Commercial Finance Manager

Commercial Finance Manager | 45-55k | Kent

Opportunity

Our client, a leading international manufacturing business with an impressive reputation is seeking to appoint a Finance Manager to look after their transactional finance processes and to review key controls across the commercial finance function. Managing the customer relations function from a finance perspective and also acting as a business partner, this individual will ensure relationships and standards are maintained and provide support to the senior finance team.

Key areas of responsibility to include:

• Financial process ownership of the order to cash process
• Review and implementation of processes and controls
• Responsible for ensuring recoverability of debt, risk management and cash flow optimisation
• Supporting the AR, pricing, working capital and customer administration functions, including overseeing query resolutions
• Supporting and providing direction to the pricing function and understanding complex customer rebate terms
• Developing and motivating a team
• Providing in depth analysis by customer
• Supporting the Financial Controller with the month end close, budgeting and forecasting
• Ad hoc project work and analysis

Candidate Profile

• Previous experience managing a team and overseeing transactional finance, pricing or order to cash functions
• A solid understanding of how a commercial business runs and the impact of the finance function
• Outstanding communication skills, including the proven ability to develop a team and build internal relationships and external customer relationships
• A real passion for process improvements and advancing processes and controls
• Experience of an ERP system such as SAP or Oracle
• A recognised finance qualification would be advantageous but candidate’s qualified by experience will also be considered