Finance Manager

** Please only apply for this role if you reside in the UK,  have the relevant right to work and are happy being fully office based in Cheshire **

MERJE are delighted to be partnered with a fast growing and dynamic organisation based in Cheshire (5 days office)

Our Client are looking for a talented Finanace Manager to manage the end to end financial elements of their implementation process. This is a key part in delivering excellent customer experience, ensuring best in class performance, value for money and customer communications.

 Your responsibilities day to day will be…

 Full end to end management of the financial elements of the Implementation process.

 Driving a process improvement initiative to ensure our installation partners are providing sufficient job data to allow the business to reconcile & approve costs ahead of releasing payments.

 Business partnering with the Telematics Operations team to review contacts, credit notes, complaints & cancellations relating to a customer’s implementation journey to identify further areas of improvement to the customer experience.

 Acting as the Finance lead for the requirements gathering, solution design and testing for an enhanced installer portal.

 Assessment of best value for money installations approach and business partnering with the Telematics Implementation team to manage implementation costs.

 Financial control governance of our internal installers and associated van stocks.

 Creating ongoing performance metrics to monitor implementation partner performance and charging.

 Ability to manage and structure large volumes of data from multiple sources and in multiple formats to allow the business to manage our installation jobs effectively.

 Drive best practices in terms of data required from our implementation partners with the goal to align our data inputs from our partners.

 Ownership of MI production for supplier and engineer performance and costings.

 Working with the Financial Operations to continuously assess our installation partner performance across multiple territories to determine whether our charging grace periods are suitable.

 Business partnering with Commercial team regarding profitability of installations, cashflows and pricing.

 Working in conjunction with the Head of Implementation (Operations) to develop supplier and engineer SLAs.

 Filtering down performance metrics to our European Dispatch and Installation managers and meeting with them in person to regularly review performance and ongoing improvement initiatives.

Our Ideal Candidate:

 Qualified CIMA, ACCA or ACA accountant or equivalent (preferred).

 Minimum 3 years’ experience of working in a Finance related role.

 Ability to influence and effect change with a strong group of stakeholders.

 Able to travel to meet with our internal Dispatch and Installation managers and external Implementation partners across Europe.

 Strong technical accounting skills (preferred).

 Advanced Excel skills – including experience of creating and using Pivot Tables and V-Look Up.

 Strong written and verbal communication skills.

 Customer centric approach.

 Experience of interacting across all levels of the organisation including dealing with non-finance colleagues and external stakeholders to gather relevant information.

 Experience of fostering strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

 Excellent attention to detail.

 Show an impressive attitude and not only take full responsibility for their duties but are enthusiastic to take on new challenges which will develop their own career.

 Track record of delivering process improvements and harbouring a continuous improvement methodology.

 Autonomous self-starter.

 Proactive action-based bias and problem solving.

 Resilience in fast paced demanding environment.

 Strong ‘can do’ attitude.

Applicants must be located and eligible to work in the UK without sponsorship.

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