Senior Commercial Finance Manager

Job Introduction

We’re looking for a Senior Commercial Finance Manager to join our UK&I Centre of Excellence.

You will represent Sodexo as part of the bidding team in leading client facing meetings with financial and/or commercial considerations. You will be involved in the financial modelling of all new business and current contract extensions, ensuring that tender responses are competitive, aligned to customer needs and commercially sound for Sodexo.

Whilst working alongside the Healthcare’s Business Development Director and the Business Improvement Team you will take the lead on tracking of business improvement activities. Identifying commercial opportunities and risks associated with all tendering and business improvement activities and controlling contractual negotiations, together with legal representation up to the point of signature of new contracts.

Interviews will be conducted while this role is live. Sodexo reserves the right to close this advert early if a suitable candidate is found.

Role Responsibility

• Support the business development team to deliver growth and offer market leading solutions to current and prospective clients.
• Provide commercial and financial input and leadership to the Business Development Team
•  The Commercial Finance Manager to ensure:
  • the commercial and financial solutions are aligned;
  • the financial information on tender submissions is presented in an optimised commercial and strategic manner;
  • that the pricing of tenders are accurate, robust and are tested against current benchmarks;
  • internal financial sign-off meetings are coordinated and accurately reflect the commercial solution

• Take the lead role in the development of GHIC (Global Healthcare investment committee) and GIC (Group investment committee) papers whenever required
• Collaborate with operational colleagues and other members of the Commercial department during the mobilisation of successful tenders to ensure that all commercial and contractual matters are understood
• Present commercial options to the bidding team, Commercial Director and potentially other members of the Healthcare Executive so that informed decisions can be made on potential issues or solutions
• Work closely with Healthcare’s legal representatives to ensure that risks are caveated and that the contractual Schedules are appropriate and workable, including (inter alia) payment mechanisms, performance monitoring regimes, compensation on termination
• Collaborate with other Commercial Managers within the Commercial Department to ensure that grey areas of responsibility are being effectively covered.  Possibilities include new services into existing contracts and market test avoidance proposals
• Lead on the business improvement financial work stream
• Build and maintain excellent relationships with key internal and external stakeholders
• Seek and co-ordinate input where necessary from other areas of the business

The Ideal Candidate

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with relevant PQE
• Experience in analysing new business opportunities and working with incomplete data
• Excellent numerical and financial modelling skills
• A good understanding of how contracts work
• Able to liaise effectively with non-finance colleagues, sharing ideas and information
• Experience of collaborative working within a joint hard and soft FM environment
• Able to work independently, flexibly and professionally building relationships with key stakeholders
• Able to communicate effectively with colleagues and senior managers / directors
• Experience of working with budgets and financial targets

Package Description

Salary - Upto £80,000 depending on experience plus bonus, car allowance and flexible benefit fund

As part of our commitment to improving the quality of life for our employees, Sodexo offers a Flexible Benefits Scheme, allowing you to tailor a reward package to suit your needs:

• Dental insurance
• Critical illness cover (for yourself and your partner)
• Kids Pass (offering a range of discounts on family friendly attractions)
• Travel insurance
• Technology
• Gourmet Society membership
• Tastecard
• Will writing
• Wine offer
• GymFlex
• Holiday trading

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process