Commercial Finance Manager

Overview

As Commercial Finance Manager, you will drive financial insight for revenue planning and commercial decision-making across the business. You’ll partner with senior stakeholders to support tender activity, pricing and strategic projects, translating complex data into actionable insights. You’ll own top-end P&L reporting and monitor performance across markets, contributing to growth and profitability in an international context. This role blends hands-on financial analysis with cross-functional collaboration to enable informed decisions and value creation.

Responsibilities

• Own revenue budgeting and forecasting in collaboration with commercial and operations teams
• Provide financial analysis and modelling for new opportunities and tenders
• Support tender responses by assessing revenue, margin, costs and commercial assumptions
• Own top-end P&L reporting and highlight drivers and movements
• Analyse actuals vs budget/forecast/prior year to identify opportunities
• Partner with senior stakeholders to provide financial insight and challenge
• Develop financial models and business cases for strategic/commercial decisions
• Support pricing and commercial negotiations with detailed financial analysis
• Contribute financial input to projects, initiatives and transformation
• Identify opportunities to improve revenue, margin and profitability
• Produce management information for senior leadership
• Coordinate with international teams to understand performance across markets
• Support wider finance team with budgeting, forecasting and planning
• Continually improve commercial reporting, processes and models

Key requirements

• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualification, or equivalent experience
• Strong experience in commercial finance, FP&A or management accounting
• Experience with revenue budgeting and forecasting
• Strong understanding of P&L, revenue and margin analysis
• Excellent financial modelling and Excel skills
• Experience supporting tenders, bids, pricing or commercial proposals (advantageous)
• Strong stakeholder management with ability to influence
• Ability to translate complex financial data into clear commercial insights
• Proactive, hands-on approach with attention to detail
• Experience in international, supply chain/logistics/operational environments (beneficial)

• stakeholder management
• ability to challenge and influence
• commercial acumen
• financial modelling
• Excel (advanced)
• P&L analysis

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