Finance Manager

Finance Manager

Location: London (Hybrid working)

Duration: 9 months

Pay rate: £350-£400 per day

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Job Description:

• Seeking a Finance Manager with a passion for process improvement, business partnering and stakeholder management to support our EU Middle Mile transportation network, ATS. 

• Continuously innovating on behalf of customers to deliver a larger selection, faster, and at lower prices. 

• In this role, you will drive profitability and customer experience by directly influencing the development, planning, and execution of our transportation network 

• You will be working closely with finance leaders, business partners and stakeholders to optimize cost whilst improving the customer experience. You are a person who enjoys operating in a dynamic, fast changing environment.  

• You are able to process complex and, at times, ambiguous data, identifying and addressing key risks and helping operations to develop efficient customer centric solutions. 

• You will have a proven track record of successfully managing multiple priorities, proactively and clearly communicating with key stakeholders, driving projects independently, and successfully delivering within the agreed timelines.

 Key responsibilities:  

• High Volume Event Strategy Partner with the business to deliver an standardised, integrated, E2E model which ensures delivering for our customers whilst delivering on cost 

• Labour Strategy Support projects and initiatives through robust financial analysis of ROI and be able to form a view and challenge the business. 

• Two fields of primary deliverables – working on lessons learnt from peak, delivering on improvement in processes to be better aligned/ set-up for the next high volume/peak event.

• Lots of business partnering, working on improvements, partnering with long term labour strategy team to make sure what how they are planning their capacity + having the right number of people at the right costs.

Basic qualifications:

• 6+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience  

• 6+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience – 

• 6+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience

Preferred experience:

• 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience  

• Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results