Commercial Finance Analyst
About the Role
Sewell Wallis is partnering with a large South Yorkshire manufacturing business based in Sheffield, in their search for a Commercial Finance Analyst.
As the Commercial Finance Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in supporting both senior stakeholders and the wider business to deliver its strategic objectives and optimise business performance. Reporting directly to the Head of Finance, you will be responsible for providing valuable financial insights across the entire business ecosystem, supplying accurate and insightful operational, financial and commercial data, analysis and reporting of the company product portfolio across all business levels and departments.
This role is critical to supporting key business decisions, strategy and objectives, whilst maintaining a collaborative and results driven environment.
What will you be doing?
Working closely with the operational and commercial teams to understand full margin elements of the company product portfolio, including:
- Regular analysis and reporting of raw material costs, including forecasting of elementals and foreign exchange and potential hedging requirements
- Understanding of full operational process of company product portfolio, incorporating standard costing into product cost and pricing mechanisms
- Daily review, analysis and informative reporting of operational costs in line with budget/forecast, including assessment of manufacturing variances such as mix/yield/price/quantity, promoting cost awareness with insight to drive action and improve future performance
- Daily review, analysis and reporting of production vs forecast, including assessment of volume/revenue/GCM
- Monthly forecasting for operational performance to GCM at a detailed level
- Identify operational process inefficiencies and suggest necessary improvements to enhance cost efficiency and business improvement
- Strengthen both proactive and reactive operational decision making by providing appropriate challenge to assumptions and proposals, including scenario modelling where necessary
- Actively review and drive improvements in KPI metrics
- Present cost models and pricing for new opportunities
What skills do we need?
- ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified
- Advanced level proficiency in Microsoft Excel
- Desire to continually improve processes
- Strong commercial acumen (preferably in a manufacturing environment)
What's on offer?
- Salary of up to £65,000
- Extremely generous bonus package paid quarterly
- Flexible start and finish times
- Pension matched up to 8%
Apply for this role below. Or for more information, contact Kayley.
To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.
