Commercial Finance Bid Specialist (3 month FTC)

The Commercial Finance Bid Specialist role can be remote with occasional travel to London reporting to the Sector Finance Business Partner and Client Partner / Bid Management. What you'll be doing : This role is expected to provide support, analysis and pricing to the bid team to ensure the best possible outcomes, working both independently and collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary group of experts from within the business. You will be responsible for :

• Ownership and construction of financial bid models as required (including existing company modelling tools), ensuring correct treatment for revenue recognition (IFRS15) and costs incurred, and adequate contingency provisions.
• Provide reporting (including internal governance reporting requirements), analysis (including multiple scenarios), assessment and recommendations to the bid team and wider business as required.
• Ability to operate under pressure of deadline driven sales environment.
• On time and accurate completion of finance briefing for appropriate sign off having applied best practices.
• Attend governance calls, ensuring bids have gone through the required governance and compliance and that they are costed and priced accurately.
Liaise with operational finance team to comply with audit and implement recommendations.
• Work with the bid team and wider business in all aspects of providing financial pricing and costing, reporting and modelling support for all areas of the client bid.
• Managing inputs from other members of the bid team (Service Lines, HR etc).Ensure accurate completion of customer pricing schedules.
• Be willing to voice your view and look at the art of the possible .
• Ad-hoc tasks / other projects as required., We offer a range of tailored benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. Our Learning and Development team ensure that there are continuous growth and development opportunities for our people.
  
  Ideally you will be a qualified accountant (CIMA / ACCA qualified or an equivalent professional affiliation) with post qualified experience, however qualified by experience candidates can be considered.
• The successful candidate must have IT services industry experience.
• The successful candidate must have experience of complex pricing and costing for large value, large scale and multi-year infrastructure client bidding.
• Extensive experience of unit-based pricing is essential, alongside thorough knowledge of services commercial models (fixed price, time & materials, support & infrastructure services) as well as experience of client bid processes.
• Require experience of working in numerous bid teams alongside working with and managing stakeholders, presenting recommendations in an influential manner, needing to communicate persuasively and articulately and can explain complex concepts to non-financial persons.
• Advanced user of Excel, along with use of standard M365 suite and Teams
• Having strong organisational, planning, prioritisation and presentation skills is key whilst being flexible to handle peaks in workload.
• A proven track record of effectively influencing senior stakeholders from both an internal (company strategic priorities) and external perspective.
• The ability to work as part of a team in a working environment where there can be frequent change, uncertainty and ambiguity.
• Candidate must be immediately available.
  
  You'll be joining the 6th largest IT Service Provider, present in more than 50 countries. From our roots in Japan, NTT DATA's mission is to facilitate business change and technology transformation across many industries for a better future for our business, people and community.
Some of the projects we have supported include the digitising of The Open golf tournament and applying Formula 1 technology to support medical staff at University Hospitals Leicester. Everything we do is underpinned by our core values of 'Clients First', 'Teamwork' and 'Foresight' and we achieve these by putting people first., We're a business with a global reach that empowers local teams, and we undertake hugely exciting work that is genuinely changing the world. Our advanced portfolio of consulting, applications, business process, cloud, and infrastructure services will allow you to achieve great things by working with brilliant colleagues, and clients, on exciting projects. Our inclusive work environment prioritises mutual respect, accountability, and continuous learning for all our people. This approach fosters collaboration, well-being, growth, and agility, leading to a more diverse, innovative, and competitive organisation. We are also proud to share that we have a range of Inclusion Networks such as : the Women's Business Network, Cultural and Ethnicity Network, LGBTQ+ & Allies Network, Neurodiversity Network and the Parent Network.