Senior Commercial Finance Manager, Technical & Operations

Overview

In this role you partner with commercial leads to drive financially sound decision making. You will own budgeting, forecasting, and month-end close, providing performance insights on new clients, risks, opportunities, and drivers such as regions and technology. You will challenge pricing, discounts, and trade spend while ensuring alignment with plans. The role sits at the intersection of finance and commercial teams, enabling value-added analysis and streamlined processes in a fast-paced sports marketing environment.

Responsibilities

• Partner with commercial leads to supply timely financial information for decisions
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and month-end close with performance analysis
• Deliver actionable performance insights on clients, risks/opportunities, and drivers
• Support and challenge pricing, discounts, and trade spend effectiveness
• Oversee budgeting/planning for the commercial team with accurate reflection of pricing and discounts
• Identify and communicate risks and opportunities to the business timely
• Simplify planning, forecasting, reporting, and use of systems to drive value-added partnering
• Ensure internal controls and audits (including SOX) are supported and action plans followed
• Build strong partnering relationships with internal/external stakeholders

Key requirements

• Qualified Accountant ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent
• Minimum 5 years PQE
• Minimum 1 year commercial finance experience
• Commercial finance management experience
• Proven business partnering experience across multiple stakeholders
• Strong commercial awareness and business acumen
• Experience with P&L ownership, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, ROI, pricing, and risk management
• Advanced Excel skills (Pivot, Lookup, formulas) and financial modelling
• Experience using Power BI for reporting and analytics
• Strong analytical/problem-solving skills and ability to translate data into insights
• Understanding of end-to-end business processes and matrix organizations
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Strong organizational and prioritisation skills; ability to manage multiple projects; detail-oriented
• Resilience and adaptability in a fast-paced environment
• Collaborative team player with a professional approach
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• communication
• stakeholder management
• collaboration
• Power BI
• Excel (Pivot Tables, Lookup)
• SAP/S4HANA

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