Head of Commercial Finance

To £90,000 (dependent on experience) + 15% bonus + benefits

Technology Sector

Basingstoke hybrid (min 1 day/week)

This dynamic communications infrastructure and cloud services business has experienced consistent top and bottom line financial growth, demonstrates a culture of support and employee care, and enjoys a market reputation for innovation and quality of service.

Due to ongoing growth, the business is now seeking to hire a talented Head of Commercial Finance for its largest division.

Reporting to the divisional Finance Director, the role includes:

Partnering the Commercial Director and associated commercial team, providing insightful support and challenge to drive high quality business performance
Leading an established commercial finance team of 4, coaching and developing from an already good standard of performance
Providing direct customer engagement, including face-to-face customer negotiations, ongoing account support and dispute resolution
Developing and delivering insights on product and customer performance
Enhancing and challenging performance KPIs against targets and forecasts
Ensuring that financial support for major multi-year deals is in place, challenging investment decisions, creating pricing structures, partnering on new business bids, and opportunities to improve margin and/or reduce cost base are maximised
Own the long term plan, budget and forecast for product areas

Required candidate experience profile for this high profile position:

In-depth commercial finance experience, having partnered senior commercial stakeholders
Business partnering examples where you delivered tangible success that has had a positive impact on revenue and profit
Medium to large scale business that operates in the B2B space
Gravitas, credibility, immediately obvious leadership qualities and a personality that inspires
Experience of coaching a team to improved performance, specifically within a commercial finance setting
Ideally, will have worked within the Technology and/or Media sector, and have exposure of an environment that operates via large, high value customer contracts