Commercial Finance Manager

Commercial Finance Manager

Telford

£60,000 - £70,000

 

Seymour John is partnering with an international manufacturing group who seek to recruit a commercially focussed Finance Manager to be based out of their sales office based in Telford. In this role that reports into the Director of Finance (Europe) you will be responsible for detailed financial analysis and action plan follow up for the Northern Europe region, specifically focused on improving local gross margin, tracking revenues, costs and associated activity.

 

Main aspects of the role will be detailed review of customer pricing and price increase tracking, special price tracking, and analysis to ensure HQ customer pricing is being followed locally. Using this analysis to help with the monthly re-forecast process and giving guidance to local finance and management on relevant data to help build the forecast and annually the budget.

 

In this wide-reaching role, you will be responsible for partnering with a variety of non-finance stakeholders to include the Northern Europe Regional Leader, business unit leaders in each country, the head office finance team based in the UK and the local finance teams in each local country.

 

The overall role objective is to improve financial performance particularly gross margin of each of the reporting units in Northern Europe.

 

JOB DETAILS.

 

• Ongoing daily tracking of customer orders and sales to track price across the region including realisation of price increases and review of all terms (e.g. cash discounts etc.)
• Work with HQ pricing team to understand all customers in the region with special price agreements, understand when the agreement will expire and ensure local teams are following the agreed prices and new orders are meeting the price and dates as agreed
• Develop relevant gross margin KPI for country performance and track each month
• Work with local shared finance teams in N. Europe to help analyse month-end actual results for the regional leader; prepare summary variance analysis to forecast and work with regional leader to follow up any finance issues, particularly on gross margin
• Identify areas for financial performance improvement; work with BU leader, local finance team, operations and sales teams to action improvements and monitor progress
• Work closely with local operations team to identify cost improvement projects in current inflationary climate. Drive implementation of identified projects
• Working with the local customer service teams to provide an analysis of inventory, inventory in transit and backlog data to enable prioritisation of order fulfilment.

 

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

 

The role will involve travel to the relevant countries – Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark when required. The expectation that this will be quarterly. 

 

EXPERIENCE

 

To be considered experience in a financial position ideally working in FP&A role with focus on profit improvement from pricing management is highly desirable, as well as exposure to working in an international “highly measured business” with multiple business units and P&L’s.

It is essential that you are used to working in a fast-paced corporate environment, working closely with non-finance stakeholders to drive profitability through analysis.

 

For further information on this opportunity please contact Phil Topper at Seymour John Ltd.