Finance Director
- Recruiter
- Trace Recruitment
- Location
- London
- Salary
- £60k - 70k per year + plus benefits
- Posted
- 05 Jan 2022
- Closes
- 02 Feb 2022
- Ref
- ALE04J
- Contact
- Andy Lee
- Job Title
- Finance Director
- Experience Levels
- Qualified Accountant
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Finance Director (International), Marketing Agency in Pharma, c£65-75k
FD role for an EU territory of a large US Group. This creative powerhouse requires a commercial finance professional to lead a pharma focused business on its trading outside of the US. You will work alongside a Client Finance Analyst and have broad revenue, project, and profitability responsibility.
It’s a great role for a finance professional ready to move into a leadership role with real autonomy and ownership of a set of P&Ls and company performance.
Some of your responsibilities will include:
- Partner with the business leads to ensure commercial rigour is applied in day to day decision making, and that you are supporting them in delivering their commercial goals
- To be the commercial face at the appropriate meetings –instigating commercial rigour from the top down and bottom up
- To champion the appropriate use of the relevant systems & business intelligence so that we have accurate data to better forecast, and to oversee system developmentto meet and exceed future business needs
- To ensure commercial rigour and adherence necessary governance in commercial relationships
- Take commercial responsibility for managing costs, by providing insightful analysis of trends/ issues with action-oriented solutions for managers to implement – e.g. salary and bonus forecasting, cost management, resource allocation, budgetary control
Qualifications and skills required:
- Qualified Accountant via ACA/ACCA/CIMA
- A strong & experienced commercial candidate that must have specific experience within the media sector
- Commercially focussed, with a proven track record of identifying and selling-in commercial opportunities
- Evidence of leadership & collaboration capabilities and good people management skills
- Proficiency in MS Office, PowerPoint, Word and advanced Excel skills
- Inspiring presentation skills and clear communication skills – both written and verbal
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