Commercial Finance Manager

Quarter4 Limited; High Wycombe; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in High Wycombe is seeking a Commercial Finance Manager. This newly created role involves key commercial decision-making to enhance profitability, alongside responsibilities in financial analysis, budgeting, and strategic planning. The position offers excellent career progression and hybrid working options.

Qualifications

• 2+ years post qualified experience in technology or large companies.
• Advanced Excel skills, including financial modelling.

Responsibilities

• Produce analysis on performance across various variables.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning.
• Provide financial insights for decision-making.

Skills

Financial Analysis

Commercial Decision Making

Trend Analysis

Budgeting

Forecasting

Excel

Education

Qualified ACCA / CIMA / ACA

Job description

A fantastic opportunity has arisen as a Commercial Finance Manager to join a Technology company based in High Wycombe. This opportunity offers excellent progression and hybrid working options.

This is a newly created role that requires someone to take ownership of making key commercial decisions regarding investments to enhance profitability for the group.

Responsibilities:

• Producing new analysis on our performance across a range of variables
• Proposing and implementing improvements you identify to existing analysis, helping to make them robust and repeatable
• Working closely with Senior Management (including the CFO) and their direct reports on a day-to-day basis, using financial information to inform them on business performance or decisions
• Supporting with budgeting, forecasting and long-term strategic planning across the company
• Demonstrating aptitude for understanding numbers and making commercial recommendations from that information
• Robust commercial, trend and business analysis across customer, categories & products
• Ensure complex information and data is turned into clear and digestible information
• Support decision making across the commercial teams with insightful and accurate recommendations
• Work closely with Finance team to ensure accurate allocation of deductions, understanding drivers of distribution,
• Building partnerships and maintaining strong relationships with all senior managers and their team
• Challenging key stakeholders and making commercial decisions on Pricing, Capex, Cost, Tenders, and Trading Terms by evaluating the impact, validating assumptions and scenario planning.
• Identifying, overseeing and leading continuous improvement projects.
• Own and drive improvement in forecasting and budget modelling. creating and implementing new models where appropriate.
• Co-ordinate and support the delivery of the regular reforecasts and annual budget exercise
• Analyse financial data including trend analysis and performance reporting to provide financial insights and make recommendations to support strategic decision-making.

Requirements:

• Qualified ACCA / CIMA / ACA
• 2+ years post qualified experience preferably within Technology large companies within other industries
• Advanced excel skills, including financial modelling

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