Fintec Recruit are currently supporting our client with the recruiting of a Head of Commercial Finance & Business Partnering .This is a hybrid working role, 2 days per week in the office based in London.
This role leads the commercial finance agenda partnering with senior stakeholders to strengthen costing, modelling, forecasting, reporting, and systems improvement, with a strong focus on bid support, margin and cashflow optimisation, and high-quality reporting.
Responsibilities:
- Lead commercial finance support across project and income generation activity
- Provide insight on profitability, cost recovery and cashflow, highlighting risks and actions
- Partner with Business Development and Fundraising on financial bid inputs, from creation to submission
- Own and improve the project costing model, ensuring governance and timely sign-off
- Deliver bespoke modelling for complex commissioning requirements, including cost impact of required change
- Produce monthly project reporting, analyse variances, and support budget holders to manage performance
- Lead forecasting to end-of-contract and consolidate into the rolling organisational forecast
- Improve ledger integrity for projects, including journals/adjustments where required
- Deliver accurate commissioner and donor reporting to deadlines, escalating issues early
- Support systems improvements (self-serve reporting, dashboards, coding accuracy)
- Complete financial due diligence as needed
Key Requirements:
Essential
- Proven business partnering with non-finance stakeholders
- Qualified accountant
- Strong track record of systems and process improvement
- Advanced Excel and confident handling large datasets and reporting outputs
- Experience in financial modelling and supporting bids/tenders
- Clear communicator able to translate finance into practical decisions
Desirable
- Experience in charity and/or non-profit environments
- Exposure to Sage or similar reporting tools/dashboards
- Experience supporting regional/national service delivery models
Full details of the Head of Commercial Finance & Business Partnering role is available on application. To apply please submit your current CV or apply via our FINTEC recruit website. INDH