Head of Commercial Finance
- Recruiter
- Hays Senior Finance
- Location
- England, Oxfordshire, Witney
- Salary
- £80000.00 - £100000.00 per annum
- Posted
- 24 Jul 2021
- Closes
- 21 Aug 2021
- Ref
- 3972906
- Contact
- Petra Tyrrell
- Job Title
- Head of Finance
- Category
- Travel / Tourism
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Head of Commercial Finance opportunity offering upto £100,000 plus benefits and based in West Oxfordshire
Head of Commercial Finance
£80,000-£100,000
Witney, Oxfordshire (2-3 days in the office required per week)
Permanent, Full time
Your new company
An award-winning and PE backed specialist travel business based in West Oxfordshire is seeking a Head of Commercial Finance to join their fast-growing business and become a key member of the Finance Leadership Team, with a reporting line into the CFO and UK Managing Director. You will be the Business Partner to the UK leadership team to support commercial decision making at both trading and strategic levels, with the aim to drive operational performance and revenue generation across the business.
Your new role
As the successful candidate you will be responsible for the P&L and cash ownership for the UK&I business, providing commentary on performance vs budgets, alongside challenging and analysing long range forecasts and divisional business planning. You will also be responsible for the delivery of divisional trading reports and direction, where you will maintain strategic KPI's, ROI, productivity, and profitability through ownership of the pricing and margin strategy.
As a key member of the UK divisional leadership team, you will partner across all aspects of the business with data-driven decision support, and management of the UK Commercial Finance Team and Group Finance function lead. In doing so, you will review the team skills and capabilities, and develop to align with key business objectives, alongside identifying and leading operation process improvement initiatives to drive productivity. Operational and strategic project management will also be key to your success, with particular focus on new business development initiatives and reporting improvements.
What you'll need to succeed
To be successful you will be a qualified Accountant (ACA, CA, CIMA or ACCA) with strong commercial accounting and corporate FP&A experience and is comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders. It is also essential that you can demonstrate track record in successful execution of client engagements and leading special projects, with specific pricing experience being desirable. In addition, you will possess high commercial acumen, excellent verbal and written communication, high accuracy and attention for detail, whilst proving effective people management through leading form the front in collaboration and best practice operational rigour.
What you'll get in return
This is a permanent and full-time role offering upto £80,000-£100,000 (experience dependent) plus very competitive benefits. You will also gain the opportunity to join a high performing leadership team within an industry-leading business that holds strong external backing from renowned private equity.
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