26 Oct
UDG Healthcare
Manchester
This is a rare and exciting opportunity for an accomplished Commercial Finance Leader to join our thriving business. The Director of Commercial Finance is responsible for overseeing all financial aspects of the business, focused on driving profitability, value, and long-term financial stability. Acting as both the Revenue Lead and Financial Controller, this role ensures 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 strategic initiatives and business decisions.
Your strong leadership and interpersonal skills will support the need to influence at all levels and make consistently sound commercial decisions that drive value.
You will oversee the financial control function, ensuring accurate financial reporting and compliance with regulatory standards and be pivotal in the successful financial management and commercial success of the business.
What you'll be doing...
You will be take accountability for both the Financial Control and Business Intelligence teams within our business, but key to your role will be to work alongside our Executive (other parts of Finance, Operations, Business Leads, Growth Leads, The People Team and the CFO and CEO) to report on and to influence performance:
- 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 optimal 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 a focus on operational excellence and to drive value
- Ensure all risks and opportunities are known, quantified and managed
- Support the monthly interpretation and reporting to Group and within XD
- Risk Management & compliance
- Ensure compliance with all statutory obligations, tac regulations and internal policies
- Identify, assess and mitigate financial risks, ensuring effective control mechanisms are in place to protect the business
- Work with external auditors and regulatory bodies to manage audits, reporting and compliance requirements
- Ensure there is focus on key business drivers
- Lead the Business Intelligence team to help the business unlock value from data analytics
- Utilize monthly operational meetings to focus on themes that will drive to operational excellence, linking the team by team perspective to the overall business performance (forecast)
- Day-to-day integrity of all Operational Systems and Data Output
- Lead the Business Intelligence Team, ensuring real time data is reliable, accurate and relevant and that routine reports are produced (weekly, monthly, quarterly and annually)
- Develop a roadmap for the evolution of our key business tools
- Work with the business to introduce new ways of looking at data, new routines to create accountability and to drive continuous improvement
- Work with our Senior Business Analyst to evolve how the different tools link together, and drive to make it easier to produce data following through on our ambition to utilize Power BI (or any new development such as the use of AI)
What you'll need to have...
- A Finance or Business professional level qualification
- A track record of driving value by engaging and influencing the wider business to push to operational excellence
- Deep experience of FP&A; in complex organisations
- A solid foundation of working in a Finance function (strong accounting knowledge – experience in the whole range of reporting and transactional activities including external and internal audits)
- A track record of unlocking value from data analytics within a project-based environment
- A business savvy approach with experience to add value to business decisions across many disciplines
- An approachable team player with strong communication skills to have influence across the organisation
- A track record of getting behind the strategies of businesses and providing competitive insights
- An ability to retain a sense of humour even when things are not straight forward
- A highly organised approach combined with an ability to take the complex and make it simple!
A bit about us...
Inizio Engage is a strategic, commercial and creative engagement partner that specializes in healthcare. Our passionate, global workforce augments local expertise and diverse mix of skills with data,
science and technology to deliver bespoke engagement solutions that help clients reimagine how they engage with their patients, payers, people and providers to improve treatment outcomes.
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 & 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.
Some of our Benefits...
We promote opportunities to learn, grow, train and get involved in broader workstreams that add to our work culture as well as a number of reward and recognition initiatives
Inizio Engage, XD offers a suite of benefits and perks including (but not limited to):
- Competitive salary
- 25 days’ annual leave plus public holidays, company closure over Christmas plus a personal day
- Volunteering leave
- Private Medical Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Pension Scheme
- Hybrid working
Group Income Protection
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.