Overview
Commercial Controller has full financial responsibility for assigned Profit Centers 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.
Desired Qualifications, Training and Experience:
- Demonstrated management reporting experience.
- Willingness to work at own initiative.
- Experience in identifying, assessing and developing margin opportunities to improve performance.
- Experience managing multiple projects with competing priorities.
- Demonstrated track record of managing to performance targets.
1. 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.
2. 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 organization.
- 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.
