What you’ll be doing

This is much more than a reporting role. You’ll take end-to-end financial ownership for your area and become a trusted finance partner to the people responsible for running it.

You’ll be:

• Taking ownership of the month-end process, including journals, accruals, prepayments, income recognition and balance sheet reconciliations
• Producing monthly performance reporting, variance analysis and meaningful commentary that explains what’s happening, why and what needs to happen next
• Leading budgeting and forecasting, working with budget holders to challenge assumptions and identify risks and opportunities
• Maintaining rolling forecasts and helping senior stakeholders understand the likely financial position between formal forecasting cycles
• Building and maintaining robust financial models to support commercial and operational decision-making
• Producing product and contract profitability analysis, understanding what is driving margin movements and identifying opportunities to improve performance
• Providing product costing and commercial analysis to support pricing, business cases and contract opportunities
• Working closely with operational and product leaders, providing constructive challenge and helping them make commercially informed decisions
• Ensuring sales and billing information is accurate and working with Accounts Receivable and Credit Control to resolve issues and manage aged debt
• Translating complex financial information into clear, practical insight for non-finance colleagues
• Building strong relationships across the business so Finance is involved in key decisions from the outset