Business Insights Manager

This newly created role combines business partnering, BI analysis and FP&A. It is an exciting and varied opportunity for someone to make a real positive difference to an already successful business.

Client Details

My client are an private equity backed organisation, operating in a fast-growth environment delivering double digit revenue growth. Turnover is in excess of £100mil with further projected growth over the coming years.

Description

Business partnering with the Sales, Operations and Supply chain teams to deliver results, this role will:

• Develop business intelligence tools to sharpen reporting and analysis and the pace at which it is delivered
• Identify opportunities to automate reporting and analysis to generate true insight
• Analyse financial trends, understanding revenue and margin performance (at a transaction level) to provide clear recommendations, propose actions and drive decision making
• Analyse customer and supplier rates and impact on profitability
• Highlight underperforming activities and risks to delivery of business plans and support the teams to put a performance plan in place driving actions to mitigate them
• Suggest different ways of planning and processes to create efficiency and free time for value-add
• Support revenue and gross profit target setting for the budget and three-year plan, to cascade to the sales team through the internal systems
• Line manage, coach and develop a Commercial Analyst

Profile

This role requires an instinctively commercially minded and analytical individual who, in their pursuit of delivering outstanding results for the business and customers, is self-motivated, resilient, dedicated, a good communicator and practical and takes pride in delivering work to a very high standard, right first time. The role requires technical excellence combined with a pro-active approach and a willingness to forge new relationships, solve problems and participate in our future growth as part of the Senior management team.

This role requires a self-starter with the following experience and skills:

• Strong business awareness and commercial acumen
• Highly numerate and analytical and capable of working accurately at speed
• Excellent interpersonal skills - confident, energetic and driven to exceed expectations
• Tenacious with a drive to deliver results
• Good soft skills and the ability to provide rounded opinions and influence business stakeholders
• Able to communicate financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders
• Ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders across the business
• Can initiate improvement projects working across the business to deliver change
• Has outstanding organisational and time management skills work under pressure and manage priorities
• Analyse large volumes of data to reach solid key conclusions adding value through insightful detailed analysis and create actions that will deliver change

Essential

• Qualified Accountant (ACA / CIMA / ACCA)
• Experience using BI tools (e.g. Power BI, Tableau) and in financial forecasting / modelling
• Demonstrable track record of generating ideas and adding value in a commercial role
• Personable character with excellent communication skills and capable of building relationships and influencing people at all levels
• Exposure to Board/ Senior management teams
• Experience of fast-paced, high volume environment
• Dedication to 'getting the numbers right', with attention to detail and a thorough mindset
• Experience of building and influencing the commercial plan, merely reporting results won't be enough
• Excellent excel and financial modelling skills and experience of all Microsoft Office packages

Job Offer

On offer to the successful candidate is the change to learn and progress under a fantastic leadership team, with the ability to add real value to a growing organisation with a great culture.

What's more, there is a clear progression trajectory for the successful individual.

You'll be remuneration with a competitive salary and benefits package.