Commercial Finance Manager/Business Partner/ FP&A - Publishing

Recruiter
Talentedge
Location
Central London, London
Salary
£65,000 per annum
Posted
17 Mar 2019
Closes
20 Mar 2019
Ref
1101607784
Experience level
Manager
Commercial Finance Manager/Business Partner/FP&A - Entertainment

Up to £75,000 + bonus and benefits

London

This international Entertainment house has a reputation for quality and technical innovation in relation to their products and services. They are also highly acquisitive and have consequently created a new role for a truly Commercial Finance Manager to look after revenue across a number of key divisions.

This is an FP&A-focused Commercial role sitting in the FP&A team - Reporting to Divisional Head of Finance and working closely with non-finance business partners, your role will be split between leading a small team responsible for the reporting and analysis on all incoming revenues and taking the finance lead on new business appraisals.

Main responsibilities will include:
- Assist in developing business plans for new business ideas with consideration of various scenarios and risk assessment
- Assist in identifying opportunities to improve business performance
- Provide financial support and modelling on relevant projects
- Be able to assess opportunities to enter into equity agreements and manage due diligence process where required, including assessing start up business and their financials and potential future benefit
- Manage the forecasting and annual budgeting process.
- Prepare the 5-year plan with knowledge of corporate strategy and industry trends.
- Provide higher level accounting input as required for production of monthly and quarterly financial reports including KPI's, statistics and trend analysis.
- Develop and implement further reporting and systems improvements
- Oversee monthly management reporting on all incoming revenue
- Manage the annual budgets and quarterly forecasts for the commercial group
- Work closely with the sales and commercial teams providing financial analysis/advice to improve margins and profitability
- Manage a small finance team
- Ad hoc financial support and analysis to the commercial team

Ideal candidate:
Qualified Accountants with a proven track record in Business Partnering, Commercial Finance - including some direct exposure to decision making.

The ability to take a commercial approach whilst still maintaining strong financial control coupled with the capability to quickly establish credibility with senior stakeholders is also paramount.

This is a pivotal role as which acts a bridge between finance and the business and offers excellent exposure across the group as well as a vertical career path for the successful candidate.

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