Motability Operations
Commercial Accountant (12-month FTC/Secondment)
Job Location
Bristol, United Kingdom
Job Description
Description
Motability Operations are currently recruiting for a Commercial Accountant to join our team in Bristol on a full-time, 12-month FTC basis. This newly created role is an exciting chance to bring broad commercial and management accounting experience to the team.
You will help to design and deliver financial support and services on core elements of our customer and product journey. (In Life Customer Services, Vehicle Remarketing and Solutions, Specialised Vehicles), including:
You will ensure that:
We are adapting to increasing demands for faster, more frequent and detailed financial reporting. Therefore, the team are becoming ever more data and analytics driven so you will be immersed in an environment of continuous improvement and change. In support of this, you will be proactive in reviewing ways of working, proposing improvements and applying changes to processes. You will have the chance to engage with experts across multiple areas of MO that cross different industries and disciplines.
Qualifications
You have a strong track record in commercial finance, management accounting and partnering activities and are experienced in working with commercial agreement 'red threads' across end-to-end financial processes. You can translate commercial agreements (including complex risk/reward models) into financial models and business cases.
You are highly competent at analysing and reporting (micro and macro levels) financial results and outlooks based on commercial agreements and operating metrics (KPIs, trends, benchmarks, baselines et al) and data.
You have formidable analytical and mathematical skills with a passion for problem solving and are adept at fact checking commercial and operational data and information against financial results to pinpoint cause and effect and provide 'the story' behind the numbers.
You are self-motivated, proactive and innovative, with the ability to work autonomously towards tight deadlines and prioritise workloads, handling multiple responsibilities simultaneously without compromising accuracy.
You successfully build enduring relationships across all levels and departments of the business and have a successful track record of working with commercial and operations teams.
You pay excellent attention to detail and have a strong working knowledge of key controls, data risk management and transactional services processes and controls.
You accurately calculate and confidently present complex financial information, insights and recommendations in a concise and understandable way to a wide range of stakeholders. You have experience of working with BI tools and defining statements of requirements for BI teams.
You are adaptable to changes in the business environment and in translating changing circumstances and strategies into financial information. You are motivated to continually evolve and improve processes and outputs.
Minimum criteria:
Benefits
Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 700,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:
We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on-site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers. It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2-days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.
As a Motability Operations team member, you can expect:
As well as financial benefits, our staff's health and well-being are very important to us, so we also offer:
We also understand that not everyone is the same so offer several voluntary benefits that you can select outside the core package, these include;
At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they're rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.
We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.
Please note, Motability Operations reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend that you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.
Location: Bristol, GB
Posted Date: 11/28/2024
Motability Operations are currently recruiting for a Commercial Accountant to join our team in Bristol on a full-time, 12-month FTC basis. This newly created role is an exciting chance to bring broad commercial and management accounting experience to the team.
You will help to design and deliver financial support and services on core elements of our customer and product journey. (In Life Customer Services, Vehicle Remarketing and Solutions, Specialised Vehicles), including:
- monthly financial performance reporting and review
- planning (budgeting, forecasting)
- analysis and modelling of commercial agreements
- performance analytics using BI (or as appropriate)
- partnering for business owners/budget holders & business cases
- ad hoc analysis for tactical and strategic workstreams
You will ensure that:
- costs are correctly and fully accounted for in the period
- robust financial data is produced for control and decision making; providing support in understanding and actioning
- cause and effect through commercial agreements and operational activity/decisions to financial results is verified and understood by owners. This will then be reflected in actuals, outlooks, modelling and business cases
- end-to-end financial processes are intact and robust (key controls are satisfied incl. invoice verification and related reconciliations, data governance and control, carrying values in GLs verified, completeness of financial reporting)
- red threads exist through commercial rates, operating activities, transactional services, monthly TB and P&L, reporting, analysis, forecasting, modelling and business cases
We are adapting to increasing demands for faster, more frequent and detailed financial reporting. Therefore, the team are becoming ever more data and analytics driven so you will be immersed in an environment of continuous improvement and change. In support of this, you will be proactive in reviewing ways of working, proposing improvements and applying changes to processes. You will have the chance to engage with experts across multiple areas of MO that cross different industries and disciplines.
Qualifications
You have a strong track record in commercial finance, management accounting and partnering activities and are experienced in working with commercial agreement 'red threads' across end-to-end financial processes. You can translate commercial agreements (including complex risk/reward models) into financial models and business cases.
You are highly competent at analysing and reporting (micro and macro levels) financial results and outlooks based on commercial agreements and operating metrics (KPIs, trends, benchmarks, baselines et al) and data.
You have formidable analytical and mathematical skills with a passion for problem solving and are adept at fact checking commercial and operational data and information against financial results to pinpoint cause and effect and provide 'the story' behind the numbers.
You are self-motivated, proactive and innovative, with the ability to work autonomously towards tight deadlines and prioritise workloads, handling multiple responsibilities simultaneously without compromising accuracy.
You successfully build enduring relationships across all levels and departments of the business and have a successful track record of working with commercial and operations teams.
You pay excellent attention to detail and have a strong working knowledge of key controls, data risk management and transactional services processes and controls.
You accurately calculate and confidently present complex financial information, insights and recommendations in a concise and understandable way to a wide range of stakeholders. You have experience of working with BI tools and defining statements of requirements for BI teams.
You are adaptable to changes in the business environment and in translating changing circumstances and strategies into financial information. You are motivated to continually evolve and improve processes and outputs.
Minimum criteria:
- Qualified Accountant
- Extensive experience with a range of finance and BI apps
- Advanced excel
Benefits
Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 700,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:
- We find solutions
- We drive change
- We care
We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on-site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers. It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2-days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.
As a Motability Operations team member, you can expect:
- An annual discretionary bonus
- 15% non-contributory pension (9% non-contributory pension during probation period)
- Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help
- Employee Discount Scheme with a huge number of retailers and an app to save on the go
- Discounted Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- Access to the Cycle to Work Scheme (we have showers, changing rooms and secure bike sheds on site)
As well as financial benefits, our staff's health and well-being are very important to us, so we also offer:
- 28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days
- Funded Private Medical Insurance cover
- Critical illness insurance
- Free access to healthcare apps, such as Peppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP
- Funded health screening for over 50s
- 1 day per year to volunteer - Staff can support a local charity or do a sponsored event whilst being paid for it
- Access to our fully accessible company allotment - Where we grow our own produce for local charitable organisations
- Access to Prayer room and quiet spaces whilst working in the office
We also understand that not everyone is the same so offer several voluntary benefits that you can select outside the core package, these include;
- Dental Insurance
- Health and cancer screenings for you and your partner
- Discounted gym memberships
- Charitable giving
At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they're rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.
We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.
Please note, Motability Operations reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend that you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.
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Location: Bristol, GB
Posted Date: 11/28/2024
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