Seymour John
Commercial Finance Manager
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Commercial Finance Manager
Telford
£60,000 - £70,000
Seymour John is partnering with an international manufacturing group who seek to recruit a commercially focused 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
- 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
- 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.
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The overall role objective
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 realization 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 analyze 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 the 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 prioritization of order fulfillment.
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TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS
The role will involve travel to the relevant countries – Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, and Denmark when required. The expectation is that this will be quarterly.
EXPERIENCE
To be considered, experience in a financial position ideally working in an FP&A role with a 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.
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