About this role
We are looking for a commercially astute and data-driven Commercial Finance Manager to join our UK and Ireland finance team. This isn’t just a "number crunching" role; you’ll be the key partner to our operational leaders.
The ideal candidate will be someone who can get to the root of how our operation runs to ensure every decision is backed by sound commercial logic. You’ll need to be comfortable challenging senior business leaders, and adept at turning results into the strategic insights necessary to turn operational complexity into a competitive advantage.
This role offers broad exposure across multiple business units and entities, where there is significant scope to help shape the future of how we help serve Dinnertime to our millions of customers worldwide!
Key Responsibilities:
• Stakeholder Partnership; Build strong relationships with the Ops Directors & senior managers across our fulfillment and logistics teams, understanding their function and becoming a trusted advisor.
• Insight Generation; Interpret complex data sources to produce meaningful business insights. You won't just report the ‘what’; you will explain the ‘why’ and the ‘what next?’
• Business Casing; Evaluate new cost saving initiatives, commercial partnerships and revenue opportunities with a targeted focus on driving ROI at all times.
• Forecasting/Budgeting ; Work closely with both local and international stakeholders to generate reliable, data driven forecasts whilst proactively challenging assumptions and driving continuous improvement at every turn.
• Month End & Board Reporting; Lead the Month End accounting process for operations, ensuring a high level of accuracy in our management reporting and helping stakeholders understand their performance through data.
• Mentoring; Support in the coaching and development of our senior financial analyst, providing direction and leadership to them in their career development.
• Continuous Improvement; Being an advocate for challenging the status quo, relishing the challenge of optimising workflows and creative in your approach to maximising time spent on value-add topics.
What we’re looking for:
• A qualified accountant with 2-3 years of PQ experience
• Experience working within physical product-based businesses (e.g. manufacturing, operational environments, FMCG, or similar industries) would be advantageous
• Someone highly commercial with strong financial literacy and proven experience in a fast paced environment managing simultaneous deadlines.
• Experience of designing, developing or maintaining structured scenario planning models and effectively using them to deliver tangible business outcomes
• A continuous improvement mindset where you strive under the challenge of trying to continually improve the financial or operational performance & efficiency.
• An aptitude for managing large/complex datasets – a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office/Google workspace tools is required, whilst SQL exp