Commercial Finance Manager

Lead Strategic Finance Initiatives

Company Background

Our client is a well-established, successful and instantly recognisable online entertainment brand. The company’s forward-thinking approach, coupled with its outstanding leadership team, has led them to become an undisputed market leader.

This is an enterprise that is fast-paced and dynamic with a vibrant culture.

Due to continuing growth, they are looking for a Commercial Finance Manager to join the Finance team. On offer is a professional and vibrant culture coupled with an excellent and rare hybrid working arrangement – work 3 days from home each week after training.

It’s a great place to work and grow your career in a company that promotes personal development and collaboration. Throughout the Finance team, there are numerous examples of individuals who have been promoted up through the ranks.

The Role

Your role as the Commercial Finance Manager will be broad and provide outstanding exposure across the business. You will work as part of a high-calibre FP&A team whilst reporting into a talented and energising Head of FP&A.

Your duties will broadly be broken down as follows (but not limited to):

• Collaborate with stakeholders to challenge existing practices and influence decision-making to enhance profitability and operational performance.
• Lead end-to-end budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes, working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver accurate and aligned financial plans.
• Develop robust financial models, scenario analysis, and business cases to support growth initiatives, new product launches, and revenue-generating opportunities.
• Evaluate product performance and margins, identifying trends, risks, and opportunities to drive revenue optimisation.
• Track and report on weekly and monthly performance against forecasts, providing clear variance analysis and actionable recommendations to stakeholders.
• Enhance and streamline reporting frameworks to improve efficiency, accuracy, and timeliness, including identifying opportunities for automation and advanced analytics.
• Prepare high-quality financial presentations and insights for senior leadership, including CFO and Executive team reporting packs.
• Lead and develop direct report/s, ensuring effective workload allocation and creating opportunities for growth and career development.

Your Background

To be considered for this Commercial Finance Manager role, you will ideally meet the following criteria:

• Professionally qualified (e.g. CA, ACA, CPA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Proven experience in the areas of FP&A, including budgeting, forecasting, analysis and business partnering.
• Prior staff supervision experience, whether that be as a Team Leader, day-to-day Supervisor or direct Manager, would be advantageous.
• Well organised with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with competing deadlines.
• Experience, enthusiasm and curiosity to improve processes and/or systems (with proven prior examples).
• Have excellent communication skills and proven stakeholder management capabilities.

If you are keen to apply for this Commercial Finance Manager role, please contact Cass Pratt at Richard Lloyd on 02 8324 2014, quoting reference 9939 or click on 'apply now' below.

Please submit your CV in Word format and note that due to the high volume of responses we receive only suitable candidates will be contacted.