Commercial Finance Manager job at London Full Time

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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