Job Description

This is an excellent opportunity for a ambitious and forward thinking candidate to join an international, well known and respected service based business where they will gain exposure to and learn from a very hands on and knowledgeable Head of Finance.

This is a newly created position that has arisen due to year on year growth and is an opportunity to join a company that pride themselves on their high levels of staff retention and offer a clear support and development programme for the successful candidate.

The main duties of the role will involve:-
-Sales performance analysis and commentary
-Continually improving methods and processes across reporting, analysis and commercial team support
-Providing variance analysis on weekly performance to key stakeholders
-Creating new sales and forecasting models to support in maximising profitability
-Business partnering closely with the sales team, closely monitoring when sales deals are submitted and the affect they have financially on the business, confidently raising any issues to the Head of Commercial Finance
-Supporting on bids and tenders
-Support with the budgeting and forecasting process
-Monitoring the sales order book and providing detailed cost analysis
-Competitor analysis for the Senior Management Team
-Producing weekly MI and presenting to the SMT to ensure company performance and sales are where they should be
-Calculating the sales teams commissions

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

-Be commercially minded and will enjoy providing insight and challenging systems and processes to improve revenues and profitability -Have extremely good communication skills, will be confident presenting themselves to senior management and will be able to challenge ideas when needed -Ideally be a part qualified candidate or will have experience of working in a sales financial environment and will be comfortable supporting on project work -Be able to develop and build relationships with customers both internal and external -Be able to work within a fast paced, deadline orientated environment -Have excellent attention to detail and will pick up new skills quickly -Have strong Word and Excel skills and will be comfortable with Pivots and V-lookups