Commercial Finance Manager

An award winning supply chain business are currently looking for a new Commercial Finance Manager to join their already strong finance team. The key objective of the role is to drive performance and profitability through analysis, insight and business partnering.

Your key responsibilities

- Play a key part in helping the business to understand key areas of financial focus such as customer profitability, margin analysis by customer and the cost effectiveness of the sites. Work with key stakeholders to recommend improvements and reduce costs
- Support strategic decision-making by providing high quality, accurate and timely business information. Be able to understand, think through, and communicate the implications of decisions on financial metrics, including the P&L and cash flow
- Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders through frequent communication and timely finance reviews
- Proactively support the business with forecasting, appropriate financial models and reports
- Be comfortable communicating well at all levels, and able to present viewpoint succinctly
- Ability to analyse and interpret large volumes of financial and operational data and draw conclusions. Use findings to provide an appropriate level of objective challenge to stakeholders, including the identification of risks and opportunities
- Draw on the expertise of others to help interpret financial information and trends
- Understand the end to end process for each customer, from contract to invoicing. Be able to challenge and support operational stakeholders when measuring profitability and delivering accurate invoicing
- Ability to manage and prioritise workload, giving the flexibility to handle operational issues whilst still hitting finance deadlines
- Review period end reporting produced and present to required stakeholders in the context of the operational performance
- Ability to identify areas for improvement and implement change effectively within a continually changing environment
- Support in the development of others, and be able to coach and communicate finance data to non-finance colleagues
- Work with Finance and other teams to ensure new businesses are embedded into required reports and invoicing processes

Ideally you will be a Qualified Commercially focused accountant with a background in a fast paced business and some business partnering experience. You must be comfortable getting stuck in to all aspects of the business and have a can do attitude. You will be presenting to others on a regular basis, so confidence and enjoyment in this task is a must.

You will be rewarded with a competitive salary, a friendly and welcoming team and the opportunity to progress your career internally and externally with this wide reaching and varied role being a stellar addition to your CV.