The Role
Manages commercial finance for key client accounts, including financial reporting, profitability analysis, budgeting, forecasting, cash generation, risk analysis, and profit improvement. Partners with client services and operational teams, supports contract negotiations, oversees EMEA forecasting, ensures financial governance and reporting accuracy, and identifies process automation opportunities. Presents financial performance to clients, resolves credit control issues, and manages junior team members.
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We're hiring for a Commercial Finance Manager to join our team at adm Indicia!
As a Commercial Finance Manager, you will be a commercial partner to the client services teams led by the Business Director, challenging and driving the operational teams to optimise financial performance and improve efficiencies using financial and operational systems. Managing and controlling the financial performance for a single or small group of key blue-chip clients; owning the internal and external forecasting and reporting processes for the client accounts; and developing and coordinating relevant financial and risk analysis to drive good decision making.
You'll also be responsible for manging a small team remotely, ensuring they all feed into the team goals and tasks.
This is a remote-first role, but the successful candidate should be flexible to travel to the Bristol or London office for in-person meetings as and when required.
As a Commercial Finance Manager, you will be a commercial partner to the client services teams led by the Business Director, challenging and driving the operational teams to optimise financial performance and improve efficiencies using financial and operational systems. Managing and controlling the financial performance for a single or small group of key blue-chip clients; owning the internal and external forecasting and reporting processes for the client accounts; and developing and coordinating relevant financial and risk analysis to drive good decision making.
You'll also be responsible for manging a small team remotely, ensuring they all feed into the team goals and tasks.
This is a remote-first role, but the successful candidate should be flexible to travel to the Bristol or London office for in-person meetings as and when required.
Key Responsibilities
Commercial
- Own monthly financial reporting for client accounts, including profitability, volumes, working capital, cash generation, KPIs, risks, opportunities, trends and variances.
- Support the development of profit improvement plans and help drive actions that improve account performance.
- Partner with operational teams on annual account planning, budgeting, forecasting and monthly reforecasting.
- Support contract negotiations, renewals and amendments through financial analysis and collaboration with internal legal teams.
Client Management
- Produce financial reports for clients covering spend, working capital, KPIs, risks, opportunities and performance trends.
- Attend client review meetings and present financial performance.
- Act as an escalation point for credit control queries and support issue resolution with clients.
Process & Governance
- Support the governance and effective use of operational systems, ensuring accurate reporting and reconciliation to accounting records.
- Ensure compliance with group processes, authority limits, foreign exchange procedures and VAT requirements.
- Oversee the EMEA budgeting and forecasting process, ensuring accuracy across the region.
- Review operational processes and identify opportunities for improvement and automation.
Business Partnering & Leadership
- Act as a trusted business partner to Business Directors, Account Managers and wider account teams.
- Work closely with operational teams to help interpret financial information and understand the financial impact of business decisions.
- Manage and develop junior team members where applicable.
- Contribute to the wider finance team in maintaining strong financial control across the business.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Fully qualified accountant preferred but would also consider QBE.
- At least 4+ years' financial, commercial or accounting experience.
- Strong IT skills, including knowledge of Sage, advanced Excel and data manipulation.
- Experience of POS stock and its impact on financial statements (preferred).
- Honest, accountable and self-driven, with the ability to work effectively under time pressure.
- Strong communication skills and professional presence, with significant interaction across client and operational teams.
- Energetic and partnership-oriented approach.
- Customer-focused, with an innovative and challenging mindset.
Equal Opportunities
adm-Indicia is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating a diverse environment. We recruit, employ, develop, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. Should you need any reasonable adjustments made to this application process, please don't hesitate to let us know.
About
As a next-generation brand activation agency, adm Indicia's purpose is to simplify our clients’ below-the-line marketing, build sustainable ROI and engage their customers across the path to purchase. Everything we do is optimised through leading strategic capability and actioned through executional excellence.We transform marketing compromise into a powerful co-promise, creating and activating meaningful brand experiences that drive ROI. Brands have had to juggle multiple agencies, struggle to see value in ever-increasing customer data, and deliver disconnected digital and physical experiences – just some of the compromise frustrating marketing for too long. With joined-up strategy, execution and seamless activation, our combined expertise means we can help brands deliver impact through every stage of the customer journey.Founded in 1992, we have a global footprint with 46 offices in 33 countries, allowing us to deliver local activation of global strategies for brands across the world. Recognized with a platinum rating by EcoVadis for sustainability, we are experts at identifying the most impactful and sustainable solutions for over 800 brands around the globe.
Skills Required
- At least 4 years of financial, commercial, or accounting experience
- Strong IT skills, including Sage, advanced Excel, and data manipulation
- Strong communication skills and professional presence
- Ability to work effectively under time pressure
- Honest, accountable, self-driven, energetic, and partnership-oriented approach
- Customer-focused, innovative, and challenging mindset
- Fully qualified accountant qualification; QBE candidates may also be considered
- Experience with POS stock and its impact on financial statements
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The Company
What We Do
adm Group is a global marketing execution partner to some of the world's most iconic brands. Our purpose is to create meaningful and sustainable brand experiences. We transform marketing execution by bringing together intuitive technology, our expertise in managing complex global supply chains, and a network of local experts to empower marketing, procurement, supply chain and sales teams bringing simplicity, visibility, agility, and efficiency to drive end-to-end marketing execution and performance. We are trusted to deliver solutions in creative innovation, strategic sourcing, final mile execution, analytics and data-driven insights. Founded in 1992, we have a global footprint with 46 offices in 33 countries, allowing us to deliver local activation of global strategies for brands across the world. Recognized with a platinum rating by EcoVadis for sustainability, we are experts at identifying the most impactful and sustainable solutions for over 800 brands around the globe. For more information, please visit https://www.admgroup.com
