The Vacancy
We have an exciting opportunity for a Finance Director, Commercial to provide high-quality financial planning and analysis which enables stakeholders to make strategic decisions that will maximise future enterprise value.
The role involves collaborating with business leaders to understand and align strategies with overall business goals and financial objectives, conducting in-depth financial analysis to support decision-making, completing key financial planning processes, ensuring suitable cost control measures are in place, and supporting the integration of M&A targets.
Key Responsibilities
1. Collaborate with business leaders, notably the Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Marketing Officer and their leadership teams to understand and align strategies with overall business goals and financial objectives. Functional coverage includes the sales, marketing, customer success and renewals teams.
2. Conduct in-depth financial analysis to support decision-making, provide insight into business performance, trends, risks, and opportunities, and present findings in a clear and actionable manner to senior non-financial stakeholders.
3. Support the Commercial team with build and delivery of Value Creation Plans (VCPs) in conjunction with Hg operational excellence teams.
4. Accountable for the New Orders consolidation from source data - ensuring timely and accurate reporting. Developing recognition criteria and ensuring their consistent application.
5. Lead and manage New Orders forecasting, budgeting, and actuals.
6. Together with sales leadership design and cost commission policies (both annual and short term incentives) designed to motivate sales target delivery at both individual and managerial levels. Manage quota and budget/plan quota coverage and including headcount tracking. Accountable for calculating sales team commissions in line with agreed policy.
7. Overall control and forecasting of sales and marketing budgets.
8. Assist in creating and discharge of responsibilities under the sales discount Levels of Authority (LoA) to control discounting and ensure financial return on new business.
9. Work with senior leaders to ensure investments and other initiatives deliver on time and in full to achieve IRIS's growth and cost targets.
10. Develop and deliver the reporting for the commercial KPI framework, including leads, pipeline, orders, team performance, individual metrics, SaaS metrics and marketing return measures. Ensure that the commercial finance owned reporting in Power BI and Excel is maintained and accurate.
11. Support the implementation of new software tools, notably a new central FP&A tools for the group.
12. Support the preparation of key investor reporting (for example the monthly Board pack). Respond to ad hoc investor queries as required.
13. Lead and mentor the team of four, enabling them to be efficient and to ensure that IRIS develops its next generation of talented professionals.
14. Support the group to achieve a consistent approach to geographical expansion, notably work with the America's finance team to ensure financial reporting processes and approach are aligned.
Experience and Knowledge
1. Accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or similar)
2. Strategic orientation, and the ability to operate at the highest level within the organisation.
3. Advanced Excel and experience in using complex financial modelling.
4. Experience in using data visualisation/reporting tools such as Tableau or Power BI.
5. A proven track record of working in a senior finance position, ideally within technology or growth industry.
6. Experience of working in a private equity-backed environment, previous involvement in an exit process beneficial.
7. Deep understanding of financial modelling, scenario planning, forecasting, budgeting, and consolidation.
8. Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate complex information to both financial and non-financial stakeholders.
Please note:
We occasionally close vacancies early in the event that we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore we recommend you apply as soon as possible.
About IRIS
As one of the UK's largest privately held software companies, IRIS Software Group exists to simplify the lives of businesses, schools and organisations.
IRIS provides software solutions and services that substantially enhance operational compliance, efficiency and accuracy, empowering the users of our technology to look forward with certainty and confidence.
Over 4 million parents use our software to connect with their child's school, 18% of UK employees are paid via an IRIS payroll solution, 50,000 SMEs use IRIS cloud bookkeeping and 21,000 firms rely on us for legislative compliance.
Our operational software is the invisible but essential beating heart of our customers' businesses, supporting them in a range of objectives, from maintaining legislative compliance to boosting engagement with stakeholders and enhancing productivity.
It's vital these mission-critical functions work first time, every time.
That's why IRIS helps businesses run the tough stuff, stay compliant and get operational tasks done right first time, every time - so they can focus on productivity and growth.
IRIS is a company built on hiring the best people; our people are our greatest assets.
They enable us to be the innovative, market-leading, and high-performing company that we are today.
We're delighted to be certified as a Great Place to Work and one of the UK's Best Workplaces for Women.
These accolades confirm that our employees have a consistently positive experience at IRIS, with the certifications considering employee wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, trust in management, effective communication and recognition/reward.
IRIS is committed to engaging, rewarding and empowering our employees, and this is central to what we do.
This is why we work to create an environment where employees feel like they are part of a team.
Why work for IRIS?
The Benefits
Generous holiday allowance
Charity / volunteering days
Income protection insurance
Life assurance
Employee Assistance Program
Private healthcare
Enhanced maternity pay
Additional discount schemes
Cycle to work scheme
Developing your career
We believe in creating a culture of engagement and reward to develop your potential and offer long-term career success. We do this by:
Leading
Supporting our managers to be great leaders, providing inspirational management resources and offering dedicated management development training.
Excelling
Rewarding individual excellence through dedicated initiatives and Employee Awards for demonstrating our values.
Growing
Offering regular training and development programmes tailored to each employee's development needs and providing a commitment to a 'learning culture' which shares knowledge, best practice and our long-standing expertise between employees.
Listening
We're committed to a culture of continuous improvement and listen to our employees via regular feedback sessions and employee engagement surveys.
Sharing
Our employees love the colleagues they work with. We promote a positive environment where our people feel comfortable, make friends and support each other.
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