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Commercial Finance Manager

Job description

An outstanding opportunity to join a high growth business in a brand new role in their commercial finance team. This position will be appointed on a 6 month fixed term contract and on a permanent basis, so whether you are looking for your next interim assignment or a long term permanent basis, this role is worth consideration.

This is a high profile and highly visible role where you will gain an in-depth understanding of the commercial value drivers that impact both the business and customer base. You'll work closely with teams across finance and the wider business, including Sales and Marketing, improving commercial awareness and supporting actions to improve client growth and profitability.

This business is offering long term home working and flexibility over working hours and can therefore consider candidates based in South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and in the East Midlands.

Duties will include;

* Working closely with the CFO and Heads of Departments, you will partner the Sales and Marketing teams to provide regular sales performance reporting, forecasting, reviews and insightful commentary regarding customer growth and profitability.
* Supporting the continued development of a number of weekly and monthly reports to help understand the revenue and customer profitability performance; providing insightful commentary, highlighting risks, opportunities and recommendations to improve performance across the Group.
* Creating and using KPIs to determine actions to improve customer profitability and drive performance.
* Leading and managing the key financial planning processes within the Group Commercial teams
* Ensuring costs are well understood and controlled across the Commercial teams, particularly Sales and Marketing; providing insight into the return on investment of marketing and business development spend.
* Working alongside the Marketing team to continue the development of new visual dashboards, analysis and KPIs to help the business implement new business improvement projects.
* Provide decision support, ad hoc analysis, financial models, projections and investigations.

Suitable candidates will;

- Be qualified CIMA, ACA or ACCA
- Have substantial commercial finance experience partnering Sales and Marketing teams from the retail sector
- Be a 'people person' with the ability to build rapport and effective business relationships at all levels
- Be driven, assertive and ambitious

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.

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