Head of Commercial Finance |
Runcorn or Dublin area | Hybrid Working
The Company
The UK & Ireland arm of a leading multi-national healthcare business is seeking a high-impact finance leader to head up the Commercial Finance function for its Ireland business (c£30m turnover). With an emphasis on performance insight, business partnering and forward planning, this is a key finance role at the heart of a fascinating and complex business.
The Role
Reporting to the UK & Ireland Finance Director, the Head of Commercial Finance (Ireland) plays a pivotal role in business partnering the Ireland business, adding value through production of consistent and quality monthly reporting, short and long-term forecasting and modelling financial scenarios enabling sound business decisions.
The role is hybrid, 3 days/week on site, and can be based in either Ireland or Runcorn. If based in Runcorn, there is a requirement to spend 2 or 3 days every other week in the Ireland office.
Key responsibilities include:
* Business Partnering
– supporting the Sales and Marketing teams across a number of product categories, assisting in driving margins, controlling costs within budgets and developing business models and driving well informed commercial decision making
* Financial Planning & Analysis
– working with local management in developing Forecasts, Budgets and Medium Term Strategy for allocated business streams and cost centres
* Local and Global Reporting
– Production of a variety of monthly management reports to UK, region and Group reporting deadlines via SAP
The Candidate
* Commercially astute qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA) with at least 5 years' PQE
* Proven experience in FP&A, reporting and commercial business partnering
* Experience of ERP business systems – ideally SAP.
* Solid technical grounding including IFRS and advanced Excel skills.
* Confident communicator and influencer at senior level
* Proven leadership skills and experience managing high-performing teams
This is the key Finance role for a commercially astute finance leader with a mind for driving business performance.