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Business Insights Manager

Leeds
Permanent
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  • Newly created Commercial Finance role with scope to drive business decisions

  • PE-backed business with ambitious growth plans and clear progression trajectory

About Our Client

My client are an private equity backed organisation, operating in a fast-growth environment delivering double digit revenue growth. Turnover is in excess of £100mil with further projected growth over the coming years.

Job Description

Business partnering with the Sales, Operations and Supply chain teams to deliver results, this role will:

  • Develop business intelligence tools to sharpen reporting and analysis and the pace at which it is delivered
  • Identify opportunities to automate reporting and analysis to generate true insight
  • Analyse financial trends, understanding revenue and margin performance (at a transaction level) to provide clear recommendations, propose actions and drive decision making
  • Analyse customer and supplier rates and impact on profitability
  • Highlight underperforming activities and risks to delivery of business plans and support the teams to put a performance plan in place driving actions to mitigate them
  • Suggest different ways of planning and processes to create efficiency and free time for value-add
  • Support revenue and gross profit target setting for the budget and three-year plan, to cascade to the sales team through the internal systems
  • Line manage, coach and develop a Commercial Analyst

The Successful Applicant

This role requires an instinctively commercially minded and analytical individual who, in their pursuit of delivering outstanding results for the business and customers, is self-motivated, resilient, dedicated, a good communicator and practical and takes pride in delivering work to a very high standard, right first time. The role requires technical excellence combined with a pro-active approach and a willingness to forge new relationships, solve problems and participate in our future growth as part of the Senior management team.

This role requires a self-starter with the following experience and skills:

  • Strong business awareness and commercial acumen
  • Highly numerate and analytical and capable of working accurately at speed
  • Excellent interpersonal skills - confident, energetic and driven to exceed expectations
  • Tenacious with a drive to deliver results
  • Good soft skills and the ability to provide rounded opinions and influence business stakeholders
  • Able to communicate financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders
  • Ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders across the business
  • Can initiate improvement projects working across the business to deliver change
  • Has outstanding organisational and time management skills work under pressure and manage priorities
  • Analyse large volumes of data to reach solid key conclusions adding value through insightful detailed analysis and create actions that will deliver change

Essential

  • Qualified Accountant (ACA / CIMA / ACCA)
  • Experience using BI tools (e.g. Power BI, Tableau) and in financial forecasting / modelling
  • Demonstrable track record of generating ideas and adding value in a commercial role
  • Personable character with excellent communication skills and capable of building relationships and influencing people at all levels
  • Exposure to Board/ Senior management teams
  • Experience of fast-paced, high volume environment
  • Dedication to 'getting the numbers right', with attention to detail and a thorough mindset
  • Experience of building and influencing the commercial plan, merely reporting results won't be enough
  • Excellent excel and financial modelling skills and experience of all Microsoft Office packages

What's on Offer

On offer to the successful candidate is the change to learn and progress under a fantastic leadership team, with the ability to add real value to a growing organisation with a great culture.

What's more, there is a clear progression trajectory for the successful individual.

You'll be remuneration with a competitive salary and benefits package.

Contact:
Olivia Crook
Quote job ref: JN-112020-1557236
+44 113 243 7705
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Job summary

Job function:Accounting
Subsector:Commercial & Analysis
Industry:Business Services
Location:Leeds
Contract type:Permanent
Consultant name:Olivia Crook
Consultant phone:+44 113 243 7705
Job reference:JN-112020-1557236

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