Macildowie Finance are working with a well-respected Leicestershire based business to recruit a Finance Manager. Our client is a fast paced and highly dynamic organisation with a proven track record of internal promotions and development planning. Reporting into the Finance Director, you will be responsible for supporting commercial and operational teams with the production of KPI's and your performance commentary, budgets, forecasts and decision support analytics. This role will have levels of autonomy and the opportunity to influence and drive key operational and commercial decisions at a strategic level. Your responsibilities will include; Act as a true Finance Business Partner - delivering reports in a clear and concise manner, helping non finance stakeholder to interpret financial performance metrics.Management, coaching and development of the Finance Team (3 direct reports, 7 in the wider team) Variance analysis - highlighting areas for potential improvement and providing commentary on key drivers.Take a lead on budgeting, planning and forecasting activity for the region, working closely with the commercial teams to help decipher information and provide your commentary on variance to plan/budgets.Sales and cost analysis and reporting - highlighting opportunities to improve business performance through efficiency gains.Continuous improvement of processes and projects in line with wider business initiativesPreparation and presentation of key performance statistics to senior level operational and commercial stakeholders.To be considered for this role you must be qualified CIMA, ACCA or ACA and have previous experience of managing and developing a team. Previous Commercial and Operational business partnering experience within a fast paced and dynamic market sector is essential You must have advanced data manipulation/ Excel skills including Pivots, Look Ups and Ifs.

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