Full job descriptionHighly successful mid-sized business, known for having a great culture and excellent benefits, is seeking a Finance Manager to play a key role in its Commercial Finance team and future growth of the business.

Hybrid working, Bonus, + market leading benefits package.

Sitting within the Commercial Finance team and reporting to the Financial Director your role will combine month end ownership of cost P&L lines with a forward looking, stakeholder facing remit: explaining performance to non-finance stakeholders, driving cost initiatives, and leading the business cases and longer term projects that ensure the division’s spend delivers value for money.

Accountabilities:
*Act as the main finance point of contact for your business area, building strong working relationships with senior leaders and explaining P&L performance in clear, accessible terms for non-finance stakeholders, including C-Suite colleagues.
*Identify, shape and lead cost initiatives across the business area, challenging existing ways of working and taking a fresh perspective to find new, sustainable savings.
*Lead the development of complex business cases for investment, including ROI and payback analysis, and track approved cases through to completion.
*Manage longer term, often ambiguous projects from a finance perspective, resolving complex or non-standard issues and monitoring spend against approved budgets to ensure ongoing value for money.
*Own your designated P&L lines at month end, including preparation and review of accruals and prepayments.
*Own designated sections of the monthly Board pack, ensuring accuracy, clarity and timely delivery, and support the wider team’s budgeting and forecasting cycles.
*Act as a point of escalation for less experienced finance colleagues, lead improvements to finance processes, and flex into other areas of the Finance team as priorities require.
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This is the perfect opportunity for a qualified candidate with circa 3 years post qualified experience looking to be part of a great culture.
You will have a good working knowledge of Analysis, Financial Planning and investment appraisal or will be a Management Accountant looking to gain more exposure to commercial Finance.
A working understanding of comparable cost base would be desirable along with the aptitude to proactively explore and adopt AI tools and automation in your day-to-day work.

Demonstrated experience developing complex business cases, ROI/payback analysis or capital expenditure processes would be a positive.

Package includes, a large degree of Hybrid working, Bonus, generous pension scheme and very good core benefits.