VodafoneThree – Commercial Finance Manager – Smarty

Working hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week – Monday to Friday

Job Overview

This role sits at the centre of the SMARTY finance team, acting as the primary commercial finance partner to the brand. You will take full ownership of financial performance, leading planning, reporting, and insight to support trading and strategic decision-making. Combining strong analytical capability with commercial acumen, you will influence performance through clear storytelling, robust challenge, and a deep understanding of value drivers, helping to optimise growth and profitability.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the end‑to‑end P&L for SMARTY, including revenue, costs, and unit economics, with clear accountability for performance delivery.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long‑range planning processes, ensuring robust financial outlooks aligned to commercial strategy.
• Own month‑end performance reporting, delivering clear variance analysis, insight, and commentary on key drivers of performance.
• Proactively identify, track, and manage Risks & Opportunities (R&O), working closely with stakeholders to maximise opportunities and mitigate risks.
• Deliver high‑quality performance insight and storytelling, translating financial data into clear, actionable recommendations for stakeholders.
• Act as a key finance partner to commercial and trading teams, influencing performance, strategy, and decision‑making.
• Lead on business casing, investment appraisal, and post‑investment reviews, ensuring strong financial returns and robust challenge of assumptions.
• Drive discussions on pricing, trading performance, and unit economics optimisation to support value creation.
• Provide insight into key value drivers, supporting optimisation of customer, revenue, and cost performance.
• Partner with FP&A and BI teams to enhance reporting, improve data visibility, and develop new insights.
• Support OpEx management and cost control, ensuring transparency and financial discipline across the business.
• Build strong, trusted relationships across finance and commercial teams to drive alignment and performance outcomes.
• Deliver ad‑hoc analysis and support strategic initiatives in a fast‑paced, evolving environment.

Qualifications

• A qualified finance professional (ACCA, CIMA or ACA) with strong commercial acumen and experience driving business performance in a fast‑paced environment.
• Highly analytical, with advanced financial modelling capability and the ability to distil complex data into clear, actionable insights.
• Proven experience in business partnering, with confidence influencing and constructively challenging senior commercial and non‑finance stakeholders.
• A strong communicator and storyteller, able to present financial performance, risks, and opportunities in a clear and compelling way.
• Deep understanding of P&L management, forecasting, and the key drivers of revenue, cost, and profitability.
• Commercially minded, with a strong grasp of unit economics and value creation, and a passion for optimising trading performance.
• Skilled in business casing and investment appraisal, with the ability to challenge assumptions and ensure robust decision‑making.
• Detail‑oriented, with a focus on delivering high‑quality, accurate outputs while maintaining a broader strategic perspective.
• A proactive self‑starter with a problem‑solving mindset and a drive to continuously improve processes and insight.
• Confident working in a dynamic, evolving environment, able to manage competing priorities and deliver to tight deadlines.
• Strong collaborator, building trusted relationships across finance, commercial, FP&A, and BI teams.
• Advanced user of Excel and highly confident in creating impactful PowerPoint presentations for senior stakeholders.
• Motivated by growth, with a continuous improvement mindset and aspiration to develop leadership capability over time.

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