Axon Moore are delighted to be partnering with a highly successful PE backed business in Preston to recruit an ambitious Commercial Finance Manager.This is a fantastic role which will involve acting as a strategic partner to the business, providing meaningful insights, driving financial performance and challenge to inform decision making and achieve financial objectives. Ensuring that cost efficiency and a cost-conscious culture is a key focus for the business unit’s leadership team.Responsibilities include:

Partner with business leadership team to instil a performance management culture including driving the performance debate in Review meetings and ensuring that risks, issues and opportunities are identified early, and interventions/action plans are agreed.
Partner with business leaders to develop financial plans and budgets.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive business performance.

Prepare and present financial reports to senior management.
Deliver and interpret accurate and timely weekly / Monthly P&L's
Ensuring that actual costs are recovered within reported contracts and that variances are identified, analysed for trends etc.
Cost analysis and assisting with monthly cost reports, and Weekly Cost & Value Reporting (CVR).
WIP reporting
Provision of detailed KPI reports for the site, review of KPI data with operations to identify performance and process improvement opportunities.
Challenge managers constructively to deliver business objectives.

Hands on management of a current team of 4: delivering mentorship, allocation of workload and reviewing.

Candidate requirements:

ACA/ACCA/CIMA member, with post qualified experience.

Strong financial and business acumen and analytical skills.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels with proven track record of challenging and influencing key stakeholders.
Experience of leading teams
Able to move at pace, to proactively identify and drive creative solutions and remove barriers where necessary.

This is a coveted position that will spring board the successful candidates career giving them excellent exposure to the senior finance team and highly sought after commercial experience. Ideally candidates will have strong knowledge of excel, data analysis, and dashboard creation.Our local Lancashire Axon Moore team recruit all accounting and finance roles from CFO to transactional finance on both a temporary and permanent basis. For more information about this role or our wider team, please contact Kat Goulding on or on .

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