Head of Commercial Finance
- Recruiter
- Cedar Recruitment Limited
- Location
- Central London
- Salary
- c.£90,000 + excellent benefits
- Posted
- 30 Oct 2014
- Closes
- 27 Nov 2014
- Ref
- 1407-3
- Experience Levels
- Qualified Accountant
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
One of the world’s best known and highly regarded digital technology businesses is investing heavily in its fastest growing division, headquartered in Central London.
To support this growth, it is now seeking to appoint a highly impressive and charismatic Head of Commercial Finance.
Reporting to the Finance Director and providing commercial, strategic and analytical support to the executive leadership team across all functions and products, this role includes:
- Contributing to the creation of business strategy within the region, using your business acumen and strong analytical skills
- Building and leading cross-functional project teams to deliver specific company strategies across all product lines internationally
- Partnering directly with the Managing Director, Marketing Director and the rest of the leadership team to identify risks, prospects for investment revenue-generative opportunities
- Showing clear commercial nous to evaluate all channels to market in order to make investment decisions that improve the ROI on Sales and Marketing initiatives
- Leading forecasting and business analytics to drive short, medium and long-term growth
- Opportunities for domestic and international progression to a Director Level position both inside and outside of finance
- Operating as a leader; coaching and developing across the finance organisation
You will be a qualified accountant with strong analytical skills and an innate commercial understanding. You will also have demonstrable experience of acting as a business partner, supporting and challenging non-finance stakeholders. As this role involves constant interaction with senior non-finance stakeholders across the business you will need the confidence and emotional intelligence to effectively communicate at all levels. The ideal candidate will have worked in the high-tech industry and will enjoy operating in an extremely fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
This role offers the opportunity to be a pivotal driver of future business performance within a rapidly growing digital business experiencing its most exciting and fastest period of growth.