Commercial Finance Manager

Commercial Finance Manager

Salary is up to £70,000 + Car Allowance + Bonus

On site (possibly can offer 1 working from home day)

The Business

A growing, multi-entity organisation operating in a fast-paced environment. The focus is on strengthening financial control, improving reporting consistency, and driving enhanced visibility and ownership of financial performance across the business

Overview

This is a key finance role with primary responsibility for the control, integrity, and performance of the group P&L. You will lead the month-end close process, ensuring accurate, timely, and consistent reporting, while delivering clear insight into variances, risks, and performance drivers

Managing a small team, you will embed strong financial discipline across the business, with a particular focus on cost control, budget ownership, and accountability. You will strengthen balance sheet control while ensuring that P&L reporting is robust, transparent, and fully understood by both finance and non-finance stakeholders.

The role also involves driving standardisation across entities, improving processes, and reducing manual effort, while supporting senior stakeholders with meaningful financial insight to aid decision-making and performance improvement.

Require

• Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA)
• Strong experience in management and financial accounting
• Proven track record of owning and controlling a P&L
• Experience within a multi-entity environment
• Strong month-end close and reporting experience
• Excellent P&L and balance sheet understanding with a control-focused mindset
• Ability to deliver insightful variance analysis and challenge performance
• Strong cost control focus with the ability to enforce budget ownership
• Experience managing and developing finance team members
• Strong stakeholder management with the ability to influence non-finance teams
• Experience improving processes, controls, or reporting efficiency (desirable)