About the Role
We're hiring for a Commercial Finance Manager to join our team at adm Indicia! As a Commercial Finance Manager, you will be a commercial partner to the client services teams led by the Business Director, challenging and driving the operational teams to optimise financial performance and improve efficiencies using financial and operational systems.
Responsibilities
•Managing and controlling the financial performance for a single or small group of key blue-chip clients
•Owning the internal and external forecasting and reporting processes for the client accounts
•Developing and coordinating relevant financial and risk analysis to drive good decision making
•Managing a small team remotely, ensuring they all feed into the team goals and tasks
•Owning monthly financial reporting for client accounts, including profitability, volumes, working capital, cash generation, KPIs, risks, opportunities, trends and variances
•Supporting the development of profit improvement plans and helping drive actions that improve account performance
•Partnering with operational teams on annual account planning, budgeting, forecasting and monthly reforecasting
•Supporting contract negotiations, renewals and amendments through financial analysis and collaboration with internal legal teams
•Producing financial reports for clients covering spend, working capital, KPIs, risks, opportunities and performance trends
•Attending client review meetings and presenting financial performance
•Acting as an escalation point for credit control queries and supporting issue resolution with clients
•Supporting the governance and effective use of operational systems, ensuring accurate reporting and reconciliation to accounting records
•Ensuring compliance with group processes, authority limits, foreign exchange procedures and VAT requirements
•Overseeing the EMEA budgeting and forecasting process, ensuring accuracy across the region
•Reviewing operational processes and identifying opportunities for improvement and automation
•Acting as a trusted business partner to Business Directors, Account Managers and wider account teams
•Working closely with operational teams to help interpret financial information and understand the financial impact of business decisions
•Managing and developing junior team members where applicable
•Contributing to the wider finance team in maintaining strong financial control across the business
Requirements
•At least 4+ years' financial, commercial or accounting experience
•Strong IT skills, including knowledge of Sage, advanced Excel and data manipulation
•Honest, accountable and self-driven, with the ability to work effectively under time pressure
•Strong communication skills and professional presence, with significant interaction across client and operational teams
•Energetic and partnership-oriented approach
•Customer-focused, with an innovative and challenging mindset
Nice to Have
•Fully qualified accountant preferred but would also consider QBE
•Experience of POS stock and its impact on financial statements (preferred)
Conditions
This is a remote-first role, but the successful candidate should be flexible to travel to the Bristol or London office for in-person meetings as and when required.
