Senior Commercial Finance Analyst

SENIOR COMMERCIAL FINANCE ANALYST / MANCHESTER / HYBRID/ £60,000-£70,000 PLUS BENEFITS

WEX is an innovative payments and technology company looking to forge the way in a rapidly changing environment, with a goal to simplify the business of doing business for our customers, freeing them to spend more time, with less worry, on the things they love.

We are on a journey to build consistent world class user experience across our products and services and leverage customer driven innovative across all of our strategic initiatives.

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Commercial Finance Analyst to join our expanding team in our Manchester City Centre office.

This integral Commercial Finance Analyst role will be key to collaborating with internal stakeholders and teams across the business (inside and outside of the UK) to ensure the business achieves its goals.

What’s on offer?

• Highly competitive salary between £60,000-£70,000 (dependent on experience)
• Annual company bonus
• 40 hour week - Monday to Friday
• Hybrid working (1-2 days per week in our Manchester offices)
• Industry leading pension scheme
• Private Medical, Life Assurance & Income Protection
• 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays - with the opportunity to purchase additional holidays
• Gym Flex membership
• Discounts & perks platform
• Employee wellbeing

Key Responsibilities of the Senior Commercial Finance Analyst:

• Reporting to the Head of FP&A for International Payments, you will act as a commercial business partner to the International Payments team, to enable and support all financial planning and decision making across the team to help achieve their financial targets.
• You will ensure revenue and profitability is accurately forecast and reported.
• Accountable for coordination and translation of growth initiatives
• Recommending cost reduction strategies and impact this may have
• Providing informative commercial analysis and insight to leadership teams supporting the business and Corporate KPI’s that drive revenue and profitability.
• Provide business casing and investment appraisal support e.g. Capital Planning Process (CPP) i.e. Account profitability
• Pricing and Deal modelling, including impact on Balance and ensuring deals are negotiated above or at shareholder return thresholds.
• Work closely with the leadership teams to formulate the financial business plans
• Work directly with management to develop sales commission plans for International payments

Experience/Key Competencies:

• A newly qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or global equivalent) with PQE working in day-to-day financial planning and analysis in a global company environment.
• Solid commercial acumen including supporting pricing and developing business cases for investments.
• Strong experience of identifying and understanding customer segmentations to drive decision making and profitability.
• Experience of developing and maintaining financial planning and reporting models in Planning Analytics or other similar finance BI tool e.g. Anaplan, UI Path, Alteryx
• Evidence of strong business partnering with the ability to influence decision makers
• A self-starter with strong ambition to grow and develop, demonstrated by seeking out opportunities for advancement and assisting others as needed
• Ability to prioritise competing demands across a wide spectrum of activity
• Proactive hands on approach and keen to make a difference
• Flexibility - displays a creative and flexible approach to meet the changing circumstances of a growing business

What’s next?

If you feel that you have the necessary skills to be our new Senior Commercial Finance Analyst then please APPLY TODAY for immediate consideration.