Job Title: Commercial Finance Manager
Location: Fulwood, Preston
Contract Type: Permanent, 37.5 hours a week
About the Role
The Commercial Finance Manager will be responsible for providing financial insight, business partnering and commercial analysis that drive revenue growth and margin improvement. This is a brand new role for CHEC and there is an opportunity to make a real impact. The role owns customer-level economics, pricing support, and commercial decision analysis, acting as a key partner to Commercial, Contracts and Data.
Responsibilities
* Work with FP&A to link commercial insights into forecasts and budgets.
* Partner with Commercial under the leadership of the line manager, to contract negotiation, pricing decisions and commercial negotiations.
* Produce regular commercial insight on revenue, margin, churn, and patient behaviour.
* Work with the Commercial and Contracts Teams to understand the performance, forecasts and areas of improvement.
* Responsible for building relationships and managing external stakeholders in tandem with the Contracts and Commercial teams.
* Drive continuous improvement in forecasting, revenue recognition processes and commercial data quality.
* Lead customer profitability, contract economics, and pricing/margin analysis.
* Provide monthly revenue analysis and variance explanations against budget and forecast.
* Support management reporting (e.g., revenue by specialism, customer, contract).
* Assist with budgeting and forecasting for revenue streams.
* Collaborate on KPI dashboards (e.g., debtor days, billing lag, cash conversion).
* Build relationships externally with Customers (ICBs, Trusts and other organisations) to manage the commercials.
* Responsible for understanding NHS Contracting and interpreting them to ensure accuracy of financial management.
What you’ll bring to the role
* ACA/CIMA/ACCA Qualified
* Experience in commercial finance and revenue management
* Proven experience supporting commercial and contract teams
* Strong commercial acumen
* Ability to influence senior stakeholders
* Excellent business partnering ability
* Understanding of pricing, revenue recognition and commercial contracts
* Attention to detail
* Comfortable working in a fast paced, change oriented environment
* Advanced Excel
Why work for us
* 25 days holidays plus bank holidays
* Buy and sell annual leave scheme
* Refer a friend scheme
* Company pension
* Company sick pay scheme
* Life assurance scheme
* Bluelight Card – 100's of discount and cashback options
* Performance review with a training and development plan
* Employee discounts portal
* Gym membership
* Cycle to work scheme
* Tech scheme
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