Commercial Finance Manager
- Recruiter
- Pro Finance Recruitment Group
- Location
- London, England
- Salary
- £50,000
- Posted
- 21 Mar 2017
- Closes
- 29 Mar 2017
- Job role
- Finance manager, Financial planning & analysis
- Sector
- Accounting - Public practice
- Experience level
- Manager
My client are a successful Property Management business in the City of London, with 150,000+ homes and a turnover of circa £400m. They are looking to recruit a Commercial Business Partner to help drive, improve and influence the financial and operational performance against targets. This role sits within the group function meaning strong relationship building skills are essential as you will have regular communication with the transactional and commercial teams, plus have a hands on relationship with the Group Financial Controller. Key Duties: Takes responsibility of both financial and non-financial weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reportingEstablish a rolling forecast to help track to targets and provide basis for forward thinking/planning and support decision making/ strategic implementationOwnership of Divisional P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow through monthly reporting and messaging to Group FC and Divisional MD and drive/improve reporting capabilitiesAnalysis and overview of regional P&Ls and presenting monthly highlights to Operational stakeholders including highlighting opportunities and threatsUnderstanding reasons for variances to forecast, providing data and analysis to ensure senior stakeholders are aware and agree corrective actionsManaging the budget and forecast process and partnering with relevant stakeholders to take ownership and identify targets in-line with growth plans of the wider businessBusiness Partnering with relevant stakeholders to design and implement KPIs, Balance Scorecard reporting and ensuring Operational teams understand financial implications of their activitiesOverseeing annual statutory audit for division and preparation of statutory accountsDrives financial initiatives, including on-going monitoring for delivery and monthly reporting of findingsAppetite for systems migration and heavy involvement with scoping and implementing new Finance SystemIn-direct management of Corporate transactional team to ensure sufficient input of data in order to drive accurate output/reporting The Candidate: The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant (ACCA or CIMA). You will be a strong Finance Business Partner from a commercial business background with the ability to identify improvements and implement change. You must be able to analyse data and translate it into future finance predictions that are understandable for non-financial stakeholders. Successful candidates will be highly ambitious with commercial awareness and a transformation mind-set. The Pro-Recruitment Group consists of 4 distinct brands: Pro-Tax, Pro-Legal, Pro-Finance and Pro-Education: www.pro-education.org.uk