Commercial Finance Lead

Commercial Finance Lead

Contract Length: 12 Months

Location: Croydon, Manchester, Sheffield, Solihull (2 days per week onsite)

IR35: Inside

Security Clearance: SC

Minimum Requirement: Commercial procurement with MCIPS qualification.

Finance with a procurement background.

Essential criteria:

• Manages Complexity and delivers a quality Service evidence of leading teams or activities and experience in successfully delivering commercial and financial objectives.

• Commercial Focus: Proven track record of applying financial knowledge and analysis in the context of understanding commercial issues and opportunities throughout the commercial lifecycle. This would include understanding supplier financial health, investment decisions, and financial levers in contracts and subsequently designing or influencing approaches to maximize value for money and minimize financial risk.

• Builds Collaborative Relationships: Successfully worked with a range of stakeholders and partners, using communication and collaboration to deliver successfully, challenge assumptions, and positively influence changes to ways of working.

• Decisive: evidence of applying best commercial and financial practices and policies to address government objectives.

• Coaching Manager: experience of coaching, managing through change, and supporting wellbeing. Leading and sharing best practice development to drive up Commercial Finance knowledge and coaching commercial teams to build capabilities and confidence.

• Experience gathering, analyzing, and interpreting financial information with Excel and financial modelling skills to a good level.

• The ability to understand and summarize complex financial information quickly and accurately and present conclusions and recommendations.

If you are interested in this position and would like to learn more, please send through your CV, and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible. Please note that candidates are often shortlisted within 48 hours.