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About the Role
As a Senior Commercial Finance Manager, you will support the Group Finance Director and leadership team by delivering accurate, timely, and insightful financial reporting. Your focus will be on leading Group reporting, budgeting, and forecasting processes, ensuring financial information supports better business decisions through collaboration with stakeholders. This role is ideal for someone with strong commercial finance expertise and a proactive, analytical mindset who enjoys working closely with senior stakeholders and influencing business performance.
Responsibilities
- Prepare the Group's monthly management reporting.
- Produce reporting for the Executive Leadership Team and Board.
- Analyze revenue, gross margin, operating costs, and EBITDA.
- Prepare clear commentary explaining business performance, key movements, risks, and opportunities.
- Investigate queries from the Group Finance Director and senior leaders, providing clear answers and recommendations.
- Continue to improve reporting, KPIs, and dashboards.
- Support the forecasting process.
- Support the annual budget process.
- Prepare financial models and scenario analysis.
- Monitor performance against budget and forecast, explaining key variances.
- Highlight risks and opportunities early.
- Prepare the Group's operating expense reporting.
- Work closely with budget holders to review monthly spend.
- Lead regular meetings with budget holders to review performance and forecasts.
- Prepare monthly operating expense forecasts.
- Investigate and explain significant variances.
- Identify opportunities to improve cost control and reporting.
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders across the business.
- Provide financial support and challenge where needed.
- Help managers understand their financial performance.
- Support business cases and commercial decisions with clear financial analysis.
- Work with the Financial Control team to ensure accurate month-end reporting.
- Prepare monthly variance analysis and supporting commentary.
- Support ad hoc analysis and reporting as required.
- Improve reporting, forecasting, and planning processes.
- Look for opportunities to automate and simplify reporting.
- Help improve the quality and consistency of financial information.
Requirements
- ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified with strong experience in Commercial Finance, FP&A or Finance Business Partnering roles.
- Proven experience preparing management reporting, budgets, forecasts, and financial models in a commercial environment.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex financial information and translate it into actionable insights.
- Confident communicator with experience partnering with senior stakeholders and explaining financial concepts to non-finance teams.
- Advanced Excel skills.
- Experience using financial systems such as NetSuite and reporting tools such as Power BI is desirable.
- Experience working within consumer products, retail, e-commerce, or another fast-paced, high-growth environment.
Skills
- Commercial Finance
- FP&A
- Finance Business Partnering
- Management Reporting
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Financial Modeling
- Scenario Analysis
- Revenue Analysis
- Gross Margin Analysis
- Operating Costs Analysis
- EBITDA Analysis
- Cost Control
- Business Partnering
- Financial Analysis
- Month-End Reporting
- Variance Analysis
- Process Improvement
- Automation
- Excel
- NetSuite
- Power BI
Location
- Holborn, London
Work Type
- Full-time
- Permanent
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- ACA
- ACCA
- CIMA
Salary/Compensations
- £75,000 to £85,000 per year
Benefits
- 30 days holiday + 8 UK bank holidays
- Pension contribution Scheme – 5% from you, 3% from us
- Private Medical Insurance – Includes travel, vision & dental (Vitality)
- Work from Abroad – One month per year
- Bonus Scheme – Discretionary
- Mental Health Support – Free, confidential therapy via Spill
- Opportunity for International Travel
- Flexi-Fridays – Finish early one Friday per month
- Olstar Events – Quarterly meetups, celebrations & socials
- Vibrant Office – Runway East, Bloomsbury
About the Company
- Avenir Collective is building the future of beauty, personal care, and lifestyle brands.
- We acquire and scale high-potential consumer brands, bringing together capital, people, and operating expertise to turn strong brands into enduring businesses.
- We are operators, actively managing our brands and providing the capabilities, infrastructure, and expertise they need to scale, while preserving the product, purpose, and consumer connection that make each brand special.
- We’re building a connected house of brands where great people, brands, and ideas come together.
- We are a collaborative, entrepreneurial team.
Equal Opportunity
- Avenir Collective is proud to be a disability-committed employer registered in the UK.
- If you identify as having a disability and meet all of the criteria set out in the job description, we would like to support you through the interview stage.
- We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment where all employees and applicants can flourish.