Commercial Finance Lead - #1694527

As Lead of Commercial Finance, you will oversee all financial aspects of the business, focusing on driving profitability, value, and long-term financial stability. Being both the Revenue Lead and Financial Controller, you will ensure optimal financial performance through strategic planning, revenue management, cost control and financial forecasting.

You will have solid experience of how complex businesses are organised for success and have an ability to translate financial insights into projects and decisions.

You will take accountability for both the Financial Control and Business Intelligence teams within our business. You will partner with our multiple executives (other parts of Finance, Operations, Business Leads, Growth Leads, The People Team and the CFO and CEO) to report on and to influence performance.

What You'll Do...

Financial Leadership & Control

• Maintain and evolve financial policies, procedures and controls to safeguard company assets and enhance operational efficiency
• Monitor cashflow, profitability, working capital and liquidity to ensure financial health of the business
  
  

FP&A

• Lead the monthly, quarterly and annual forecast / budget disciplines (P&L, B.S and CF)
• Ensure there is a rigour to all assumptions and that the business both understands and buys into these
• Ensure that the forecast is used to influence and lead value
• Ensure all risks and opportunities are known, quantified and managed
• Support the monthly interpretation and reporting to Group and within XD
  
  

Ensure there is focus on important goals

• Lead the Business Intelligence team to help the business unlock value from data analytics
• Use monthly operational meetings to focus on themes that emphasises on continuous improvement throughout the business and linking the team by team perspective to forecast
• Lead the Business Intelligence Team, ensuring real-time data is reliable, accurate and that routine reports are produced.
  
  

Develop a roadmap for evolving our main business tools

• Work with the business to introduce new ways of looking at data and new routines.
• Work with our Senior Business Analyst to evolve how the different tools link together.
  
  

What You'll Need To Have...

• A Finance or Business professional level qualification
• Experience of project or job cost accounting
• Experience in driving, engaging and influencing the wider business to emphasises continuous improvement throughout the business
• Deep experience of FP&A in complex organisations
• A solid foundation of working in a Finance department ( accounting knowledge – experience in the whole range of reporting and transactional activities including external and internal audits)
• Experience unlocking value from data analytics within a project-based environment
• High level of knowledge in matters of business across many disciplines
• Experience getting behind the strategies of businesses and providing competitive insights
• Experience taking the complex and making it simple!
  
  

Just a Few Of Our Benefits...

• Great compensation package
• 25 days' annual leave plus public holidays, company closure over Christmas plus a personal day plus volunteering leave
• Private Medical and Life Insurance
• Pension Scheme
• Hybrid working
• Group Income Protection
  
  

A Bit About Us...

Engage XD is an unusually shaped communications group that creates experiences that inspire lasting change. We partner with clients to provide employee engagement, learning & training solutions, scientific engagement and capability building, all underpinned by applied behavioural science. We engage internal and external audiences through the creation and delivery of live and virtual experiences, film, digital, and immersive content.

Our family of brands is made up of: Emota, Forty1 and Nazarѐ.

We believe in our values: We empower everyone | We rise to the challenge | We work as one | We ask what if | We do the right thing, and we will ask you how your personal values align to ours.

Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.