Finance Manager - Commercial

We're recruiting for a Finance Manager to partner with our Commercial teams. As a Finance Manager, you'll leverage your expertise to drive financial strategies, streamline processes, and ensure sustainable growth. Our Finance Manager will be pivotal in supporting the business to achieve its exciting growth plans, building on what is already a strong proposition and continuing to be an industry leader in the plumbing, heating, and renewable energy market.

Come and join us as a Finance Manager for our Commercial function, and be part of a hugely successful and friendly team.

Responsibilities:

1. To be the primary point of finance business support to the Commercial Leadership team. This includes provision of financial information to understand daily and weekly trading (and insight into trends), preparation and explanation of monthly board packs, financial appraisal, tracking and review of strategic initiatives and commercial evaluation of business propositions.
2. Help shape and communicate the strategic direction of the businesses local installer customer sector, across the full spectrum of non-gas product categories and the full breadth of customer profiles (from major developer to homeowner). Deliver financial input into investments and cost/benefit analyses to determine key drivers of future value.
3. Lead the core commercial finance team, ensuring that individuals have clear objectives and deliverables and that performance management and development of the individuals are a key priority.
4. Oversee core finance processes, such as budgeting, forecasts, month-end board packs, and balance sheet reviews.
5. Drive leading practice in operating within a robust controls framework ensuring high levels of compliance and mitigation of risk.
6. Inspire a culture of continuous improvement across the team delivering efficiency through automation and digitalisation within processes.

This is a hybrid-based opportunity with true flexibility to work from home, but you should be within commutable distance of our newly refurbished offices in Crick, Northamptonshire.

Qualifications:

1. Relevant Qualification - CIMA / ACCA / ACA.
2. Previous experience in partnering with stakeholders is essential, as well as line management experience.
3. Advanced knowledge in Excel or Google Sheets.
4. A drive and passion to change the way something has always been done.
5. Solid understanding of commercial finance and margin drivers.

It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: Finance Business Partner, Finance Manager, Senior Finance Business Partner, Finance BP, ACCA, CIMA, ACA, Renewables, Sustainability, Construction, Building Products.

We're proud of our reputation for selling quality plumbing and heating products to both trade and retail customers and we're super excited about our future. We put our colleagues at the heart of all we do, giving them all the tools they need to be successful, happy, and feel rewarded in their career with us.

Benefits:

1. Bonus.
2. Discounts, savings, and cash back at numerous retailers.
3. Life assurance.
4. Extended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave, and more.
5. Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme, we look out for each other.
6. Complete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages development.
7. Financial education and loans.
8. Flexible working options.
9. A business striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self.
10. And more!

We're passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don't want you to 'fit' our culture, we want you to enrich it.

We are committed to best practices in recruitment and undertake Basic Criminal Record Disclosures for candidates that are offered employment within our branches that undertake deliveries for British Gas. This check will only be undertaken after the acceptance of an offer of employment.