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About the Role

The Senior Commercial Finance Analyst will support the Group Commercial Finance Director in delivering high-quality commercial finance support across capital planning, new site feasibility, property, leases, insurance, commercial agreements, and business partnering activities. This role provides analytical, modelling, and commercial insight to support decision-making for senior stakeholders and strengthens governance, reporting, and data-led decision-making.

Responsibilities

Support the Group Commercial Finance Director in the day-to-day management, review, and reporting of Group capital planning.
Review capex submissions and business cases to ensure they are complete, appropriately supported, and aligned with Group policy and approval requirements.
Prepare analysis on committed, approved, and forecast capex spend, highlighting risks, variances, and areas requiring management attention.
Support the development and maintenance of capital planning reporting, governance trackers, and approval materials.
Work with Finance, Development, and Operations teams to ensure capex decisions are supported by clear financial analysis and appropriate challenge.
Prepare and review financial models for new site opportunities, refurbishments, and development projects.
Support the review of key assumptions, including revenue, cost, payroll, rent, capex, working capital, and return metrics.
Prepare concise summaries of feasibility outputs, sensitivities, and key risks for senior stakeholder review.
Work with Development, Operations, and Finance teams to ensure feasibility models are robust, consistent, and clearly documented.
Support the assessment of accounting implications linked to new site decisions, including leases, capitalisation, and impairment considerations.
Support financial analysis relating to leases, property costs, rent reviews, lease amendments, and other property-related commercial arrangements.
Assist in the financial review of JV, HMA, and key commercial agreements, ensuring key terms are understood, summarised, and reflected in management reporting.
Prepare analysis to support negotiation, renewal, or restructuring of commercial agreements.
Maintain clear summaries of key obligations, financial commitments, and commercial risks across relevant agreements.
Work closely with Legal, Property, and Finance colleagues to provide timely financial input into commercial decision-making.
Support the Group Commercial Finance Director with analysis and reporting relating to insurance programmes, claims, and coverage matters.
Assist with the preparation and financial support of Business Interruption and Contingent Business Interruption claims.
Gather, reconcile, and analyse financial information required to support claims preparation and recovery.
Work with Operations, Finance, and external advisors to ensure claims data is accurate, well-evidenced, and clearly presented.
Help maintain reporting on open claims, recoveries, insurance costs, and key risk areas.
Provide analytical support to the Group Commercial Finance Director in business partnering Soho Works, Residences, and other business lines.
Prepare monthly performance analysis, commercial insight, and decision-support materials for relevant business areas.
Support the review of revenue, cost, margin, and profitability trends, identifying opportunities to improve performance.
Build strong working relationships with operational and functional teams, providing clear, practical, and commercially focused finance support.
Translate financial analysis into clear commentary and recommendations for non-finance stakeholders.
Support the use of AI-enabled tools, ERP data, and automation to improve the quality, speed, and consistency of commercial finance analysis.
Help develop repeatable reporting templates, dashboards, and analytical outputs across capital planning, feasibility, and commercial agreements.
Identify opportunities to reduce manual effort, improve data quality, and strengthen decision-making through better use of systems and automation.
Support process improvements across commercial finance workstreams, ensuring outputs are efficient, controlled, and scalable.
Maintain strong documentation and version control for key models, reports, and governance materials.

Requirements

Strong commercial finance, FP&A, investment appraisal, or corporate finance experience, ideally gained in a multi-site, hospitality, property, leisure, retail, or consumer-facing business.
Excellent financial modelling and analytical skills, with experience preparing or reviewing business cases, feasibility models, or investment appraisals.
Good understanding of capex, leases, property costs, and commercial agreements.
Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills, with the ability to turn analysis into clear, concise outputs for senior stakeholders.
Experience working with ERP, BI, or reporting tools, with an interest in AI-enabled analytics and automation.
Strong attention to detail, with the ability to challenge assumptions and identify risks or inconsistencies.
Good technical accounting awareness, particularly around leases, capex, and capitalisation, with willingness to work closely with technical accounting specialists.
Experience in hospitality, property, leisure, retail, membership, or multi-site businesses would be advantageous.
Commercially minded finance professional who enjoys working close to the business, reviewing investment decisions, supporting strategic projects, and improving the quality of financial insight.
Comfortable working with detailed models and data, but equally able to step back and explain the key commercial message clearly.
Hands-on, pragmatic, and confident operating in a fast-paced environment where priorities can change quickly.
Looking to build broader commercial finance experience across capital planning, property, new site feasibility, insurance, commercial agreements, and business partnering within a growing international group.

Skills

Financial modelling
Analytical skills
Capex analysis
Lease analysis
Commercial agreement analysis
Excel
PowerPoint
ERP systems
BI tools
Reporting tools
AI-enabled analytics
Automation
Stakeholder management
Communication
Ownership
Governance
Process improvement

Experience Level

Senior

Education Level

Qualified accountant or studying towards ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent would be preferred.

Benefits

Annual Every House Membership
50% off Food & Drink, 7 days a week
Staff Room Rates
Private Health and Dental Care
Weekly Pay
Life Assurance
Up to 50% Staff Discount on Cowshed & Soho Home
In Office Dog Policy on Fridays
Season Ticket Loan
Christmas Office Closure
2 days paid a year to support a charity of your choice
Free Counselling Sessions
Cookhouse & House Tonic programmes offer unique food and drink trainings, events and opportunities to inspire and educate.
Continuous training to develop yourself personally and professionally
Exclusive access to our benefits platform with hundreds of discounts on shopping, gym memberships, holidays, insurance and much more
Team Events: From fitness sessions to cinema screenings and art classes, each month we hold a series of fun events which you can sign up to.

About the Company

Soho House offers competitive compensation packages that feature global benefits and perks.
Whether you’re seeking entry-level employment or a new opportunity to expand your profession, we offer training to develop the technical and managerial skills necessary to grow your career.