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About the Role

The Commercial Finance Manager (CFM) partners with the Consulting business and Sector Operating Units to provide financial insight, strategic guidance, and commercial support. The CFM acts as a trusted advisor to influence decision-making and drive value across bids, contracts, pricing, team structures, and operational delivery, ensuring financial rigour and commercial effectiveness.

Responsibilities

Deliver forward-looking financial analysis and performance reporting at client and Go-to-Market (GtM) levels.
Present insights to stakeholders in impactful formats, driving action and value through meaningful engagement.
Educate Unit Leads, Partners, and Consultants on financial principles and commercial acumen.
Lead workshops on finance topics such as bid modelling, the PA model and value creation strategies.
Provide commercial risk management support, including open book reporting and high-risk assignment reviews.
Engage across the full lifecycle of service delivery—from bid modelling to job closure—ensuring sound financial setup, pricing, and risk mitigation.
Deliver weekly, monthly, and quarterly performance reporting with variance analysis and actionable insights.
Lead forecasting, budgeting, and sensitivity modelling for business units and leadership.
Perform earned-value analysis to ensure accurate revenue and profit recognition.
Monitor job profitability against bid projections and advise on corrective actions.
Oversee job setup, invoicing, payment terms, and debt collection to manage working capital.
Review subcontractor arrangements and ensure accuracy in P2P processes.
Actively manage contract risk portfolios, raising concerns and proposing commercially sound solutions.
Advise on non-routine financial matters including currency exposure, taxation, and interest implications.
Lead internal audit readiness by preparing documentation, reconciling financial data, and ensuring compliance with internal controls.
Support external audit cycles, including the preparation of IFRS templates and coordination with auditors.
Ensure all financial activities are SOX compliant and follow established processes and policies.
Oversee subcontractor arrangements and P2P processes to ensure audit trail integrity and financial accuracy.
Actively manage contract risk portfolios, flagging concerns and proposing commercially sound solutions.
Monitor expense and cost anomalies, investigate out-of-policy spend, and implement corrective actions.
Provide commercial risk management support for high-risk assignments and open book reporting.

Requirements

Experience in dealing with and influencing senior stakeholders, excellent interpersonal skills required.
Experience at managing cross-function/business relationships at all levels within an organisation is desirable.
Strong commercial acumen and awareness.
Advanced excel skills and data analysis.
Previous experience in a global professional services environment and/or dealing with UK Government is highly desirable.
Previous Line management experience.
Applicants must have at least 5 years of continuous residency in the UK.
Applicants must be a British citizen or have been resident in the UK for the past 5 years.

Skills

Strategic Influence
Business Partnering
Commercial Awareness
Leadership & Communication
Data-Driven Insight
Ethical Judgment
Resilience & Agility
Forward Thinking
Credibility & Passion
Advanced excel skills
Data analysis

Location

London Victoria office
Melbourn office

Work Type

Hybrid working

Experience Level

Senior stakeholder management
Cross-function/business relationship management
Line management experience

Education Level

The equivalent of a UK 2:1 degree
Qualified Accountant - CIMA, ACCA, ACA

Benefits

Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare
25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
Generous company pension scheme
Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
Annual performance-based bonus
Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

About the Company

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.
As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.
Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster.
Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.
We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists.
We have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.
Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.
PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Equal Opportunity

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience.
We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on [email protected]