Senior Commercial Finance Analyst

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Investigo are delighted to be partnering with a highly acquisitive Private Equity backed IT business who are looking to recruit a Senior Commercial Finance Analyst, on a permanent basis.

The newly created role of Senior Commercial Finance Analyst will report to the Group Finance Director and will focus on all things related to commercial finance, acting as the key conduit between group finance and the service delivery, operations and sales teams.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Business partnering with key senior stakeholders up to the Board level, to inform them on business performance, and future opportunities.
• Make commercial recommendations in areas such as customer contract T&Cs, and supplier agreements, to maximise margin potential.
• Identify and implement key areas of process improvement and standardisation to drive efficiencies and improve the bottom line as the group scales.
• Generate forecasts and budgets to lay the roadmap for future success of the group.
• Producing finance analysis in areas such as product and service line P&Ls, business unit P&Ls, customer and project P&Ls, and overall business cases for new service offerings.
• Proactive approach to provision of data driven insight to senior management to assist with decision making and optimising the growth of the business.
• Other ad-hoc financial tasks to support group finance.

The role will sit within a newly created group finance function and will have a dotted line into the Chief Delivery Officer and Operations Function.

The successful Candidate will be a Professionally Qualified individual who is commercially savvy and able to identify, challenge and recommend decision making processes in the above-mentioned areas to senior leadership to ensure financial goals are met. They will be an exceptional communicator who is comfortable liaising at all levels within a business up to and including the C-Suite.
Candidates will possess excellent, demonstrable analytical skillset and the ability to present financial information to non-finance teams. Previous experience of working within a business that is fast paced and has scaled over a 3-5 year period would be advantageous.

Our Client is offering a Salary of £60,000 - £70,000 + Car Allowance + Benefits.