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Finance Manager – Cost of Sales (COS)

Location: Commutable distance to Winchester / London. Arqiva offer a hybrid working model whereby site visits tend to be more meeting dependent

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Total Package

• Up to £68k base salary
• 10% bonus
• 6% pension contribution
• Private Medical
• 25 days annual leave
• Access to our comprehensive flexible benefits including discounts on big brands, wellness and employee assistance programmes, gymflex, buy and sell annual leave, travel and dental insurance
• Work. Life. Smarter. Our commitment to a flexible and hybrid working culture

Finance Business partnering our Operational and Technology teams to ensure we optimise our cost base. Special emphasis on creating insight to identify and drive cost improvement opportunities - enabling the successful implementation of Arqiva's growth strategy

The role

•Financial Ownership of Cost of Sales (c£300m), included Shared Costs and Third Party – providing detailed and actionable insight by product and cross-Arqiva cost categories with a view to optimising our costs

•Driving to understand our cost drivers in detail to drive down our unit costs on our Growth products in order to maximise profitability / competitiveness

•Challenge the status quo by driving improvements across all areas of the business, championing change and installing a continuous improvement mentality in terms of insight and cost optimisation

•Own the monthly results and sign off with the management accounts team; producing clear analysis on issues, opportunities and FY out turns, etc. for key stakeholders, including Commercial Finance teams

•Create, Monitor and Challenge performance KPIs against planned targets / forecast. Ensuring Exco and the business understand the dependency of KPIs and are held to account.

•Own the Long Term Plan, budget and forecast for COS - challenging the directors to maximise the appropriate cash outcomes

•Robustly challenging our business partners to secure the right investment decisions relating to major multi-year investment decisions as part of Cost Investment reviews. Ensuring all information is clearly presented and the financials challenged appropriately

•Pro-active contribution to team well-being and improvement and demonstrating a willingness to share knowledge and best practice

•Deputising for HOF – Operations & COS

The person

• Qualified accountant or similar finance degree

• Comprehensive experience of analysing and explaining data to non-finance colleagues

•Extensive knowledge and use of Microsoft Excel and other office product, business analytical tools and report writing capabilities

• Experience of managing a finance team and matrix environment

• Experience of working as business partner into Exec Director level

Why join Arqiva? We are the undisputed leader in UK TV and radio broadcast and the UK’s leading Smart utilities platform. This means we have a strong heritage and foundation for future growth for you to grow your career with us.

Our journey is to transition global media distribution to cloud solutions, where we aim to double our revenue and continue to grow by being an innovator of scalable solutions for new connectivity sectors. We have opportunities in new technology applications and products, you will have opportunities to learn and develop with us.

Your wellbeing…. Our wellbeing mission is to help our people to be the best version of themselves at work and still have the time and energy to live a full life outside of work.

Our focus for 2024 is to Win, Grow, Go Faster – find out more, contact us and apply!