Senior Commercial Financial Analyst

SENIOR COMMERCIAL FINANCIAL ANALYST / MANCHESTER / HYBRID/ £60,000-£70,000 PLUS BENEFITS

About Team / Role

WEX is an innovative payments and technology company looking to forge the way in a rapidly changing environment, with a goal to simplify the business of doing business for our customers, freeing them to spend more time, with less worry, on the things they love. We are on a journey to build consistent world class user experience across our products and services and leverage customer driven innovative across all of our strategic initiatives.

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Commercial Financial Analyst to join our expanding team in our Manchester City Centre office, this integral role will play a key role in collaborating with internal stakeholders and teams across the business inside and outside of the UK to ensure the business achieves its goals.

What’s on offer?

• Highly competitive salary between £60,000-£70,000 (dependant on experience)
• Annual company bonus
• 40 hour week – Monday to Friday
• Hybrid working (1-2 days per week in our Manchester offices)
• Industry leading pension scheme
• Private Medical
• 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays – with the opportunity to purchase additional holidays
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Gym Flex membership
• Discounts & perks platform
• Employee wellbeing

How you'll make an impact

• Reporting to the Head of FP&A for International Payments, you will act as a commercial business partner to the International Payments team, to enable and support all financial planning and decision making across the team to help them achieve their financial targets.
• You will ensure revenue and profitability is accurately forecast and reported, working with the teams to identify, track and manage risks and opportunities to Budgets and Forecasts.
• Accountable for coordination and translation of growth initiatives
• Recommending cost reduction strategies and impact this may have
• Providing informative commercial analysis and insight to leadership teams supporting the business and Corporate KPI’s that drive revenue and profitability- including identifying customer segmentations.
• Provide business casing and investment appraisal support e.g. Capital Planning Process (CPP) i.e. Account profitability
• Pricing and Deal modelling, including impact on Balance and ensuring deals are negotiated above or at shareholder return thresholds.
• Work closely with the leadership teams to formulate the financial business plans
• Work with subject matter experts in the business on complex pieces of analysis across the business
• Work directly with management to develop sales commission plans for International payments

Experience/Key Competencies:

• A newly qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or global equivalent) with PQE working in day-to-day financial planning and analysis in a global company environment, ideally from a Fintech background.
• Recent experience working in the Planning function within financial services industries preferred.
• Solid commercial acumen including supporting pricing and developing business cases for investments.
• Strong experience of identifying and understanding customer segmentations to drive decision making and profitability.
• Experience of developing and maintaining financial planning and reporting models in Planning Analytics or other similar finance BI tool e.g. Anaplan, UI Path, Alteryx 
• Advanced Excel
• A high level of attention to detail
• Strong presentation skills
• Evidence of strong business partnering with the ability to influence decision makers
• The right level of judgment, drive and influence to successfully communicate key messages and influence decision makers

• A self-starter with strong ambition to grow and develop, demonstrated by seeking out opportunities for advancement and assisting others as needed
• Ability to prioritise competing demands across a wide spectrum of activity
• Proactive hands on approach and keen to make a difference
• Flexibility – displays a creative and flexible approach to meet the changing circumstances of a growing business
• Attention to detail to ensure the accuracy of reporting
• Energy, commitment and a desire to work in a dynamic team environment

What’s next?

If you feel that you have the necessary skills to be our new Senior Commercial Financial Analyst then please APPLY TODAY for immediate consideration.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/ belief, sexual orientation, or age

Due to the volume of applications received, unfortunately it is not possible to respond to each one individually, applicants that are shortlisted will be contacted within one week of applications.

We do not accept speculative agency CVs. Any CV received by WEX will be treated as a gift and will not be eligible for an agency fee. PSL agencies should only send CVs if authorised to do so by the Talent Acquisition team.