Commercial Finance Manager

Closing Date for Application:

ADEY, the market leader in the provision of residential water treatment products for closed loop heating and cooling systems in the UK, is looking for a Project Manager to join the team.  

Part of the Genuit Groups’ Climate Management Solutions (CMS) business unit, ADEY has ambitious growth plans to continue protecting the world's heating and cooling systems, to have a positive impact on the environment and people's lives. 

The Role

The Commercial Finance Manager will be responsible for delivering essential KPI information, commercial insight and support across all ADEY divisions, covering the UK, Europe and North America. This is a key position within ADEY’s Finance team and plays a vital role in improving our reporting and data insight capabilities and driving stronger commercial finance acumen across the business – all vital to meet the growth ambitions of the ADEY group.

The role is based at ADEY’s Stonehouse office and reports directly to the Financial Controller. Hybrid working is available: 3 days in office and 2 days at home.

Core Areas of Responsibility

We Work Together

• Work closely with Sales, Finance and Operational teams to ensure accurate, timely and insightful KPI reporting is available to key business stakeholders.

• Develop and own segment, customer and product level daily sales reporting capabilities - providing key decision makers with the most relevant information possible.

• Work with sales teams to analyse and improve return on promotional investment requests and customer incentives and contracts, driving improved margin.

• Collaborate with colleagues across the business to produce the annual budget and quarterly/rolling forecasts for all ADEY entities.

• Produce ad-hoc financial and operational analysis as required by Financial Controller, Finance Director and wider ADEY leadership team.

We Take Ownership

• Provide insight and analysis into business profitability, specifically net sales and material margins, for all ADEY businesses, and driving clear price/vol/mix analysis and targets.

• With input from the FC and FD, manage the quarterly and annual sales bonus program, ensuring the performance of the Uk sales team is properly monitored and appropriately incentivised.

• Take responsibility for providing ADEY data to the heating industry trade associations and provide analysis to the business on the sector statistics and metrics reported back to Adey.

• Assist with the preparation of audit schedules, supporting documentation and responses to audit queries.

• Handle sensitive financial data responsibly, in line with internal controls and governance requirements.

We Find A Better Way

• Identify opportunities to improve business processes, reporting efficiency and data quality, particularly as new systems are embedded.

• Contribute to the development of process documentation and training materials to support system resilience and knowledge sharing.

• Help increase financial acumen across the business leading finance training for non-finance managers.

• Support improvements in how data is captured, validated and reported to customers and internal teams to provide actionable insights.

Capabilities required

• Strong excel & business systems experience. Power BI knowledge would be helpful.

• Experience in the manufacturing or FMCG industry is desirable.

• An accounting qualification is beneficial but not essential, but commercial finance experience is essential.

• Highly organised with strong attention to detail and numerical accuracy.

• Strong analytical skills to analyse and communicate performance and opportunities/risks to forecast

• Able to build relationships across all levels within a business and confidence to challenge investment requests

• Accountable and self‑motivated, with the ability to manage recurring deadlines and competing priorities.

• Resilient and methodical, able to follow issues through to resolution.

• Continuous‑improvement mindset, with confidence to question inefficient practices.

• Clear, professional communicator, able to explain financial and rebate information accurately.

• Team‑focused, collaborative and willing to support colleagues during peak periods or absences.  

Benefits

• Salary: £50,000-£60,000 DOE

• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays 

• Pension contribution matched up to 8% 

• Life Assurance 3x base salary 

• Private health scheme 

• Genuit sharesave scheme 

Here at the Genuit Group we recognise and develop the contribution our people make to the Group’s success and are committed to attracting talent from the widest pool. We have a role to play in making the built environment more sustainable, building a low carbon business ourselves as well as delivering sustainable solutions at scale.