Role Overview
The role will play a key part in driving the growth of Safetykleen UK&I reporting to the Head of FP&A and supporting the Business Development Director and Commercial Director with commercial sales and marketing effectiveness insights, opportunities and plans to deliver the growth targets.
You will become a trusted partner to the leadership team as well as integrate into the commercial teams to provide insight and commercial challenge to drive forward go-to-market business performance with a customer first focus.
This is a great opportunity for a driven, talented and ambitious individual to progress their commercial finance career in a fast paced, successful and growing private equity business.
Key Responsibilities
- GTM Budgeting & Forecasting : Manage UK&I sales budgets, including materials, headcount, and marketing costs.
- P&L Management : Identify risks and opportunities, providing actionable plans to enhance sales and marketing KPIs.
- Business Partnering : Collaborate with Business Development and Commercial Directors to ensure targets are met and profitability optimised.
- Profitability Analysis : Assess new placements to enhance customer satisfaction & sales.
- Marketing Effectiveness : Analyse marketing efforts to inform inbound lead generation investments for growth.
- Pricing Strategy : Conduct pricing analysis for existing and new customers, maintaining updated price lists.
- Client Profitability Focus : Prioritise decisions based on client-level profitability to boost retention.
- Insight Packs & Presentations : Produce monthly reports and presentations to inform leadership.
- Reporting Tools : Develop and automate dashboards for real-time KPI analysis, supporting data-driven decisions.
Benefits:
- £65,000 Annual Salary.
- Annual Bonus.
- 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays.
- 5% Contributory Pension scheme.
- Family Life assurance of 3 times life cover salary.
- Private healthcare scheme from day 1.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
- Corporate discount scheme focussed on your wellbeing, including discounted Virgin Active Gym membership.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- We provide support and access to a range of internal and external courses to help and progress your career with Safetykleen.
- Plus more..
Baseline Experience & Qualifications
- 2-4 years PQE (ACA/CIMA/ACCA).
- Fast paced industry experience such as Retail, FMCG or B2B Services in a high growth environment.
- Previous experience in FP&A and or Business Partnering essential.
Baseline Competencies
- Analytical and Data-driven: We are a data and insights-driven organisation, and base decisions and priorities for improvements on proven tests and results. Being able to translate data into analysis into insights into actions is key for success in this role.
- Curiosity: You must be curious to search for connections that turn into insights to support the commercial leadership team. You must be keen ask the question “why” in order to find underlying trends and causes.
- Collaboration and teamwork: We work closely across our business, so the ability to collaborate and engage successfully with other UK&I functions, Group and other markets is key.
- Communication: You have the ability to structure thoughts and presentations in a way that resonates with local audiences, and to drive adoption of your ideas towards outcomes.
- Willingness to learn: We believe strongly that personal growth and development drives employee engagement, and therefore our performance as a team; a willingness to learn and adapt is a key enabler of your success at Safetykleen.
- Technically proficient: Advanced excel skills required, strong PowerPoint presentation skills and able to quickly pick up Microsoft CRM. Power BI experience a plus, but the ability to build visualisations and dashboards in collaboration with the Data team is required. Training will be available in this area, but an aptitude to drive use of technology to provide standard reports in the role is essential.
Safetykleen
Safetykleen is the leading provider of Parts Cleaning, Waste Collection and Environmental Advisory services to businesses. Our operations encompass 14 countries. Safetykleen employs over 2,000 people across 92 branches and delivers over 1 million services per year. Our headquarters are based in London, and we are backed by Apax Partners, a leading Private Equity firm.
A strong, flat and inclusive culture will provide the platform for you to make a real difference to the commercial teams in Safetykleen UK&I and drive the effectiveness of the FP&A and business partnering Finance team forward.
