Commercial Finance Analyst | Central Manchester (Hybrid) | £50,000 - £60,000 + 10% bonus | PE backed professional servicesAxon Moore have partnered with a PE backed FMCG in North Manchester who are seeking a Commercial Finance Analyst to join their team on a full time permanent basis, This role is responsible for delivering annual budgeting and medium / long term financial planning & forecasting across the Group. Reporting into the Commercial Finance Director, you will be responsible for:
* Own and develop the budget model with robust controls and checks
* Develop strong working relationships with the Executive and Commercial teams and become a trusted advisor
* Build and maintain rolling forecast model that can be refreshed monthly for key activity changes
* Be the key day to day contact and provider of information to Group Finance.
* Maintain the integrity of budgets and forecasts to ensure all areas of the business are adhering to plans (costs and revenue)
* Ensure all month end and reporting deadlines are met without compromise.
* Understand and analyse Group KPIs to input towards monthly reporting
* Work closely with the Managing Director to ensure clear tracking of business projects
* Work with the Group team to align backwards and forwards looking financial reporting
* Ad hoc support on finance wide projects such as M&A activity
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