We’re Pentland Brands: a global family business behind some of the world’s most iconic active and lifestyle brands. We bring integrity, energy and ambition to our work, setting high standards and striving to deliver great outcomes without ego.
Design cycling apparel built for movement, endurance and the ride ahead.
At Pentland Brands, every role helps move our brands forward. Whether you’re supporting our people, improving our systems, growing our commercial performance, strengthening operations or shaping better ways of working, your impact reaches across a portfolio of iconic brands used by consumers around the world.
This role will play a key role in supporting the Marketing team with financial insight, spend tracking, and planning. Working closely with the Senior Marketing Business Partner and wider FP&A team to deliver effective cost control, forecasting, and commercial analysis.
What you’ll be doing:
Support marketing spend tracking and forecasting, ensuring alignment to budgets and providing timely visibility of cost commitments, phasing, and variances against plan.
Own data gathering and validation from Marketing stakeholders, ensuring accuracy of inputs for forecasts, actuals, and budget submissions into OneStream.
Build and maintain simple, robust financial models to evaluate marketing investments, campaign ROI, and brand spend effectiveness.
Deliver monthly marketing performance analysis, linking spend to brand and commercial outcomes and highlighting key drivers, risks, and opportunities to stakeholders.
Support month-end close activities for marketing cost areas, including transaction coding validation in SAP/BW and preparation of variance commentary.
Contribute to the preparation of monthly and quarterly reports and presentations for communication to Marketing leadership and wider Finance stakeholders.
Support initial brand analysis and commentary, translating financial data into clear, structured messages that marketing teams can use in their decision-making.
Learn and apply financial analysis techniques with support from the FP&A Manager and Senior Marketing Business Partner, developing capability in commercial finance over time.
What you’ll bring:
CA/ICWA/ACCA/ MBA (Finance) or equivalent fully qualified with 2+ years of relevant experience; with years of relevant finance experience.
Experience in FP&A or commercial finance roles, with exposure to marketing cost analysis, campaign economics, or brand finance considered a strong advantage.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills – able to present financial information clearly and concisely to non-finance audiences, build trusted relationships with Marketing teams, and influence decisions through insight rather than seniority.
Strong Excel and financial modelling skills, with the ability to handle and interpret high volumes of data from multiple sources accurately and efficiently.
Analytical mindset with a commercial curiosity – interested in understanding what drives brand performance, not just what the numbers say.
Ability to work with a range of stakeholders across Finance and Marketing in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, managing multiple deadlines with agility and precision.
Detail-oriented with a track record of accuracy in financial reporting and data management, desirable having familiarity with SAP, BW, or OneStream (or equivalent ERP/EPM systems).
Why Pentland Brands?
Pentland Brands is the name behind some of the world’s best-known sport, outdoor and lifestyle brands, including Speedo, Berghaus, Canterbury, Endura, Ellesse, Kickers and Mitre.
We are a global family business with a clear purpose: pioneering brands that make life better. Across our teams, functions and locations, we work together to create products, experiences and partnerships that help people live more active, confident and positive lives.
Joining Pentland Brands means becoming part of a business where your work can have real reach, across multiple brands, markets, teams and disciplines. It is a place for people who want to contribute, collaborate, improve how things are done and help build the future of brands with heritage, ambition and global impact.
Perks & Benefits
Alongside a competitive salary and discretionary bonus, we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing, flexibility, and life outside work. This includes generous holiday allowance, hybrid and flexible working, employee transportation, pension and gratuity contributions, wellbeing support, medical, personal accident & term life insurance cover.
You can find full details of our benefits and perks on our UK Benefits page.
The Interview Process
We want our interview process to feel clear, straightforward, and supportive. If your experience and expectations look like a strong match for the role, here’s what you can expect next:
Talent Team Intro Call - A 30-minute video call with our Talent Team to get to know each other, talk through the role and your experience, and answer any questions you have.
Experience Interview - A more in-depth interview (usually online) with the hiring manager to explore your skills, experience and approach, and how these align with the role, our principles, and our ways of working.
Final Interview - A final in-person interview at our office, focused on deeper discussion and practical application, giving you the chance to meet more of the team and see Pentland Brands in action.
