Interim Commercial Finance Consultant

Axon Moore are working with a leading global manufacturer who are looking for an interim commercial finance consultant to cover a period of change.

As an senior interim member of the finance leadership team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping financial governance and performance across our long-term projects and contracts. You will operate in a fast-paced, evolving environment, providing strategic financial leadership while ensuring robust control, insight, and accountability as the business scales to meet future challenges.

Duties:

• Provide end-to-end financial leadership for long-term projects and contracts, including revenue recognition, margin management, cost-to-complete forecasting, variance analysis, and proactive risk and opportunity management.
• Set the standard for project accounting controls, ensuring strong governance, accuracy, transparency, and compliance across the project portfolio.
• Drive enhanced cost visibility and embed disciplined financial management across all projects.
• Act as a strategic finance partner to senior stakeholders across project management, operations, procurement, and commercial functions.
• Lead and challenge the financial assumptions underpinning project forecasts, investment proposals, and operational plans, influencing outcomes through insight and evidence.
• Deliver clear, commercially focused analysis to support executive-level decision-making.
• Identify and lead cost optimisation, efficiency improvements, and margin enhancement initiatives with measurable impact.
• Design, implement, and continuously improve best-in-class project accounting processes, controls, and reporting frameworks.
• Strengthen forecasting accuracy, financial governance, and performance management across the full project lifecycle.
• Champion a culture of accountability, cost ownership, and continuous improvement throughout the organisation.
• Lead cross-functional change initiatives to professionalise project finance capability and ways of working.
• Provide regular, high-quality reporting to senior leadership on project performance, risks, and delivery outcomes.
• Prepare and present concise, influential financial insights and recommendations to executive and board-level stakeholders

Person Specification

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent).
• Significant experience in senior project finance or business partnering roles within engineering, automotive, logistics, or other long-term contract environments.
• Proven track record of influencing senior stakeholders, challenging assumptions, and driving improved financial and commercial outcomes.
• Strong experience working across complex, matrixed organisations with operations, procurement, and commercial teams.
• Highly developed analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to translate complexity into clear actions.
• Advanced Excel capability; financial modelling and systems improvement experience strongly desirable.
• Confident communicator with the credibility to engage, challenge, and influence at executive level.
• A leadership mindset with strong attention to detail, intellectual curiosity, and a continuous improvement ethos.

Hybrid working available, 3 days in the office.
Outside IR35
Potential for temp to perm