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Assistant Finance Manager– NEC, Birmingham| Full-Time / Permanent. £40k+ excellent benefits including healthcare, wellbeing support, 23 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, life assurance, meals on duty, and more. This role offers the opportunity to become a trusted partner to the General Manager and Heads of Department across the entire warehouse operation. You'll take on a visible and influential position, building strong relationships with both client-side teams and internal stakeholders, while driving collaboration across the business. Through effective partnering and commercial insight, you'll play a key role in enhancing service delivery, improving cost efficiency, and supporting the contract through an exciting mobilisation phase, helping to shape its future success from the outset.
Job Responsibility
Effective business partnering with the onsite operations team, ensuring strong commercial and operational decision making, managing financial risks and opportunities
Delivering pro-active financial analysis with summarised findings and recommendations to support decision making
Take ownership for the financial controls and processes for the operation
Deliver analysis of key business reporting such as dashboards, month end reports, business reviews, client reports, budgets, flash forecasts, client requests and other ad-hoc analysis
Populating monthly balance sheet document for review, escalating key risks and opportunities
Be responsible along with the Venue GM for the overseeing of the budgeting and forecasting process for the venue
Assist in training of finance/operational teams in the use of business reporting and KPIs
Monitoring initiative delivery plans, challenging operational teams and where there is a risk to achievement, highlighting to senior stakeholders
Requirements
Experience of partnering non-finance professionals to support the delivery of financial information
Qualified Accountant or finalist (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) and a minimum of two years within a financial role
Experience of management accounting inclusive of accounting adjustments, producing reports/analysis to support commercial decision making
Analytical and with a high level of attention to detail
Proficient in Excel Macros & VBA
Experience of SAP and E15 / Power BI as analysis and reporting tools
Strong commercial acumen
Accountability & resilience
Leadership Behaviours
A high level of attention to detail
Proficient in Excel Macros & VBA
Experience of SAP and E15 / Power BI as analysis and reporting tools
Strong commercial acumen
Accountability & resilience
Being able to balance time and achieve tight deadlines
Commercially astute and quick to work through the many deadlines required back-to-back through the year
Ensuring the results and analysis presented is accurate and meaningful
Ability to adapt to changing environments & circumstances
Able to build relationships with stakeholders (in Compass and with clients, Ops and Finance) in the right way
An effective communicator with the ability to communicate oral and written information concisely and logically at all levels
Challenges constructively
Works collaboratively and ethically
Presenting detailed information in a succinct and clear way – often to non-finance people
Know the detail
Be data numerate and comfortable working with data to make data driven decisions
Understand the core drivers/issues and present in a way that is succinct and appropriate for the audience