Commercial Finance Analyst

Sewell Wallis is partnering with a large South Yorkshire manufacturing business based in Sheffield, in their search for a Commercial Finance Analyst. As the Commercial Finance Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in supporting both senior stakeholders and the wider business to deliver its strategic objectives and optimise business performance. Reporting directly to the Head of Finance, you will be responsible for providing valuable financial insights across the entire business ecosystem, supplying accurate and insightful operational, financial and commercial data, analysis and reporting of the company product portfolio across all business levels and departments. This role is critical to supporting key business decisions, strategy and objectives, whilst maintaining a collaborative and results driven environment. What will you be doing? Working closely with the operational and commercial teams to understand full margin elements of the company product portfolio, including: Regular analysis and reporting of raw material costs, including forecasting of elementals and foreign exchange and potential hedging requirementsUnderstanding of full operational process of company product portfolio, incorporating standard costing into product cost and pricing mechanismsDaily review, analysis and informative reporting of operational costs in line with budget/forecast, including assessment of manufacturing variances such as mix/yield/price/quantity, promoting cost awareness with insight to ..... full job details .....