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Rotheram Carrington Recruitment Group have the pleasure in supporting a market leading company based in the Cheshire/Crewe area, in their recruitment of a Commercial Finance Analyst. This role would report to the Commercial Manager and offers great long term career opportunities.
The purpose of this role is as follows:
Maintain and prepare commercial information, analysis and reconciliation to support the strategic decision-making process. These tasks include but are not limited to producing periodic forecasts for revenue/profit/stock, supporting monthly and weekly reconciliations, as well as maintaining business performance trackers, KPI’s and preparing monthly open book P&L statements.
Support the Commercial Manager in providing timely and accurate information to the senior leadership team to support decision-making. You will need to be able to deputise for the Commercial Manager with key business stakeholders.
The key responsibilities would include:
- Prepare daily & weekly performance reports for Management and additional teams
- Perform such in-period reconciliations between key Sales & Materials systems as may be required to support the Finance team in improving process effectiveness, efficiency and reliability.
- Prepare accurate and timely reports
- Support the Commercial Manager in ensuring that financial issues arising are escalated efficiently and effectively
- Work with the transactional teams to ensure ledger accounts are accurate and up to date
- Support the Group Management in communicating and achieving margin and working capital targets
- Support Commercial Manager in the preparation of timely and accurate month end reporting - including but not limited to - paid claims reconciliations, supplier rebate calculations, as well as other month end activities
- Provide variance analysis on the month end results to support understanding of actual performance and forecast in the Management Accounts
- Work with stakeholders to identify and report on business trends and value opportunities, assisting in the delivery and measurement of the value delivered
- Provide operational input to support day to day tasks within the Finance department and ensure tasks are completed to a high standard
- Support in the delivery of robust financial control procedures, maintaining appropriate process and policy documentation
- Working with the wider Finance team - to recommend, participate in and as appropriate, lead Finance process, systems or tooling transformation activity
- Where necessary, assist with annual audit, preparation of statutory accounts and tax planning / compliance activities
- To carry out any other reasonable duties defined by the Company to ensure business objectives / requirements are met
Skills/Experience
- Part-qualified CIMA or ACCA or relevant Degree / HND educated with minimum 2 years’ experience or QBE with minimum of 4 years’ experience in a similar environment
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
- Excellent numeracy and analytical skills - working with high volumes of data
- Experience of designing & implementing sustainable Xcel, SaaS or database models would be an advantage
- Strong analytical skills
- Excellent attention to detail
- Results focused
- Happy working as a sole-contributor and able to work effectively in a cross functional team
- Ability to work under pressure, to react fast to changes & meet tight deadlines
- Superb communication (both verbal and written) and interpersonal skills
- Clear thinking, with sound understanding of calculating profitability on deals and able to make recommendations from data
Salary/Benefits
- up to £45,000 per annum (possibly higher dependent on experience)
- Onsite working - full time hours
- Parking
- Excellent employee benefits
- Easily commutable from Crewe, Northwich and Nantwich areas
If you are a Commercial Finance Analyst, who wants to be part of great company and supportive team, then this is the role for you and please apply.
