As a Commercial Finance Manager, you will provide strategic financial insight, challenge, and guidance to support business performance and value creation across forecasting, budgeting, and long-range planning processes. You will deliver accurate and actionable financial reporting and analysis, identifying risks and opportunities while recommending corrective actions to influence key business decisions. Partnering closely with Sales, Marketing, and Customer Development teams, you will help develop and execute plans to meet and exceed budget and P&L targets, ensuring commercial decisions are supported by robust financial analysis.
A key part of the role will involve leading customer, channel, and product profitability analysis, providing recommendations to improve margins, optimise investments, and maximise profitability. You will evaluate commercial proposals, business cases, and investment opportunities, ensuring alignment with company objectives, governance standards, and approval processes. In addition, you will oversee account-level balance sheet management, including trade investments, customer deductions, and recovery of invalid deductions.
You will play an active role in identifying commercial opportunities, driving process improvements, and supporting value-creation initiatives across the business. Working collaboratively with colleagues across Finance and other functions, you will build strong relationships to ensure a clear understanding of financial performance and strategic priorities. You will also monitor and challenge the delivery of key strategic and transformational projects, ensuring expected financial benefits are realised.
The role includes leading and supporting finance transformation initiatives such as acquisitions, systems enhancements, process simplification, and technology improvements. You will provide high-quality financial modelling, scenario planning, and decision support for strategic opportunities and investments. As a people leader, you will develop, coach, and support the Commercial Finance Analyst, strengthening analytical capability and financial business partnering across the team while maintaining strong financial governance and compliance with internal controls and company policies.
