Commercial Lead

This role is a finance lead responsible for business partnering, driving strategic and financial outcomes for their respective business lines and branches. This business line/branch leadership role will be instrumental in developing and implementing key strategic and transformational initiatives to accelerate business performance across Motion’s business lines.

**Position Purpose**
- ** Managing in deliver of results**: Partner in delivering strategic and P&L performance for the state operations through partnering with leadership teams, state managers, operational and financial stakeholders
- ** Actionable insights reporting**: Building an advanced analytical decision support capability to support both strategic and tactical decisions
- ** Assist in Strategy and transformation**: Partnering in solving business challenges through effective problem-solving, identifying opportunities and translating recommendations into execution plans
- ** Partner in bringing clarity across budgeting and forecasting**:Partner in building and owning the planning and forecasting framework (monthly, quarterly and annual) across the state and business lines and highlighting the impacts from headwinds and tailwinds
- ** Managing and navigating ambiguity**: Gather information and context from stakeholders, simplify the insights, provide accurate business performance updates and develop recommendations to overcome market and business volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity
- ** Deliver value**: Continuously evaluate opportunities for enhancement of systems (PowerBI, TM1, Phocas) and process capabilities to maximise effectiveness and ensure seamless accurate reporting rhythm
- ** Decision Support**: Manage ongoing analytics requirements for Leadership teams, General Manager, Head of Commercial Finance and Senior Managers in
- Scenario planning and analysis - predictive modelling to understand the business impacts
- Developing business cases for capital and operational investments
- Portfolio and network optimization across the states
- Long range planning and expansion opportunities for the respective state / business line operations
- Benefits / initiative tracking and pipeline reporting
- ** Corporate development and growth**:Partner with leadership and M&A team to execute transactions and manage post integration of the acquired businesses
- ** Empower non-finance stakeholders**: Build strong network with the sales and operational teams, empower and improve financial capability among non-finance members to drive ownership
- Coaching and supporting the wider commercial and Finance team

**Key Skills and Capabilities**
- Commercial / Analytical background - experience handling and analysing complex, high volume data with great attention to detail.
- The ability to think beyond numbers and combine data with strategy and financial insights.
- Be able to distil information creatively and visually so that it is digestible to both finance and non-finance partners.
- Self-motivated, results oriented with the ability to perform under pressure in a changing business environment with the willingness to get their hands dirty.
- Experience in identifying and implementing process improvement initiatives to improve insights reporting and drive business performance.
- Proven modelling and excel skills, experience with other systems such as PowerBI, TM1, etc, would be beneficial.
- Strong business partnering skills.

**Health & Safety**:

- Consistently and proactively participate in Health and Safety in the workplace
- Know and understand the Company’s Health and Safety policies and adhere to them at all times
- Actively participate in any Health and Safety meetings, investigations, initiatives or programmes as requested
- Ensure you are personally responsible for your own Health and Safety and others with whom you work
- Ensure your team or any staff under your supervision adhere to all Health and Safety policies and principles
- Identify and contribute to Health and Safety improvements
- Wear and maintain your PPE at all necessary/appropriate times, report any issues with your PPE immediately
- Participate in Health and Safety training and hazard identification, assessment and control of workplace hazards
- Undertake duties in a safe manner
- Reports incidents, accidents and near misses immediately when it is possible or as soon as possible
- Commitment to caring for our environment and work collaboratively with all stakeholders: people, customers, suppliers and the wider community to do this

**Training & Development**:

- Attend any training and development as directed
- Provide on the job training, coaching and mentoring as appropriate to internal people as required
- Excellent engagement skills with a proven ability to build collaborative relationships with internal and external customers

**Professional Experience**:

- Commercial professional, with analytical, budgeting and forecasting experience
- Exceptional business partn