The Commercial Finance Manager will provide financial insight and support to drive strategic decision-making within the organisation. This role is essential in ensuring accurate financial planning and analysis to optimise performance within the financial services industry.
Client Details
We are seeking a commercially minded finance leader to manage a team of analysts and drive portfolio profitability across the business. This role is responsible for developing financial initiatives, enhancing reporting and governance, and supporting post-acquisition integration activities. The successful candidate will work closely with senior stakeholders across Finance, Commercial, FP&A and operational teams to deliver improved financial performance and informed decision-making.
A key part of the role is to build and develop a high-performing analytical team, ensuring consistent standards, strong business partnering, and removal of single-point dependencies through cross‑training and process improvement.
Description
Deliver an Outstanding Customer Experience
- Deliver and demonstrate good customer outcomes across all interactions.
- Role‑model organisational values and embed a strong Customer‑First culture within the team.
- Promote and adhere to corporate governance standards, ensuring effective processes and a controlled working environment that minimises risk.
Team Leadership & Operational Delivery
- Direct, prioritise and manage the workload of Analysts to ensure key deadlines for internal and external stakeholders are consistently achieved.
- Foster a customer‑focused mindset within the Finance function, developing a class‑leading service that meets business needs.
- Instil a proactive, high‑performance culture that ensures deliverables are accurate, timely and value‑adding, while removing single‑person dependencies through cross‑training.
- Guide the team through data challenges, establishing effective ways of working and driving a consistent one version of the truth approach.
- Provide commercial support for non‑standard pricing, early terminations and other ad‑hoc commercial requirements.
Driving Improved Profitability
- Lead the team in designing, developing and implementing frameworks for portfolio management, profit‑share, pooled mileage and maintenance profitability.
- Drive profitability improvements, reduce risk and ensure all balance sheet reconciliations are robust and compliant.
- Review early termination and contract extension processes to minimise financial risk and ensure associated administrative costs are appropriately covered.
- Identify opportunities to enhance pricing approaches and apply best‑practice methodologies across all relevant pricing activities.
- Own deep‑drive investigations into profitability drivers, working collaboratively with operational and pricing teams to compare actual contract costs to assumptions and deliver clear, actionable insights.
Customer Retention & Portfolio Quality
- Ensure departmental structures, processes, controls and business continuity plans are in place to support delivery of KPIs, taking action where required.
- Maximise end‑of‑contract revenue streams including excess mileage, early terminations and profit‑share arrangements.
- Embed a right‑first‑time mindset within the team to deliver accurate, high‑quality outputs for both internal and external stakeholders.
- Undertake any additional duties as required in line with business needs.
Profile
- Fully qualified accountant (e.g., ACA / ACCA / CIMA)
- Proven team management or leadership experience, ideally managing analysts or a small finance team
- Strong FP&A or commercial finance background, with experience in modelling, forecasting, and profitability analysis
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders
- Commercially minded, ideally with experience partnering with Sales or Commercial teams to support pricing, portfolio, or customer‑driven decisions
Job Offer
- Salary up to £73,000
- Car allowance or cash alternative included as part of the package
- 20% annual bonus based on performance
- Competitive pension scheme
- 25+ days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- Strong opportunities for progression within a growing finance function
- 50% working from home and 50% in the office.
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