The Commercial Finance Manager will provide financial insight and support to drive strategic decision-making within the organisation. This role is essential in ensuring accurate financial planning and analysis to optimise performance within the financial services industry.

Client Details

We are seeking a commercially minded finance leader to manage a team of analysts and drive portfolio profitability across the business. This role is responsible for developing financial initiatives, enhancing reporting and governance, and supporting post-acquisition integration activities. The successful candidate will work closely with senior stakeholders across Finance, Commercial, FP&A and operational teams to deliver improved financial performance and informed decision-making.

A key part of the role is to build and develop a high-performing analytical team, ensuring consistent standards, strong business partnering, and removal of single-point dependencies through cross-training and process improvement.

Description

Deliver an Outstanding Customer Experience

• Deliver and demonstrate good customer outcomes across all interactions.
• Role-model organisational values and embed a strong Customer-First culture within the team.
• Promote and adhere to corporate governance standards, ensuring effective processes and a controlled working environment that minimises risk.

Team Leadership & Operational Delivery

• Direct, prioritise and manage the workload of Analysts to ensure key deadlines for internal and external stakeholders are consistently achieved.
• Foster a customer-focused mindset within the Finance function, developing a class-leading service that meets business needs.
• Instil a proactive, high-performance culture that ensures deliverables are accurate, timely and value-adding, while removing single-person dependencies through cross-training.
• Guide the team through data challenges, establishing effective ways of working and driving a consistent "one version of the truth" approach.
• Provide commercial support for non-standard pricing, early terminations and other ad-hoc commercial requirements.

Driving Improved Profitability

• Lead the team in designing, developing and implementing frameworks for portfolio management, profit-share, pooled mileage and maintenance profitability.
• Drive profitability improvements, reduce risk and ensure all balance sheet reconciliations are robust and compliant.
• Review early termination and contract extension processes to minimise financial risk and ensure associated administrative costs are appropriately covered.
• Identify opportunities to enhance pricing approaches and apply best-practice methodologies across all relevant pricing activities.
• Own deep-dive investigations into profitability drivers, working collaboratively with operational and pricing teams to compare actual contract costs to assumptions and deliver clear, actionable insights.

Customer Retention & Portfolio Quality

• Ensure departmental structures, processes, controls and business continuity plans are in place to support delivery of KPIs, taking action where required.
• Maximise end-of-contract revenue streams including excess mileage, early terminations and profit-share arrangements.
• Embed a "right-first-time" mindset within the team to deliver accurate, high-quality outputs for both internal and external stakeholders.
• Undertake any additional duties as required in line with business needs.

Profile

• Fully qualified accountant (e.g., ACA / ACCA / CIMA)
• Proven team management or leadership experience, ideally managing analysts or a small finance team
• Strong FP&A or commercial finance background, with experience in modelling, forecasting, and profitability analysis
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders
• Commercially minded, ideally with experience partnering with Sales or Commercial teams to support pricing, portfolio, or customer-driven decisions

Job Offer

• Salary up to £75,000
• Car allowance or cash alternative included as part of the package
• 20% annual bonus based on performance
• Competitive pension scheme
• 25+ days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Strong opportunities for progression within a growing finance function
• 50% working from home. and 50% in the office.