stand-alone or fully integrated basis to help our clients solve complex business challenges. Our clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions, and organizations.

Our full range of advisory services includes strategic communications, investor relations, financial transactions and restructuring, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, organizational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance, ESG and DE&I.

The firm has more than 1,600 employees located in 40+ offices around the world.

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