Commercial Finance Manager

e.surv Chartered Surveyors; Kettering; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in property risk expertise is seeking a Commercial Finance Manager to partner with business directors. This home working role involves significant expertise in financial reporting and market analysis, focusing on the profitability of the Consumer business. The ideal candidate is a qualified accountant with a strong commercial mindset and experience in financial modelling.

Qualifications

• Experience in FP&A and/or Commercial Finance required.
• Excellent skills in creating and presenting robust financial Plans, Budgets, and Forecasts.

Responsibilities

• Design revenue performance reporting and KPIs.
• Finance Business partner to Sales and Head of Marketing.
• Deliver revenue and profit modelling for strategic planning.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Strategic mindset

Financial modelling

Scenario planning

Education

Qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA)

Job description

Chartered Surveyors are currently recruiting for a Commercial Finance Manager to Business Partner with our Business Development Director and Consumer Director. You will use your expertise in market analysis and trends relating to revenue, customers, clients, and overall profitability of our Consumer business.

If you excel in building relationships with key stakeholders, enjoy collaboration, and take pride in delivering high quality, then we want to hear from you.

This is a home working role, where regular travel to the Head Office in Kettering will be required on an ad hoc basis.

Accountabilities include:

Reporting

• Design daily, monthly, weekly, and quarterly revenue performance reporting and full set KPIs with associated insights, and lead discussions on implications, next steps, and remediation for our consumer business.
• Manage the Commercial Finance analysts to design, create, and comment upon all relevant revenue reporting and KPIs.
• Deliver all revenue and commercial finance group business reporting needs such as QBR, Monthly FDs call, and business performance reviews with CEO/CFO.

Business Partnering

• Finance Business partner to the Sales (Business Development Director – B2B/Lender and B2C/Consumer Director) and Head of Marketing to support issue and trend identification, and lead the dialogue that drives business performance optimization.
• Ensure all commercial tenders are supported with dynamic modelling of prices, revenue, cost, and overall margin/profitability output, providing commercial support for price and product positioning.

Strategic Optimisation – for Lender & Consumer business segments

• Maintain external market perspective, modelling market, customer, and competitor trends and their impact on revenue projections.
• Deliver scenario planning outputs of potential business strategies and market assumptions to support strategic planning.
• Provide revenue and profit modelling of potential strategies, including organic and acquisitive growth, market entry, and exit.
• Prepare revenue stream modelling and scenarios for investment appraisals and business cases of new strategies.
• Support the identification and delivery of new business initiatives, ensuring alignment with business case and adjusting plans as needed.
• Deliver a robust, defensible revenue plan aligned with business strategy, with a clear narrative.
• Own the creation of the one-year Budget and ongoing revenue forecasts, consolidating revenue opportunities considering business performance and market conditions.
• Present the Plan, Budget, and forecasts visually, with clear transitions and commentary.
• Ensure all Plans are articulated with customer, market, competitor, pipeline, and pricing metrics and assumptions.

Qualifications include: Qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA) with FP&A and/or Commercial Finance experience. You should possess exemplary commercial acumen, strategic mindset, and experience in creating and presenting robust Plans, Budgets, and Forecasts. Experience in financial modelling and scenario planning is essential.

Trading since 1989, we're the UK's largest provider of property risk expertise and residential surveying services, completing more than one property inspection every 12 seconds, employing over 600 surveyors nationwide. We are part of a group that includes household names and the mortgage network, working with lenders, intermediaries, social housing entities, estate agents, and private customers.

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If you meet our requirements and are looking for your next career challenge, or wish to discuss this role confidentially, please contact Loren Worrall at 07800705566 or apply with your CV and cover letter for a quick response.

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