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.
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‑dive 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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