Commercial Finance Manager

LanesGgroup; Preston; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job description

Sapphire Utility Solutions are looking for an experienced Finance Business Partner due to expansion.

The Finance Business Partner role will work with the operational business delivering commercial and analytical information to support an exciting and growing business. Providing financial business partnering to the commercial team, you'll be drilling down into the P&L and wider MI to really shine a light on how the business can deliver optimum performance and rapid but well-managed growth.

You will be an experienced accountant who can demonstrate good management accounting skills and a flair for commercial development. It's not month-end heavy, and a high proportion of your time is to be spent on added value projects and commercial partnering rather than financial reporting. You will ideally be a Qualified Accountant (although consideration will be given to PQ and EBQ). You will be intellectually astute with strong commercial acumen and a robust personality capable of challenging head-on. Your career may be from an SME, corporate, or professional services background, and your profile will include:

1. Deliver and interpret accurate and timely weekly / Monthly P&L's.
2. Provide cost analysis for external parties that will satisfy internal audit.
3. Ensure that actual costs are recovered within reported contracts and that variances are identified and analysed for trends.
4. Provision of detailed KPI reports for the site, review of KPI data with operations to identify performance and process improvement opportunities.

• Challenge managers constructively to deliver business objectives.
• Support commercial partners in the development of business cases and ad-hoc analysis to further drive business performance and understanding of the wider market conditions.

Key Attributes:

• Highly creative - you'll enjoy working with data, visualisation, dashboards, etc.; we seek a visual storyteller with outstanding presentation, writing & reporting skills.
• A self-motivated team player with a proactive can-do attitude & ability to work at pace.
• Very organised and able to multi-task, analytical & results-focused.
• An excellent communicator.

This will be a varied and fast-paced job role which will require you to manage a busy workload and prioritise to ensure deadlines are met.

The hours of work are 37.5 hours a week, Monday to Friday.

25 days holiday a year.

Car allowance or car.

Car parking.

Pension scheme and death in service benefit.

Perk Box.