Role Purpose:
- Lead on Finance reporting to the wider business, spotting and reviewing trends in business performance, and surfacing that insight to senior stakeholders.
- Lead the annual planning process and deliver a consolidated financial model that underpins the Company plan and forecasts.
- Show a deep understanding of the CarTrawler business model, understanding the knock-on impacts of decisions in one area on financial metrics in other business lines.
- Finance contact point for shareholder reporting requirements and day to day queries.
- Show the curiosity to find data that delivers actionable insight for the Business and communicate that data to stakeholders in a meaningful way that both informs and leads to action and results.
- Finance Business Partner to budget holders across the business, embedding a return on investment (ROI) focus across those stakeholders and their decision making.
- Lead a team of FP&A Analysts who will;
Deliver accurate Budgeting, Forecasting and financial analysis delivered in a clear and understandable format, that turns insights into actions to drive effective decision-making.
Proactively identify and execute commercial opportunities that create value for CarTrawler.
Apply excellent financial and commercial acumen to influence decision-making across the business, ensuring alignment with strategic and financial objectives
Reporting to: Head of Commercial Finance
Main Accountabilities and responsibilities:
- Lead the completion of the annual planning process (e.g. annual budgets, quarterly forecasts and long-term plans). Deliver a timely and accurate consolidated financial model that underpins the Company plan with all material assumptions challenged and fully understood.
- Review monthly performance in the company P&L and Cashflow to provide key decision-makers with insightful, data-driven and digestible financial analysisthat drive value.
- Own the production of monthly reporting & other analysis as required by key stakeholders (Leadership Team, Board, Investors and senior management) to support informed decision making.
- Play a leading role in cost reporting, promoting cost discipline and embedding an ROI mindset by providing Budget Holders with insightful cost reporting packs and educating stakeholders on their spend (vs. Plan, prior year, full year outlook etc)
- Manage relationship with our investors around reporting requirements, addressing any day to day reporting queries and maintaining a strong working relationship
- Production of external market insights including benchmarking of CarTrawler performance against the external market
- Maintain and evolve a robust management reporting framework which gives the Leadership Team the ability to view company performance (Actuals vs Plan, Prior year and Forecast) at the relevant granularity throughout a month.
- Play a leading role in evolving and improving FP&A processes for planning/forecasting and reporting; leveraging best practices on data extraction, process automation and AI
- Develop a strong relationship with the Finance Business Partnering (FBP) team to ensure that any Financial data they are using is aligned with FP&A data and methodologies while also challenging the FBP team to understand main drivers of business performance and validate that trading strategies are driving real value.
- Contribute on special projects and/or deep dive analysis commissioned by senior management, Board, or Investors on adhoc basis
- Assist in month-end reporting requirements as required; supporting wider finance teams.
- Team leadership: Provide strong team leadership by:
- Hiring, managing, and developing high-performing talent.
- Setting clear expectations (e.g., OKRs), deliver regular, actionable feedback through performance evaluations, and proactively address development needs or performance concerns in alignment with company procedures.
- Fostering a culture of accountability, motivation, and continuous growth to drive team success
Knowledge and Experience:
- Qualification: A bachelor's degree in accounting or finance and an accountancy qualification (ACA/CIMA/ACCA).
- Experience: Minimum of 4+ years PQE in a similar FP&A/Commercial Finance role; with 2+ years in a manager role.
- Excellent financial acumen with a strong purpose driven focus on creating/adding value.
- Communication skills: Communicate succinctly and effectively across diverse audiences with an ability to build clear narrative around the numbers that captures the attention of senior stakeholders and turns financial insights into actions.
- Excellent analytical capability, conducting analysis and distilling this into recommendations which the business can understand and use for business decisions.
- Accuracy & attention to detail is critical as the information provided is used to inform business decisions and influence strategy.
- Abstract thinker: ability to think outside the box, see the bigger picture through consideration of future implications and scenarios and then use these to make recommendations that add real value.
- Problem solver: ability to work with ambiguous information to determine root cause or drivers and then put forward resolutions.
- Stakeholder management and relationship development: Capable of building relationships with key finance and non-finance stakeholders.
- Data driven decision making: Demonstrates a practical approach to decision-making, focusing on delivering results and making considered choices that add value.
- Self-starter attributes: High levels of curiosity, drive, ambition, ownership and hunger.
- Team Management: Proven ability to manage, develop, and lead a high-performing team.
- Organization and time management: ability to manage several priorities at once, delegating to your team where appropriate.
- Technical skills: Advanced knowledge of MS Office packages especially Excel modelling. An understanding of ThoughtSpot and Tableau experience a distinct advantage.
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