Commercial Finance Manager
- Recruiter
- Stanton House - Guildford
- Location
- England, Surrey
- Salary
- £350 - £400 per day
- Posted
- 29 May 2017
- Closes
- 05 Jun 2017
- Ref
- SH/5579/JW
- Contact
- Joshua White
- Job Title
- Finance Manager
- Category
- Consumer products / FMCG
- Experience Levels
- Qualified Accountant
- Contract Type
- Temporary
- Hours
- Full Time
An exceptional opportunity for a Commercial Finance Manager with outstanding commercial acumen to join a globally recognised and sought after FMCG organisation. You will be reporting directly to the Head of Commercial Finance, supporting them in building a high performing team. In order to have a positive impact and a real influence on the P&L, you will be an unrivalled business partner to Marketing.
As the Commercial Finance Manager, your role will entail, but not limited to:
- You will manage the budgets for Marketing, ensuring budget owners understand their budgets. In addition, you will be accountable for delivery on financial targets.
- Business partner Marketing, you will ensure their financial understanding and acumen is upskilled.
- You will develop best practice in the Commercial Finance team, supporting the wider finance team to build a model of excellence which will ensure unrivalled business partnering across the organisation.
- To make stakeholders aware of performance drivers you will need to have a strong understanding of historic, current and forecasted performance, highlighting any variances, risks and opportunities.
- You will ensure that you are highly approachable and that your presence is prominent on the Marketing team, ensuring of course that your presence is positive.
- As well as building actionable brand strategies, you will develop and implement report KPIs to track the Brand plan success which will also highlight success from certain brand strategies.
As the Commercial Finance Manager, you will need to be a Qualified Accountant, ACA, ACCA or CIMA, with a University degree and you will need to possess an excellent track record of delivery in commercially focused finance roles. It is crucial that you are results driven, truly focused on having a positive impact whilst working collaboratively across finance and within your business unit, Marketing. As the Commercial Finance Manager, you will need to utilise your intellect, analytical as well as interpersonal skills to impact the business and you will need to be resilient and self-motivated.