Finance Manager - Commercial & Performance - #2134719

Finance Manager – Commercial & Performance

The Wise Group
Glasgow | Flexible | Hybrid Working
£55,000–£58,000 plus excellent benefits

Summary

Iconic Resourcing is proud to be retained exclusively by The Wise Group - one of Scotland's leading social enterprises - to find their next Finance Manager – Commercial & Performance. The Wise Group is evolving its Finance function, creating a stronger connection between financial performance, delivery and growth.

Reporting to the Head of Finance, the Finance Manager – Commercial & Performance will work closely with Service Delivery and Commercial & Partnerships, helping colleagues understand financial and contract performance, what is driving change and what that means for the decisions ahead.

Supported by a Financial Analyst, the role will use financial information to look ahead, challenge assumptions and turn insight into action. It will also play an important role in bids, pricing and new opportunities, helping shape the financial and commercial assumptions at the outset and ensuring these carry through into mobilisation and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Be a trusted Finance partner to Service Delivery and Commercial & Partnerships, providing insight, support and constructive challenge.

• Get underneath contract and service performance, understanding the financial and operational drivers behind it.

• Use management information, forecasts and analysis to identify emerging risks, opportunities and choices.

• Provide financial and commercial input into bids, pricing and new opportunities, testing assumptions and ensuring proposals stack up.

• Develop and challenge financial models, business cases, investment proposals and options.

• Strengthen the link from bid and pricing through mobilisation and into delivery, ensuring assumptions and commitments remain understood as services go live.

• Support the Head of Finance with enterprise-wide forecasting, performance and forward-looking financial insight.

• Lead and develop the Financial Analyst.

• Work closely with the Finance Manager – Accounting & Control to ensure insight and decision-making are underpinned by strong financial information and controls.

Person Specification

• Qualified CIMA, ACCA, CA or equivalent, with broad relevant finance experience.

• Strong commercial and financial judgement, with experience of performance analysis, forecasting and financial modelling.

• Curious and able to get beyond what the numbers say to understand why.

• Able to translate complex financial information into clear insight and practical choices.

• Confident building trusted relationships and providing constructive challenge.

• Comfortable working alongside operational and commercial colleagues and getting underneath how services and contracts actually work.

• Enjoys working alongside people and understands that strong business partnering means being visible and spending time with teams, including in person where that helps build relationships and understanding.

• Able to work with ambiguity, test assumptions and explore different scenarios.

• Experience of pricing, business cases, investment appraisal or financial support to bids and new opportunities would be valuable.

• Able to lead and develop others.

• Understands that value at the Wise Group is about social impact as well as financial return.

Why the Wise Group?

The Wise Group is a social enterprise with a clear purpose: to help lift people out of poverty.

For more than 40 years we have worked across Scotland and the North East of England, supporting people and communities to overcome barriers and create better futures.

At the heart of our approach is Relational Mentoring – starting with the person rather than the service and building trusted relationships that help people navigate challenges and make lasting change.

Today, the Wise Group is also evolving. We are investing in our data, evidence, technology, partnerships and commercial capability and are increasingly focused on making more of what we have built – our experience, relationships, evidence and capability.

Finance has an important part to play in that next stage. We are building a function that combines strong financial control with better insight, commercial thinking and closer relationships with the organisation.

For the person joining us, that means an opportunity to help shape how Finance works – not simply reporting what has happened, but helping us understand what is changing, what comes next and what we should do about it

How to Apply

If you think you have the experience that we are looking for we would love to hear from you. Please apply with your CV or contact Cameron Brown at Iconic Resourcing for more information. Iconic Resourcing are retained on the search for this role - all third party applications will be directed to Iconic Resourcing for review.

At Iconic Resourcing we are engaged by many leading organisations across Scotland and our aim is to keep the recruitment process simple. The people we work with are often in demand professionals, so we work in a completely agile way which means discussions don't need to be during working hours, we can arrange video calls at times convenient to you. Please visit our website to view all our Iconic Jobs across Scotland.

Iconic Resourcing is an equal opportunities employer and all applications will be treated as such. We act as both an employment business and an employment agency.