Rotheram Carrington Recruitment Group have the pleasure in supporting a market leading company based in the Cheshire/Crewe area, in the recruitment of a Commercial Finance Analyst. This role would report to the Commercial Manager.

The purpose of this role is as follows:

Maintain and prepare commercial information, analysis and reconciliation to support the strategic decision-making process. These tasks include but are not limited to producing periodic forecasts for revenue/profit/stock, supporting monthly and weekly reconciliations, as well as maintaining business performance trackers, KPI’s and preparing monthly open book P&L statements.

Support the Commercial Manager in providing timely and accurate information to the senior leadership team to support decision-making.  You will need to be able to deputise for the Commercial Manager with key business stakeholders.

The key responsibilities would include:

• Prepare daily & weekly performance reports for Management and additional teams
• Perform such in-period reconciliations between key Sales & Materials systems as may be required to support the Finance team in improving process effectiveness, efficiency and reliability.
• Prepare accurate and timely reports
• Support the Commercial Manager in ensuring that financial issues arising are escalated efficiently and effectively
• Work with the transactional teams to ensure ledger accounts are accurate and up to date
• Support the Group Management in communicating and achieving margin and working capital targets
• Support Commercial Manager in the preparation of timely and accurate month end reporting – including but not limited to – paid claims reconciliations, supplier rebate calculations, as well as other month end activities
• Provide variance analysis on the month end results to support understanding of actual performance and forecast in the Management Accounts
• Work with stakeholders to identify and report on business trends and value opportunities, assisting in the delivery and measurement of the value delivered
• Provide operational input to support day to day tasks within the Finance department and ensure tasks are completed to a high standard
• Support in the delivery of robust financial control procedures, maintaining appropriate process and policy documentation
• Working with the wider Finance team – to recommend, participate in and as appropriate, lead Finance process, systems or tooling transformation activity
• Where necessary, assist with annual audit, preparation of statutory accounts and tax planning / compliance activities
• To carry out any other reasonable duties defined by the Company to ensure business objectives / requirements are met

Skills/Experience

• Part-qualified CIMA or ACCA or relevant Degree / HND educated with minimum 2 years’ experience or QBE with minimum of 4 years’ experience in a similar environment
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Excellent numeracy and analytical skills – working with high volumes of data
• Experience of designing & implementing sustainable Xcel, SaaS or database models would be an advantage
• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Results focused
• Happy working as a sole-contributor and able to work effectively in a cross functional team
• Ability to work under pressure, to react fast to changes & meet tight deadlines
• Superb communication (both verbal and written) and interpersonal skills
• Clear thinking, with sound understanding of calculating profitability on deals and able to make recommendations from data

Salary/Benefits

• up to £45,000 per annum (possibly higher dependent on experience)
• Onsite working – full time hours
• Parking
• Excellent employee benefits
• Easily commutable from Crewe, Northwich and Nantwich areas

If you are a Commercial Finance Analyst, who wants to be part of great company and supportive team, then this is the role for you and please apply.