General Manager - Finance

The purpose of this role is to assist the Commercial Finance team in delivering timely and accurate information to the business through analysis of business unit performance. The role will utilise financial analysis techniques to provide insight, analysis and trends on critical business issues impacting the day-to-day performance of a business unit for consideration by senior stakeholders.

Job Description:

Key responsibilities:

• Collects and analyses financial information to support commercial decision making
• Identifies and monitors underlying drivers of cost and revenue variances between actual expenditure vs. forecast/budget, highlighting issues and margin impact where necessary
• Works proactively with the business to analyse and build the forecasts, improves data capture and process and helps generate useful insight to share with the business
• Supports the business in their development of short, medium and long-term resourcing requirements
• Provides analytical support focused around obtaining the optimal balance of pricing, early payment discounts, rebates and volume commitments
• Participates on bid teams for pitches and new business driving appropriate commercial terms, pricing and profitability
• Supplies ad-hoc financial information and analysis as and when required