Commercial Finance Manager

e.surv Chartered Surveyors are currently recruiting for a Commercial Finance Manager to Business Partner with our Business Development Director and Consumer Director. You will use your expertise in market analysis and trends relating to revenue, customers, clients, and overall profitability of our Consumer business.

If you excel in building relationships with key stakeholders, enjoy collaboration, and take pride in delivering high-quality work, then we want to hear from you.

This is a home working role, where regular travel to the Head Office in Kettering will be required on an ad hoc basis.

Accountabilities include:

1. Reporting
2. Design daily, monthly, weekly, and quarterly revenue performance reporting and full set KPIs with associated insights, and lead the discussion on implications, next steps, and remediation for our consumer business.
3. Manage the Commercial Finance analysts to design, create, and comment upon all relevant revenue reporting and KPIs.
4. Deliver against all revenue and commercial finance Group business reporting needs such as QBR, Monthly FDs call, and business performance reviews with CEO/CFO.

Business Partnering

1. Finance Business partner to the Sales (Business Development Director – B2B/Lender and B2C/Consumer Director) and Head of Marketing to support issue and trend identification, and lead the dialogue that drives business performance optimization – turning the conversation from ‘what’ and ‘why’ to ‘so what’ and ‘next steps.’
2. Ensure all commercial tenders are supported with dynamic modelling of prices, revenue, cost, and overall margin/profitability output, and provide commercial support for price and product positioning.

Strategic Optimisation – for Lender & Consumer business segments

1. Maintain external market perspective, modelling market, customer, and competitor trends and their impact on business revenue projections and trends.
2. Deliver scenario planning outputs of potential business strategies and market assumptions to support the creation of the strategic plan.
3. Provide revenue and profit modelling of potential business strategies, organic and acquisitive, market entry, and exit.
4. Prepare robust revenue stream modelling and scenarios for inclusion in investment appraisals and business cases of new strategies.
5. Support the identification and delivery of new business initiatives, ensuring alignment with business case, and identifying amendments to execution plans, opportunity financials, or return on investment.

Planning Cycle – for Lender & Consumer business segments

1. Deliver a robust, defensible revenue plan from revenue, client, and customer perspectives, aligned with the business strategy, with a clear narrative.
2. Own the creation of the one-year view budget and ongoing business revenue forecasts, consolidating revenue opportunities considering business performance, market conditions, market share, and new initiatives.
3. Present the plan, budget, and forecasts in a visually compelling way, with clear year-on-year transitions, narrative, and commentary.
4. Ensure all plans are clearly articulated in terms of customer, market, competitor, pipeline, and pricing metrics and assumptions.

Essential:

1. Qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA) with experience in FP&A and/or Commercial Finance.
2. Exemplary commercial acumen, with a strategic mindset and the ability to understand business and market drivers, and experience influencing business performance.
3. Significant experience in creating and presenting robust and defensible plans, budgets, and forecasts.
4. Ability to portray business performance and strategies in a visually innovative and engaging way with a compelling narrative.
5. Experience in financial modelling and scenario planning.

Trading since 1989, we\’re the UK\’s largest provider of property risk expertise and residential surveying services. We complete more than one property inspection every 12 seconds and employ over 600 surveyors nationwide, offering extensive coverage with local knowledge.

PRE EMPLOYMENT SCREENING – All of our employees have to pass a Criminal Records Disclosure and Credit Referencing Process to work with our lender clients. If you are unsure about this, ask the team, and we\’ll be happy to explain the process.

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