Senior Manager, Commercial Finance Partner

This senior manager role will play a critical part in providing strategic finance partnership, commercial insight and challenge across the full P&L to the Southern Europe (SE) business.

The jobholder will report directly to the SE Cluster CFO and work closely with country managers and sales leads, operating within a matrix organization.

Key activities include:

• Partner with Account Executives, Business Development teams and Country Managers to provide strong financial insights of past client and market performance and produce accurate forecasts for future performance.
• Partner with business teams to commercially challenge investment asks and ensure well-defined business cases and success measures.
• Ensure local SE insights are shared with the Financial Planning & Analysis and other Finance teams throughout the year.

The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is €59,150 - €97,175 which may include potential sales incentive payments.

Commercial Finance Partnering

• Review monthly the driver trends impacting the market and individual client performance and share insights back to AEs and Country Managers.
• Provide insights on market performance, e.g. yield analysis, market share.
• Based on latest driver trends, ensure that client incentive accruals and projections are updated to reflect latest performance.
• Commercially challenge investment asks to ensure optimal use of resources.

Finance Planning & Analysis

• Ensure that the AEs and Country Managers are regularly updated on financial performance.
• Contribute to all planning activities for SE, Revenue drivers analysis and forecasting.
• Provide insight into key variances and business trends and identify risk and opportunities.

Internal Control & Support

• With the leadership of Europe Controllership team, safeguard the accuracy in financial accounting and reporting.
• Assert financial controls to mitigate corporate risk and drive financial stewardship.

Essential Criteria

• Commercial focus, with a record of analyzing business performance and identifying trends and issues.
• Business Partnering experience with progressively increasing responsibilities.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong Excel and data skills.
• Proven self-starter, pro-active and hands-on in their approach to all activities.

Qualifications

• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business or a related discipline.
• Recognized professional accountancy qualification (such as ACA, ACCA or CIMA).
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience in commercial finance, FP&A or finance business partnering.