Commercial Finance Manager

  • Marc Daniels
  • May 12, 2026
Full time Banking Finance

Job Description

We are partnering with a large, well-established and highly successful business to recruit for a Commercial Finance Manager. This is a high-visibility role supporting senior stakeholders, driving financial discipline across the business and providing robust commercial insight to support investment and capital decisions.

Reporting into a senior finance leader, you will play a key role in shaping the performance across the business. You will act as a trusted finance partner to operational and transformation teams, ensuring strong financial process, high-quality analysis and clear insight to support decision-making.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Business partner senior stakeholders across functions to provide commercial insight on investment and capital projects

  • Lead budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning for operating costs and expenditure
  • Provide robust challenge on spend, efficiencies and return on investment
  • Own and develop financial models to support business cases, capital prioritisation and investment appraisal
  • Track and report performance against budgets, forecasts and approved business cases, clearly explaining variances
  • Support governance of capital projects, including post-investment reviews and benefits realisation
  • Contribute to wider finance and transformation initiatives within a high-performing finance function

Requirements

  • A recognised accounting qualification (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent)
  • Proven experience in a commercial finance or business-partnering role within a large or complex organisation

  • Strong experience of budgeting, forecasting and financial modelling
  • The ability to translate complex financial information into clear, actionable insight
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively
  • A proactive, curious mindset and a desire to improve how things are done

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