Commercial Finance Manager

ZipRecruiter; Kettering; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in property risk expertise is seeking a Commercial Finance Manager to enhance business performance through strategic financial insights. The role involves reporting, business partnering, and planning, requiring a qualified accountant with strong commercial acumen and financial modelling skills. This position allows for home working with occasional travel to the Kettering office.

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant with experience in FP&A and/or Commercial Finance.
• Significant experience in creating and presenting robust plans, budgets, and forecasts.
• Ability to portray business performance visually.

Responsibilities

• Design revenue performance reporting and KPIs.
• Business partner with Sales and Marketing Directors.
• Deliver scenario planning outputs for business strategies.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Financial modelling

Scenario planning

Presentation skills

Education

Qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA)

Job description

Job Description

e.surv 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:

1. Reporting
2. 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.
3. Manage the Commercial Finance analysts to design, create, and comment upon all relevant revenue reporting and KPIs.
4. Deliver against 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 – turning the conversation from ‘what’ and ‘why’ to ‘so what’ and ‘next steps.’

Ensure all commercial tenders are supported with dynamic modelling of prices, revenue, cost, and overall margin/profitability output, and commercial support is given to price and product positioning.

Strategic Optimisation

Maintain external market perspective, modelling market, customer, and competitor trends and their impact on business revenue projections and trends.

Deliver scenario planning outputs of potential business strategies and market assumptions to support strategic planning.

Provide revenue and profit modelling of potential business strategies, including organic and acquisitive growth, market entry, and exit strategies.

Prepare robust revenue stream modelling and scenarios for investment appraisal and business cases of new strategies.

Support the identification and delivery of new business initiatives, ensuring alignment with business case and identifying amendments to execution plans, opportunity financials, or return on investment.

Planning Cycle

From revenue, client, and customer perspectives, deliver a robust, defensible revenue plan aligned with business strategy, with a clear narrative.

Own the creation of the one-year view budget and ongoing business revenue forecasts, consolidating revenue opportunities considering business performance, market conditions, market share, and new initiatives.

Ensure the consolidated model is accurate, timely, robust, and dynamic.

Present the plan, budget, and forecasts visually compellingly, with clear transitions, narrative, and commentary.

Ensure all plans are clearly articulated with metrics and assumptions related to customer, market, competitor, pipeline, and pricing.

Essential Qualifications and Experience:

• Qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA) with experience in FP&A and/or Commercial Finance.
• Exemplary commercial acumen with a strategic mindset and the ability to influence business performance.
• Significant experience in creating and presenting robust plans, budgets, and forecasts.
• Ability to portray business performance visually and with a compelling narrative.
• Experience in financial modelling and scenario planning.

Trading since 1989, we're the UK's largest provider of property risk expertise and residential surveying services. We complete more than one property inspection every 12 seconds and employ over 600 surveyors nationwide, offering comprehensive coverage and local knowledge.

PRE-EMPLOYMENT SCREENING - All employees must pass a Criminal Records Disclosure and Credit Referencing Process to work with our lender clients. Please ask the team if you need further information about this process.