Commercial Finance Manager

At Bionic, we're making life radically easier for small business owners. We’re building a one-stop shop for business essentials that’s powered by smart technology and world class human service giving them an experience so good that they trust Bionic to sort all their business needs for them.

The role

In this key role for the business, you will act as a business partner by preparing, reviewing and analysing financial and non-financial information to provide reporting and insight that drives performance improvement and delivery against desired business outcomes.

The day to day

• Reporting to the Head of Commercial Finance, a Finance business partner to the CFO and the Technology & Product teams and the Sales & Operations teams, driving improvements in productivity, experience and profitability.
• Drive performance through the budgeting and forecasting of costs, key metrics and drivers, and translation into related financial costs and KPIs.
• Work with these teams to set their respective financial and KPI targets, reporting and sharing actual performance, providing insight into variances and highlighting future implications.
• Work closely with your partner teams to provide support on key projects and strategic pillars initiatives with a view to enhancing productivity and margins.
• Attendance at cost centre review meetings, reviewing cost base (FTE and costs) and metrics on a monthly basis and discuss any variances to determine the impact on the future P&L, and support on follow up actions.
• Attendance at relevant business team meetings, sharing insight into performance and being the wider finance representative.
• Act as financial advisor to these teams, and to be integral to commercial decision-making and driving improved performance.
• Provide financial support and analysis in relation to commercial contract negotiations and partnerships with key vendors.
• Work with the Data & Insight and Financial Reporting teams to automate reporting & develop KPIs, providing analysis and insight, linking financial reports to business strategy.

About you

• Degree, professionally qualified, working towards a relevant professional qualification or qualified by experience.
• Competent ability in building financial models, forecasting and reporting based on historical financial data.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with an ability to work as a member of a team and influence multiple stakeholders.
• Demonstrable experience interpreting and challenging financial data.
• Strong analysis and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail, utilised across group reporting.
• Good knowledge of specific processes and business areas and the ability to apply this to implementing changes that add value to the business.
• Highly motivated with strong initiative and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to think creatively, where there is not an obvious or right answer and be comfortable with ambiguity.
• Strong desire and ability to collaborate within own and other functions as a Business Partner to achieve desired outcomes.
• Good industry knowledge and commercial awareness.

The interview process

• Initial conversation with our Talent Acquisition Team.
• 1st stage Teams interview with Group FC Technical Assessment.
• 2nd stage in person interview with Group FC & CFO.

About Bionic Group

Bionic has over 700 people working across three office locations and four businesses; Bionic - London, Bionic Outbound – Luton, Think Business Loans – Chelmsford, and Smart – Field based agents. We have a high energy work environment wherever the location; you can feel the passion the moment you walk through our door! Our work environments are packed with amazing people and energy, hubs of collaboration, creativity and fun! We’re one team, we get stuck in, we roll our sleeves up and we care about helping each other out wherever we can. We set the highest standards and show up every day to be the best version of ourselves. Working at Bionic means provides you many opportunities to advance your career, with incredible progression, recognition, and reward.

Benefits

• We know that our employees are what sets us aside from our competitors, our benefits are just part of the way we say thanks.
• Enhance your health & wellbeing: Private healthcare cover, Employee Assistance Programme, including a virtual GP service, priority physio & talking therapies, Eyecare scheme.
• Taking time away from work: 25 days annual leave plus the 8 UK bank holidays, increasing with tenure, 1 paid family/religious day of leave per year - following successful probation period, 1 paid charity volunteering day per year, Option to buy/sell up to an additional 3 days leave per year.
• Family matters: for the special moments: Enhanced maternity, paternity or shared parental leave, 2 days off for your wedding upon joining, and up to 5 days after 2 years' service.
• Flexible working options & a hybrid work approach.
• Financial wellbeing: Auto-enrolled salary sacrifice pension scheme, Life assurance, Season ticket Loans, salary advances & loans to buy/rent a home – based on tenure, Cycle to work scheme.
• Recognition: Highflyers incentive, a VIP experience for our high performers across Bionic group to celebrate success, Company summer & Christmas party celebrations, business and local zonely & annual awards and recognition, Long service awards.