Job Description

The finance team has grown rapidly over the past 5 years as we try to maintain and improve the level of control and support required for such a fast-growing business. This makes for an exciting working environment which brings challenge and reward in equal measure where you’ll have the opportunity to influence, make a difference but above all have fun.

• Building strong relationships with the director and senior management of the business unit to assist with conversion of high-level business plans to detailed operational and commercial solutions
• Ensuring plans are subject to sufficient challenge to ensure they are robust and efficient
• Producing periodic performance reports for each business unit with detailed commentary on variances and actions taken/to be taken
• Liaise with the commercial finance team to ensure changes in cost base are reflected in client pricing and maintain your element of the client profitability model
• Financially appraise investments and changes to operational procedures to track and review the results of investments to assess value for money
• Set targets for operational and financial improvement and monitor against these targets
• Identifying and tracking of risks/ opportunities vs plan
• Lead, direct and support the team
• Help develop the financial awareness of the operational and commercial management teams, and assist with the development of the current MI, KPI and flash reporting

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Experience of working, challenging and influencing at a senior level across various functions You’ll have some Finance Business Partner experience and will be no stranger to budgetary control, profit & loss accounts and financial reporting Be educated to degree standard and holding a full professional accounting qualification such as CIMA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent Naturally you’ll be very numerate and analytical, with commercial acumen to evaluate business plans as well as the charisma needed to influence often conflicting ideas Strong IT skills and knowledge of MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint, Word etc A UK driving licence as you’ll need to be able visit our depots/hubs on a regular basis