Finance and Commercial Manager

We’re growing and looking for you to join us in our pivotal role as Finance & Commercial Manager, where you will be customer facing, providing financial and commercial insight and support, along with insight into new and existing business opportunities for our Rockingham shared user site within our eFulfillment sector. 
This opportunity offers great breadth of variation, ownership and pace, whilst maintaining strong financial controls and adds value to our growth agenda. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Business partner key operational stakeholders to deliver site budget and profitability targets, across multiple customers/contracts.
• Full financial control responsibly for both the P&L and balance sheet, ensuring adherence to policies and procedures. 
• Deliver accurate and timely financial reporting and interpretation of the operations on a weekly and periodic basis.
• Support contractual negotiations for renewals, taking the lead Commercial role for contract negotiations of smaller sized opportunities within contract guidelines and approval paper targets.
• Ownership of the successful financial onboarding of new contracts, ensuring good financial governance as well as delivery of targets to business case.
• Present and lead from a Finance & Commercial perspective in customer facing meetings and reviews. 
• Carrying out financial modelling and analysis to support decision making and new business propositions and develop models and reporting to drive performance through an enhanced understanding of the internal and external commercial and financial drivers. 
• Lead and manage delivery of the annual budgets and customer forecasts to strict timelines and standards, aligning with overall HVeF expectations as set out by Senior Finance and Commercial Lead
• Work alongside non-financial managers to develop strong commercial awareness and an understanding of the budget and key cost drivers. 
• Build, lead, develop and motivate the finance team to build capability and succession planning.
• Reporting and monitoring of key performance indicators and non-financials to support service delivery and contractual commitments.
• Ensure adherence to contractual commitments and deliverables. 
• Support with broader HVeF Finance and Commercial projects as outlined by Senior Finance and Commercial Lead. 
• Work in partnership with the HR team(s) to ensure robust payroll processes and reporting mechanisms are in place. Note: Hybrid (up to 3 days in the office, with travel). 

What will you bring to our team?

• Fully qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA)
• Proven experience within a fast pace financial leadership opportunity (Transport/Logistics Industry experience would be an advantage).
• Customer facing experience and ability to build relationships at all levels is preferable.
• Be proactive, inquisitive with a passion for challenging teams to drive performance.
• Be able to work under pressure whilst maintaining high standards. 
• Must be flexible and respond positively and accurately to internal and external customer requests. 
• Passionate and driven, with a proven ‘can do’ attitude that showcases drive, energy and a commitment to CI. 
• Able to travel within the UK as required.

What do we offer?

 

Our Culture & Benefits 

In addition to a  generous salary, company car/allowance , we really value our people and offer a friendly, safety-first working environment, along with other benefits including company car, company pension scheme, generous holidays, cycle to work scheme, employee benefits include, online discount platform, and much more.

Our people are at the core of our business and what makes  Wincanton great. That’s why we also provide significant opportunities for career development and progression, as well as training enrichment and multi-skilling, in a dynamic working environment.

 

Be a part of our values; Excellence, Integrity, Passion, Proactivity, Togetherness & Trust.

 

Our Commitment

We are committed to providing equality of opportunity for all employees. We want to create an environment where all colleagues feel safe, supported and valued, whilst feeling they can be their whole selves within our workplaces. We are proud that our colleagues represent us and our successes. Attracting diverse teams, we believe in creating an inclusive, respectful organisational culture for our colleagues and future talent.