Contract Commercial Finance Accountant

Spectrum IT's Portsmouth client are currently seeking to recruit a Contract Commercial Finance Accountant/Manager to join them on an initial 6 month contract. The role has been deemed inside IR35 and will be a hybrid working role requiring 3 days onsite per week. (This can be in the Portsmouth or London office, possibly split depending on work.)

As part of the Commercial Finance team you will work closely with senior stakeholders and team members to influence decision making and shape the future direction of the business financially. The right candidate for this role will be highly commercial and analytical and be able to balance both short term departmental results against long term, cross-departmental goals. You will apply your commercial and financial knowledge across the Product, Engineering & IT teams to support initiatives from inception to completion.

Responsibilities

• Work with key stakeholders across the business to set short, medium and long-term targets to maximise returns from new initiatives, ensuring the delivery of intended benefits and efficiencies
• Work with Product & Engineering community to establish a clear link between client initiatives and the enablers that will drive the success of the Year Plan, Budget and quarterly objectives
• Support on initial 'quick' sizing and appraisal of new initiatives within the product and engineering team
• Use investment hurdles and impact-effort evaluations to help determine which initiatives should be prioritised
• Ensure the financial impact of product and engineer initiatives are understood and captured in our forecasting
• Support the business to deliver on capitalised salaries and understand implications of additional resourcing requirements
• Attend and contribute to monthly group reporting on capital expenditure
• Support and challenge business areas in receipt of Product and Change initiatives to ensure intended benefits are given sufficient focus
• Establish a 'feedback loop' for ensuring learnings from completed initiatives feed continuous improvement of new ones
• Work with Product teams to evaluate MVP and POC performance to determine next steps
• Support on investment appraisals across the business that require capex investment
• Work with IT to drive efficiencies and delivery annual opex spend
• M&A appraisal - provide support for business cases and modelling for any identified M&A targets

Skills & Experience

• Qualified accountant
• 3+ years post qualification experience in similarly fast paced environments
• Experience of Power BI desirable with a focus on data and analysis
• Advanced financial modelling skills
• Pro-active and strives for excellence
• Be comfortable identifying priorities and setting your own agenda as you will be working collaboratively to deliver wider team and business objectives
• Knows what good looks like; takes personal responsibility and strives for excellence
• Delivery focused with attention to detail
• Able to flex between using large volumes of data and summary-level information to make informed and succinctly articulated recommendations
• Demonstrates explicit care to protect all personal and confidential data and information you may encounter with members and suppliers (this list may not be exhaustive) whether that data is held on computer or found in manual, paper systems.

For more information and to submit your interest, please apply with an updated CV. Suitable candidates for this will must be a qualified account (ACCA, CIMA, ACA etc.)

Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.