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Your new company

Hays are partnering exclusively with a highly successful and growing business, who deliver a range of exceptional services to their customers. You will be working within the UK division of an international group and will play a vital part in a key project they are delivering.

Your new role

This is a newly created role that will work in close partnership with the leadership team. This role is responsible for leading the strategic financial management — providing actionable insights and commercial analysis that drive profitable growth and data-informed decision-making aligned with business objectives. Additionally, the role supports key customer accounts, ensuring a strong financial focus across the business to deliver services in full alignment with contractual agreements.

Specifically, your responsibilities will be to:

• Partner with commercial, sales and operation teams to evaluate business performance, pricing strategy and profitability.
• Deliver timely and accurate management reports to the board that include clear insights and recommendations that drive performance and profit.
• Support the local leadership team(s) with robust business cases, forecasts and scenario planning.
• Lead the financial planning and analysis of key customer account(s), providing budgeting, forecasting and long-term financial planning.
• Become the Subject Matter Expert for the commercial contract with the customer and ensure compliance
• Develop a strong commercial relationship with the customer and be the conduit between them and the Metro leadership and finance teams
• Monitor key commercial KPI’s that include revenue growth, profitability and margins. The ability to be in the detail is essential.
• Ensure financial controls and governance are embedded with commercial decision-making.
• Improve financial processes, tools and systems to ensure data accuracy and efficiency.
• Work with the broader finance team to maintain compliance and consistency within financial operations.

This is a full-time role, working 40 hours per week, between Monday and Friday. The role will be on a hybrid basis, with the expectation of being on site for 3 days a week, but you may be required to do more if the role requires it.

What you'll need to succeed

You will:

• Be a fully qualified accountant
• Have experience in outward-facing commercial finance or business partnering
• Possess strong stakeholder management experience
• Have excellent financial planning and analysis skills
• Have excellent analytical and problem-solving ability
• Possess prior experience in creating and developing financial processes and KPI's
• Have advanced Excel and financial modelling proficiency

What you'll get in return

You will receive a competitive base salary, flexible hybrid working options, free on-site parking, private medical insurance, health cash plan, and life assurance cover.

What you need to do now

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