Commercial Finance Manager

Job Description

Commercial Finance Manager
Office-based in Manchester
55K - 65K p/a

An exciting opportunity to join a small subsidiary of a national utilities group as a Commercial Finance Manager to ensure the overall delivery of financial performance targets, financial reporting, managing suppliers, improving processes and maintaining a healthy cashflow.

Working with the Group Finance Director, you'll be responsible for the development and implementation of structures to ensure costs are appropriately recharged within the group of businesses.

The ideal candidate has a strong commercial background, and would fit in well in a small, utilities environment. In return, you'll be joining a forward-thinking, growing subsidiary in a well-established company with a mapped route to progression.

Responsibilities:

Work with the finance team to develop processes and templates that report expenditure and financial performance from accounting systems in an accurate, consistent and timely manner
Consolidate and analyse monthly financial results in a consistent, accurate and timely manner, adding value through analysis and commentary
Implement and drive financial review meetings with shared service functional management to share and where necessary, robustly challenge financial performance, understand business drivers, and add value and support to business decision making
Develop key relationships with functional management to ensure finance is viewed as an essential and valued part of the decision-making process
Responsible for preparing budgets, quarterly forecasts, stat accounts and annual external audits

Only candidates who are ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified will be considered.