Commercial Controller

Overview

Commercial Controller has full financial responsibility for assigned Profit Centres and supports Operations through Financial Reporting and guidance to support delivery of financial targets.

Qualifications, Training and Experience:

• Minimum 3+ years accountancy experience in a commercial environment
• Professional qualification in the field of accountancy (ACA, ACCA, ACMA or equivalent)
• Knowledge of Microsoft applications
• Experience with budgeting, cost estimation and analysis and fiscal management principals and procedures.

Responsibilities

General

• Act as a support partner to the Operations team led by Chief Operating Officer and Service Delivery Directors who have P&L responsibility.
• Develop a 'no-surprises' culture.
• Take a proactive role in recommending structural changes within the vertical if required.
• Support CFO / COO / CCO in all Contract governance activities and liaise with client counterparts as necessary.

P&L Ownership / Performance Management and Margin Improvement

• Responsibility for the vertical management accounts, profit and loss and controllable cash flow of each assigned Profit Centre
• Drive performance, margin and accountability improvement throughout the vertical in conjunction with operations staff while fostering a continuous improvement culture. Develop an understanding of key business levers that drive contribution margin and proactively contribute to margin improvement initiatives.
• Monitoring performance and reporting variances to budget and prior year
• Develop and update appropriate KPIs across the vertical in conjunction with internal operations and resourcing planning teams with a view to fostering a culture of accountability.
• Ensuring the completeness and accuracy of billing - striving for 'on-time' and 'first time' billing; routine reconciliation of hours paid to hours charged.
• Ensure client adheres to payment terms, following up on any late invoices.
• Ensuring the on-time delivery of day-to-day Finance related tasks across the vertical.

Business Management / Budgeting / Forecasting

• Responsible for supporting Abtran's Commercial Pricing function as required from time to time.
• Drive margin from existing and new contracts and implementing learnings as required.
• Contract evaluation to PBT level
• Development and ownership of vertical budgeting, reforecasting and strategic planning with comparisons to prior year and budget / reforecast

Business Risk Management

• identifying, reporting and actioning control deficiencies where necessary
• Ensuring that deadlines are met, and standard operating procedures improved where necessary.
• Ensure processes are audited, reviewed and improved as required.

Teamwork

• Build positive working relationships across the organisation.
• Support innovation by developing strategies and creating opportunities to elicit new ideas from members of the business.
• Communicate changes clearly to all members of the team.