Finance Manager - DV Cleared

Gloucestershire  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Job Role: Finance Manager

Location: Gloucestershire

Type: Contract

Duration: 6 months

Salary/Rate: Market Rates

Start Date: ASAP

Clearance: DV Clearance

Finance Manager - Contract - Gloucestershire - Market Rates

Key Purpose of Role:

  • Drives financial performance and business unit strategy
  • Owns relationship & influences at Head of Finance and Security Finance Director
  • Leads the commercial pricing activities for a defined financial area within a business unit to meet needs of all stakeholders

Key Responsibilities:

  • Contributes towards the development of Business Unit/functional finance strategy
  • Knowledge of financial process and specific financial systems. Strong core finance knowledge
  • Gives financial guidance to senior leadership teams and guides more junior roles and advises and coaches on financial policy and practices that support the company's long term goals
  • Be responsible to ensure that New business is priced up accurately and that all know risks (both Financial and non-financial) are clearly documented and understood
  • Fully embrace the tools and processes that are required to be used as part of a bid
  • Drive and input to the bid team decisions on key commercial terms, being a subject matter expert. Includes completion of the Finance and Legal brief highlighting key areas with mitigation
  • Ensure that senior management are fully briefed in order that decisions can be taken in an open and honest way with full transparency of numbers and issues
  • Work with other colleagues as part of Bid team
  • Engage with other Line of Business' and industry experts where necessary to ensure all known issues are explored and highlighted
  • To be involved in and support negotiations with the customer where relevant
  • Gives financial guidance to senior leadership teams and guides more junior roles
  • Always be looking to identify areas where improvements can be made and act upon them
  • Able to carry out tasks effectively, and manage problems/issues before escalation
  • Decision making mainly according to established solutions but handles new challenges and looks to make improvements to existing processes

Key Skills:

  • Be able to understand the customer's drivers, success criteria, problem statement
  • Be able to clearly articulate optimum position and offer solutions/alternatives where that position might be at odds with customer requirements
  • Be able to contribute to the assessment of price versus customer budget or market expectation
  • Be able to engage in detailed conversation in order to identify and mitigate risk
  • Be a valuable attendee in external negotiationS

RECOMMEND A FRIEND: If you have professional friends/colleagues who would be interested in one of our roles and our excellent levels of service too, we'd like to recognise your recommendations with a 'thank you' of our own. For every colleague you refer who then starts a role through Datasource either Contract or Permanent, we will send you £300!

You will be required to hold a minimum of DV Clearance. If you do not hold an active DV Clearance please familiarise yourself with the vetting process before applying.

Hit the 'Apply now' button to apply and to discuss this role further. We will be delighted to hear from you!

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Start date
ASAP
Duration
6 months
From
Datasource Computer Employment
Published at
16.05.2018
Project ID:
1555564
Contract type
Freelance
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