The role
will include
1. Develop pricing strategy, tactics, and decisions
2. Partner with Head of Sales to structure new business proposals
3. Support to ensure product costings drive commercial behaviours
4. Long-term planning for margin optimisation
5. Contract modelling, sensitivity analysis, and scenario planning to facilitate contract negotiations and review
6. Management of product mix
7. Provide monthly forecast updates
8. Provide weekly and monthly actual sales reports, by business unit and customer.
9. Perform product and customer portfolio profit analysis
10. Manage and monitor the Short Interval Control Bonus scheme.
11. Provide commercial data at Gate Reviews, reporting progress and ensuring due diligence of any assumptions made.
12. Responsibility for optimisation of operating working capital, including inventory.
13. Driving standardisation of finance processes in collaboration with the wider finance team
14. Ensuring Sales and Marketing costs are well controlled, including preparation of monthly Commercial and Marketing cost reporting.
15. Flexible support across Finance Function Globally
What you\'ll need to succeed
16. Experience working in a commercial environment
17. Ability to apply sound commercial judgement and demonstrate confidence in making recommendations to the business
18. Effective communicator across geographies and levels of a business
19. A qualified accountant who has previous experience in cost accounting would be an advantage
20. A good understanding of fundamental accounting principles
21. Works in a collaborative way with both business and finance colleagues
22. Experience in managing and developing a team
What you\'ll get in return