Commercial Finance Manager
Job Profile:
Commercial Finance Manager
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 Kettering will be required on an ad hoc basis
Accountabilities include:
Reporting- Design daily, monthly, weekly, and quarterly revenue performance reporting and full set KPIs with associated insights, and lead the discussion on implications, next steps, and remediation for our consumer business
- Manage the Commercial Finance analysts to design, create and comment upon all relevant revenue reporting and KPIS.
- Deliver against all revenue and commercial finance Group business reporting needs such as QBR, Monthly FDs call and business performance reviews with CEO/CFO.
- 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 on 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.
- Maintain external market perspective, modelling market, customer and competitor trends and their impact on business revenue projections and trends.
- Deliver scenario planning outputs of the potential business strategies and market assumptions to support the creation of the strategic plan.
- Provide revenue and profit modelling of potential business strategies, organic and acquisitive, market entry and exit.
- Prepare robust and effective revenue stream modelling and scenarios for inclusion in Investment appraisal and Business cases of new business strategies.
- Support the identification and delivery of new business initiatives, ensuring alignment with business case, and identifying amendments to execution plan, opportunity financials, or return on investment.
- From revenue, client and customer perspective deliver a robust, defensible revenue Plan, with alignment to the business strategy and a clearly defined, articulated, and presented narrative.
- Own the creation of the one-year view Budget, and ongoing business revenue forecasts – consolidating revenue opportunities in light of business. performance, market conditions, market share and new business initiatives. Ensure consolidated model is accurate, timely, robust, and dynamic.
- Present the Plan, Budget, and forecasts in visually compelling way, with clear year on year transitions, narrative, and commentary.
- Ensure all Plans are clearly articulated in terms of customer, market, competitor, pipeline and pricing metrics and assumptions.
Essential:
- 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 understand business and market drivers, and experience of influencing business direction to optimise performance.
- Demonstrable significant experience in the creation and presentation of robust and defensible Plans, Budgets and Forecasts
- Portray business performance and business plans/strategies in a visually innovative and engaging way with a compelling narrative
- Experience of financial modelling and scenario planning
This gives us the flexibility to offer nationwide coverage combined with invaluable local knowledge.
We're part of the LSL Property Services PLC Group, which includes household names Your Move and Reeds Rains, as well as the mortgage network PRIMIS. We work with lenders, intermediaries, social housing entities and estate agents in addition to private customers.
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If you feel you match our requirements and are looking for your next career challenge, or for a confidential discussion on the full details of this role please contact Loren Worrall on 07800705566 or recruitment@esurv.co.uk – alternatively apply with your CV and covering letter for a quick response.
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