Commercial Finance Analyst

Commercial Finance Analyst – Brigg – £45,000 -£55,000
 
Chase & Holland are proud to be exclusively partnering one of North Lincolnshire's leading manufacturing companies, to recruit a Commercial Finance Analyst for a newly created role due to expansion. This business continues to grow rapidly and proves its capabilities by leading in its field. Reporting into the Finance Director, this is a critical role in the business and the successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the business by providing insights and strategic recommendations. This position will be responsible for building strong business partner relationships with the site leaders for the plant. You will be viewed as the financial partner to the UK leadership team and provide financial leadership, insights, forecasts, planning and analysis. This role requires someone who is willing to develop a strong understanding of commercial, supply chain, operations, related cost structure of the business, and translate that knowledge into actionable financial insights and recommendations.

This role will see you grow as an individual and develop the Commercial Finance function in the UK, in a supportive and proactive environment.  

Salary and Benefits include :
Exceptional 8% pension contributions
Private healthcare for yourself and immediate family
Bonus
27 Days Holiday & BH’s
Life assurance with 4 x DIS
9am-5pm (some flexible working available)
Our client is offering you a chance to join a very exciting business with excellent development opportunities to lead the commercial finance function in the UK down the lineResponsibilities will include:
Primary Commercial Finance business partner providing FP&A leadership to the site. Provide timely insights, analysis, and scenario modelling to support key site decisions.
Develop, monitor, and evaluate financial and nonfinancial KPIs to provide timely insights to site leadership and finance leaders.
Lead monthly reviews with key operations leaderships to provide financial trends, insights, and data driven suggestions.
Perform financial variance analysis to understand variances to prior year and budgeted results.
Provide clear and concise presentations to leadership to incorporate this analysis into financial commentaries, insights, and recommendations.
Continuously review financial and operational trends and recommend capital projects, cost-saving opportunities, and operational efficiencies.
Review all capital projects related to the sites you support and collaborate with the key business leaders to determine feasibility and facilitate financial approval.
Lead the annual budgeting and periodic forecasting for the sites for both costs and capital spending. Collaborate with commercial on sales forecasting.
Utilise data and business intelligence to expand the use of technology, automate plant reporting / KPIs, and create insightful dashboards.
Own and manage significant ad-hoc analyses and special projects.The ideal candidate will be:
Strong strategic and critical thinking skills, communication skills, problem solving skills.
Sound experience in a similar FP&A, Finance Business Partner or commercial finance role.
Organises and manages multiple priorities simultaneously, collaborates, works effectively with leaders.
Part or fully qualified CIMA/ ACCA is desirable but not essential
IT Literate including ERP systems, Power BI and Excel
Have a strong customer focus (internal and external)
Take accountability for achieving results and delivering on commitments
Embrace change and have a continuous improvement mindset
Ability to work as part of team and communicate effectively with others
If you are interested in finding out about this exciting Commercial Finance Analyst opportunity, please click ‘apply now’.

Chase & Holland acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. We specialise in finance, supply chain, HR, IT and office support recruitment and comfortably service Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire and Lincolnshire