Commercial Finance Manager London, England
Job description
At a glance
Flexible working - We know flexible working is important to you, and it is important to us too. The Partnership has adopted a blended working approach meaning you'll be able to work a mixture between the office and home based upon your personal needs whilst balancing the needs of the business. The team aims for around 2 days a week in the office to connect and on a more ad-hoc basis to attend key meetings but again, are flexible on this. The role could also be based at either our Bracknell or Victoria campus based on your preference..
Salary range - The salary range for this role is set at £57,000 - £83,700
Contract type - We have Permanent and Fixed Term contract roles of up to 12 months available
About the role
As a Commercial Finance Manager you will play a pivotal role within the JLP Commercial Finance team, you’ll have the responsibility for driving the business to deliver the key financial outcomes set out in the Partnership Plan. You will provide influential insight in order to assist business leaders in making well-informed commercial decisions, you’ll challenge the business to make improvements, such as challenging expenditure to maximise profit, improve financial performance and deliver on the Partnership goals.
The role also focuses on driving business decisions and subsequent actions in order to improve overall financial performance. You will be responsible for mitigating risks, maximising opportunities and investing in new capability / propositions. This is a highly proactive position which will see you be jointly responsible alongside Business leaders to develop plans to meet the financial targets and ensure business leaders understand the financial implications of the plan. You will also be working with our excellent team of Senior Finance Analysts & Finance Analysts, supporting their development and ensuring delivery of outcomes.
Day to day, what will you be doing?
You will be accountable for the financial performance for your assigned business area - driving financial performance in service of the Partnership Plan through utilising performance insight, commercial analysis and your own financial expertise and commercial acumen
You will ensure recommendations provided to improve financial performance are acted upon by senior business stakeholders, driving incremental financial value
You’ll be an expert in the business area your outcome relates to, the financial context in which it operates and the wider market and competitor context. You’ll be responsible for the delivery of high quality verbal and written outputs to communicate insight, recommendations and influence decisions with stakeholders at all levels of seniority, providing appropriate ‘storytelling’, influence and challenge to drive effective decision making.
Essential skills you’ll need
Proactive and collaborative approach, strategic thinking, along with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to be able to liaise with and influence stakeholders to achieve desired business outcomes
Highly organised, structured and analytical. Ability to analyse complex data sets to derive meaningful insights for decision making
Finance or Accounting qualification with post qualified experience
Benefits of the Partnership and the role
You will enjoy 25% discount at John Lewis and 20% in Waitrose
The Partnership has a competitive pension scheme where your contributions will be matched by the Partnership (up to 8% of pay)
Excellent work life balance, including focus on well being and flexible working and our marketing leading equal parenthood leave Policy
Health Care cover
Find out more about the extensive range of exciting benefits that you could enjoy when you join us on our website under About the Partnership; Benefits.
Next Steps
The application form consists of a CV upload followed by application questions. Please ensure you refresh the page each time you complete a task to ensure you complete everything that you need to in time. (If internal, check your Workday notifications and see further guidance on the PDW under "Internal application process").
Once you've submitted an application the next steps of the process, if successful, are likely to include a 1 stage virtual interview
For internal partners only - Please view the job outline here.
For external candidates - Please find a copy of the job outline attached to this advert.
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