Location: Kings Cross, London or Portsmouth, Hampshire. Hybrid working applies alongside travel between the offices.
Where do you fit in?
Reporting to the Commercial Finance Director, you’ll play a key role in balancing short term departmental results against long term, cross-departmental goals. You’ll drive value creation and have an entrepreneurial mindset for all aspects of the P&L, running it as if it were your own business. You’ll drive top line growth, prioritise marketing investments and deliver efficiencies in the cost base. Additionally, you’ll have a sharp focus on cash and capital allocation. You'll use investment criteria (Payback, ROI, IRR, NPV etc.) to identify the ideas to pursue and those to be dropped. You'll be the finance ‘owner’ of Checkatrade’s value proposition and monetisation models. This includes picking product ‘winners’ and making the case for ways to monetise consumer demand most successfully for our paying members. You’ll inspire and lead a team of four Commercial Finance Business Partners setting a high bar of expectation whilst developing future business leaders.
What’s in it for you?
- A generational opportunity to join a modern marketplace business with impressive growth plans. We are looking to more than quadruple our revenue over the coming years! You could be part of this!
- An opportunity to work with top notch business leaders across technology, commerce, marketing, product and more!
- A role with a direct impact on our bottom line, future ambitions, and innovations. We are not here to settle for a status quo. Instead, we are here to challenge it, to evolve, to innovate, and to grow. We are here to be the best at what we do, and to inspire others to do the same too.
- An excellent salary and benefits package including car allowance, up to 20% annual bonus, private medical, EV Salary sacrifice scheme plus much more.
- This will be a career building opportunity!
- An exciting journey ahead .
- ACA/ACCA/ICAEW or CIMA qualified Head of Commercial Finance with a track record of driving growth.
- You'll have experience in a similar fast paced marketplace or technology organisation.
- You'll have an entrepreneurial mindset for all aspects of the P&L.
- Advanced financial modelling skills and sound technical experience across Excel and PowerBI or similar.
- Excellent people skills – you'll be credible and influential with a consultative and collaborative approach that engages teams and leaders alike.
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