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About the Role

This senior commercial finance role involves translating business priorities into actionable plans, driving better decisions, and achieving measurable financial outcomes. You will serve as a trusted advisor and constructive challenger to an executive leader and their team, focusing on financial stewardship, investment choices, and value improvement.

Responsibilities

Lead planning and forecasting, delivering the annual budget, latest estimates, and multi-period plans with documented assumptions, risks, and opportunities.
Provide decision-ready insights by transforming financial and operational data into concise options and recommendations for senior leaders.
Drive performance through regular reviews focused on root cause analysis, forward impact, and corrective actions.
Oversee financial stewardship of the P&L, balance sheet, cash, working capital, and capital expenditure.
Shape investment choices by assessing business cases and tracking approved benefits.
Identify and deliver practical opportunities to reduce costs, strengthen cash, simplify processes, and improve resource allocation.
Improve reporting, models, data quality, and controls through standardization, automation, and responsible technology use.
Build trusted relationships and coordinate effectively across Finance and the wider business.
Manage and coach Finance Analysts, setting clear priorities and assuring work quality.
Build clear cost-driver insight across operational costs such as labour, contractors, fleet, and facilities.
Partner with operational leaders on capacity, suppliers, service levels, and resource choices.
Lead Finance support for capital planning, project forecasting, and post-investment review.
Improve decisions related to stock, fleet, print production, working capital, and cost allocation.
Provide reliable cost evidence for contract profitability, tenders, renewals, and portfolio decisions.

Requirements

Substantial experience in Finance Business Partnering, FP&A, commercial finance, or operational finance, independently supporting a complex senior-leader remit.
Strong understanding of P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, working capital, capital expenditure, accruals, provisions, and management reporting.
Proven track record of leading budgets, forecasts, analytical projects, and improvement activities through to practical action and measurable outcomes.
Excellent analytical and financial-modelling capability.
Strong Excel skills.
Experience with ERP, planning, or business-intelligence tools.
Experience using AI tools to support effectiveness.
The judgement and confidence to influence and constructively challenge senior stakeholders.
Ability to communicate complex issues simply.
Strong prioritization and project leadership skills.
Attention to detail, including timely escalation when delivery, assumptions, or controls are at risk.
Experience developing others, or clear readiness to coach, delegate, and assure the quality of an analyst’s work.

Skills

Finance Business Partnering
FP&A
Commercial Finance
Operational Finance
P&L Management
Balance Sheet Management
Cash Flow Management
Working Capital Management
Capital Expenditure Management
Accruals
Provisions
Management Reporting
Budgeting
Forecasting
Analytical Projects
Financial Modelling
Excel
ERP tools
Planning tools
Business Intelligence tools
AI tools
Stakeholder Management
Communication
Prioritization
Project Leadership
Attention to Detail
Coaching
Delegation
SAP
Power BI
Cross-functional transformation
Governance
Benefits realization
Asset-intensive environments
Engineering environments
Infrastructure environments
Logistics environments
Facilities management
Field operations
Media environments
Capital investment analysis
Stock management
Fleet management
Operational productivity analysis
Cost allocation

Experience Level

Senior

Education Level

Professional accounting qualification (ACCA, CIMA, ACA) or equivalent relevant experience

About the Company

We believe in building a diverse and inclusive culture and positive employee experience.
We are One Team, more than just ourselves.
We are customer first, we understand, and help solve our customers’ problems.
We Test & Learn, we are empowered to learn and grow, unafraid of change.
We choose to care, we are committed to doing the right thing, the right way.
It’s really important to us that we give as much to our colleagues as they give to us.
Our latest Belonging Survey showed that our colleagues feel valued and listened to as we continue to build an environment where everyone can thrive, grow, belong and be their authentic selves.
We believe that diversity of thought, experience and background provides the platform for great creativity.

Equal Opportunity

We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity.
Many of our Colleagues work flexibly in many different ways. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.