Head of Commercial Finance

Head of Commercial Finance

London (hybrid)

Circa 120,000 + bonus & benefits

PE backed Technology SME

This Private Equity backed Technology disruptor has proved to be immensely popular across the investor community, experiencing yet another successful year of growth through both organic and acquisitive expansion.

With further exciting expansion plans in place, including additional acquisitions this exciting and fast paced business is developing at an exhilarating rate.

Building on its significant success, this well-funded and highly entrepreneurial business is now seeking to recruit a dynamic Head of Commercial Finance into this newly created position.

Reporting to the CFO and leading a small team, the role includes:

• Partner Exec level stakeholders including the CCO, CEO and CTO.
• A key financial advisor on business growth, playing a critical role in driving performance against strategic and tactical initiatives.
• Executing financial management and insight enabling sound decision making and steering business success, through commercial support & financial analysis of performance.
• Business case and decision support for key initiatives and sales opportunities, ensuring alignment with overall strategic objectives.
• Providing insight, analysis and recommendations in relation to growth assessment and improvement, financial sustainability and investment cases.
• Advising on pricing strategy and structure, expansion into sectors/markets, ongoing investment business cases, customer profitability.
• Ownership of KPIs, assuring the data quality and pertinence of metrics used, and using a combination of financial and non-financial data to provide quality insight that can be acted upon.
• Provide critically assessed guidance and inputs into the long-range business plan and consider key sensitivities required. Key member of the core financial team driving the long-range plan, owning and validating key inputs.
• Lead on the annual budgeting and forecasting processes
• Develop and maintain robust long term financial models for internal and external consumption
• Analysis and reporting for Investors
• Coaching and developing the small FP&A team, ensuring clarity of purpose, development plans are in place and a collaborative and supportive team environment is sustained

The successful candidate will be a highly credible finance professional with an impressive background of driving the commercial finance agenda and developing and leading a commercially oriented FP&A environment.

With impressive levels of gravitas, drive and intellectual horsepower, you must have demonstrably successful experience in influencing senior commercial stakeholders, having confidently engaged in and led business-critical discussions.

You must have sector experience from either Technology or a related sector and ideally, though not essential, will have had exposure to corporate finance and working within a PE backed business.

Personality and behaviours are a key element for the successful candidate. Business acumen, first class communication skills, an innately curious mindset and a confidence in your own ability are pre-requisite to succeed within this this exciting, ambitious business.