Commercial Financial Controller
- Recruiter
- MDM Resourcing
- Location
- Manchester
- Salary
- Up to £65,000 + bonus + benefits
- Posted
- 15 Jun 2021
- Closes
- 13 Jul 2021
- Ref
- GW1475
- Job Title
- Financial Controller
- Category
- Technology
- Experience Levels
- Qualified Accountant
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Our client is one the UK’s leading cloud services businesses. Private Equity backed, the group is driving high growth in each of its service divisions. A relatively new division offers Azure and Amazon Web Services business cloud solutions to business customers. This division is expected to grow rapidly over the next few years and will become a key strategic cornerstone of the whole group. The division has three main revenue lines: platform, support and set up / consultancy.
A Commercial Financial Controller role is being created to lead the finance function for the division.
The Role
Reporting to the Group Finance Director this is a broad role whose remit encompasses both strategic and day-to-day and ranges across business partnering, financial management and financial planning and analysis (FP&A). Key responsibilities include:-
Build relationships with the Sales and Technical teams, specifically in areas of:
Business Partnering: Support the Sales and Technical teams in Demand planning; Capacity planning; Utilisation efficiency; Standard costing - build a framework to help identify the profitability of the support and consultancy revenue lines within the division; System - take ownership of the third-party gateway system that is used to interrogate the AWS and Azure clouds for revenues and costs.
Financial management: Ensure accuracy of P&L; prepare and review Management Accounts; Reconciliation of revenue and costs by customer to source operating system and AWS and Azure cloud platforms; Margin management - ensure consistency across periods for platform revenues, and report on utilisation rates as part of margin reporting on support and consultancy revenues; Financial controls and processes; Presentation of monthly reporting pack.
Financial planning and analysis: create and maintain robust forecasting and budgeting models; KPIs – build a set of metrics through which to monitor performance; Variance analysis.
The Candidate
- Qualified accountant with experience of working with Azure and / or AWS billing (essential);
- A strong communicator, able to understand and explain complex issues;
- Strong analytical skills including ability to build models to interrogate data;
- A driven and confident individual who is keen to develop as the business grows;
- At ease working at all levels from Group CEO to dealing with day to day basics.
An excellent career opportunity to join one of the North West’s leading technology businesses in a commercially oriented role in a very high growth division.