Commercial Finance Manager

Job Title: Commercial Finance Manager

Location: Fulwood Preston

Contract Type:Permanent 37.5 hours a week

We are always looking for great talent to join our team and help achieve our ambitious goals and growth. We care about our people and we care about the future of community health and how CHEC can play an innovative part in making this great with your help.

If you are care focused and looking to join an organisation that is thriving on success then CHEC is your employer of choice! We have an exciting opportunity for anew Commercial Finance Managerto support our ambitious growth plans as we continue to expand throughout the UK.

About the Role

The Commercial Finance Manager will beresponsible for providing financial insight business partnering and commercial analysis that drive revenue growth and margin improvement. This is a brand new role for CHEC and there is an opportunity to make a real role owns customer-level economics pricing support and commercial decision analysis acting as a key partner to Commercial Contracts and Data.

We are looking for someone to be accountable for revenue management across the organisation and business partnering with the Commercial. This role ensures accurate monthly revenue accounting delivers insightful forecasting analysis and upholds strong financial controls.

We are looking for someone who can:

• Work with FP&A to link commercial insights into forecasts and budgets.
• Partner with Commercial under the leadership of the line manager to contract negotiation pricing decisions and commercial negotiations.
• Produce regular commercial insight on revenue margin churn and patient behaviour.
• Work with the Commercial and Contracts Teams to understand the performance forecasts and areas of improvement.
• Responsible for building relationships and managing external stakeholders in tandem with the Contracts and Commercial teams.
• Drive continuous improvement in forecasting revenue recognition processes and commercial data quality.
• Lead customer profitability contract economics and pricing/margin analysis.
• Provide monthly revenue analysis and variance explanations against budget and forecast.
• Support management reporting (e.g. revenue by specialism customer contract).
• Assist with budgeting and forecasting for revenue streams.
• Collaborate on KPI dashboards (e.g. debtor days billing lag cash conversion).
• Build relationships externally with Customers (ICBs Trusts and other organisations) to manage the commercials.
• Responsible for understanding NHS Contracting and interpreting them to ensure accuracy of financial management.

What youll bring to the role:

• ACA/CIMA/ACCA Qualified
• Experience in commercial finance and revenue management
• Proven experience supporting commercial and contract teams
• Strong commercial acumen
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders
• Excellent business partnering ability
• Understanding of pricing revenue recognition and commercial contracts
• Attention to detail
• Comfortable working in a fast paced change oriented environment
• Advanced Excel

Why work for us

• 25 days holidays plus bank holidays
• Buy and sell annual leave scheme
• Refer a friend scheme
• Company pension
• Company sick pay scheme
• Life assurance scheme
• Bluelight Card- 100s of discount and cashback options
• Performance review with a training and development plan
• Employee discounts portal
• Gym membership
• Cycle to work scheme
• Tech scheme

Since 2012 CHEC has been working with the NHS to increase patient choice and provide better access to exceptional timely locally-based ophthalmology and gastroenterology care free at the point of care.

CHEC has a nationwide portfolio of community hospitals and clinics operating in a unique hub-and-spoke model. We are proud to have a role alongside colleagues in the NHS offering patients the choice of access to essential procedures and help achieve the best possible clinical outcomes. We continue to expand our community-based offering of vital healthcare to patients across England including ENT (Ear Nose and Throat) and Dermatology services.

CHEC is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees to share this commitment this includes being aware of and adhering to all CHEC Safeguarding policies. Recruitment checks are undertaken in accordance with the NHS Employment Check Standards and successful applicants may be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).