Commercial Manager, Digital Innovation

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Job description

Connect to your Industry

We have a new opportunity within the Digital Innovation Team in Tax.

This is your opportunity to join Digital innovation, an exciting and entrepreneurial part of the firm - the home of our product and engineering teams, as well as our venture incubators. We bring together creative problem solvers, doers and makers from all walks of life, united by a drive to help make change happen - in our own business, and for our clients. Together, we see a better future. And then create it.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other , foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most .

Connect to your opportunity

In this role, we are seeking someone who can balance two sides; (i) working closely with the business and our innovation teams to assess and advice on the financial performance of new product-enabled offerings and (ii) constantly improving our own operations within the Digital Innovation team to achieve successful commercial outcomes for the firm.

This will involve the following activities:

• Strategic & commercial support for tech enabled offerings
  • Collaborate with an increasing number of teams investigating technology-driven delivery methods to help them grasp commercial models, calculate the costs of developing and maintaining tech solutions, secure funding, and achieve profitable results.
  • Work with business subject-matter-experts to develop financial models and business cases with clear assumptions and track business performance
  • Transform complex financial data into straightforward narratives and presentations, enabling senior leaders to make well-informed choices.
  • Understand financial and operational challenges of existing or new offerings, and provide practical advice and solutions that achieve desired business outcomes
  • Work with the firms practitioners to develop novel pricing strategies, navigating from hourly-based billing models towards tech-enabled fixed fee and subscription-based models
• Operational excellence within Digital Innovation
  • Collaborate with our capability leaders to assess operational challenges that impact commercial outcomes, and develop effective practices or methodologies to address these issues on an ongoing basis.
  • Define and develop processes and operating models and see them through to implementation and realisation of benefits
  • Run management reporting that helps us track and measure cost to deliver products and projects to ensure return on investment for the firm
  • Maintain accuracy of financial information (e.g. performance, pipeline) to inform decision-making
  • Partner with product-managers, venture leaders and ds to enhance commercial acumen within the group and coach them through challenges

The role will be wide ranging and require a candidate that is able to understand business issues quickly, identify solutions and quickly put into practice new learnings.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

Ideally, candidates will have most or all of the below experience, although we will also consider exceptional candidates who do not meet all of the below criteria

• Proven business experience (e.g. in management/strategy consultancy, advisory or internal financial management role)
• Working towards or have gained a recognised management accounting qualification (CIMA or equivalent)
• Strong commercial awareness and understanding of the key factors which influence business performance in technology or consulting businesses
• Strength in Excel essential - must be comfortable with building business cases and models (no VBA coding required)
• Stakeholder management experience and experience working with senior decision-makers. Must be able to develop strong relationships at all levels of staff with ability to influence where required
• Ability to present data in engaging formats to support decision-making i.e. creation of management dashboards / summary presentations
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to quickly digest information and provide critical insights.
• Organisation and management - able to work across multiple projects simultaneously and manage expectations and meet timelines in a fast-paced environment
• Energy and motivation; an enthusiastic and dedicated team player with ability to work autonomously and under pressure.
• Understanding of product/technology business models preferred but not mandatory

Connect to your business - Tax

Innovation and tax consultancy may not seem to go together, but that's exactly what you'll find at Deloitte. We're constantly seeking the new and working together to push the limits of what's possible. Discover a new kind of tax career that you can make your own.

Tax

Our comprehensive range of services encompasses everything from the completion of tax returns (corporation tax self-assessment) to complex consultancy assignments and strategic tax planning. We advise on corporate and general tax, international M&A, stamp tax, cross-border transfer pricing, reorganisations and reconstructions, and competent authority negotiations.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

"At Deloitte you acquire a lot of knowledge - fast. It's interesting work, often for household names." - Erica, Tax and Legal

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in London with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Connect to your return to work opportunity

Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?

For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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