The opportunityThis is a highly influential commercial finance role where you’ll translate complex financial and operational information into clear insights, recommendations, and actions.As a trusted partner to senior operational leaders, you’ll provide commercial guidance across business performance, planning, pricing, investment, profitability, and risk. You’ll bring constructive challenge, strong financial discipline and a genuine understanding of the operational drivers behind performance.
- What you’ll be responsible forPartnering with senior leaders to identify performance risks, opportunities, and commercial trade-offs
- Leading budgeting, rolling forecasts and regular performance reviews
- Connecting financial outcomes with operational activity and key business drivers
- Developing commercial models and business cases for pricing, investment, growth, and cost optimisation
- Providing insight across revenue, margin, profitability, cash flow, working capital and capital expenditure
- Improving management reporting, dashboards, and planning processes
- Supporting sound financial governance, controls, and risk management
- Leading, coaching and developing a Commercial Analyst
- What you’ll bringCA, CPA, or CFA qualification
- At least eight years of relevant commercial finance experience
- Strong financial modelling, forecasting and scenario-analysis capability
- Proven ability to influence senior operational stakeholders and turn analysis into action
- Sound knowledge across P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, revenue, inventory, and capital expenditure
- Advanced Excel capability and practical experience with BI, planning, and ERP systems
- Strong commercial judgement, communication, and stakeholder-management skills
- Experience in profitability analysis and business-case governance
- Previous experience leading or coaching finance team members