Commercial Finance Manager

Role Description 

• Act as finance partner to Growth, Product, and Commercial teams 

• Drive profitable growth through insight on pipeline, pricing, product and investment decisions 

• Translate data into clear commercial insights and outcomes 

• Own client profitability, pipeline, and investor insight 

• Provide independent challenge to improve decision quality 

Team Responsibilities 

• Contribute to core outputs (pipeline, reporting, profitability analysis) 

• Work closely with commercial finance, product, and regional teams 

• Apply consistent tools, models, and assumptions 

• Share insights and proactively highlight issues and opportunities 

• Support delivery of high-quality, decision-focused analysis 

Specific Role Responsibilities 

• Manage growth budgets, revenue and pipeline tracking 

• Analyse client/product profitability and key margin drivers 

• Partner with teams on deals, pricing, and commercial strategy 

• Provide insight on sales pipeline performance and conversion 

• Support business cases, product investment decisions, and strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment to agreed commercial metrics and KPIs 

• Deliver clear reporting and commentary to senior stakeholders 

• Identify risks, opportunities, and actions to improve outcomes 

• Ensure alignment across pipeline, forecast, and financial plans 

Experience Required 

• CPA/CA preferred  

• Minimum 4-5 years’ experience 

• Knowledge of financial services 

• Intermediate to advanced MS Excel skills 

• Independent, self-directing and delivery focused working style; 

• Strong analytical skills with a high attention to detail 

• Ability to manage competing deadlines, problem solve and analyse effectively 

• Strong business partnering with Sales / Product / Ops  

• Good team communication skills, confident in dealing with internal and external clients 

• Organizational management is key 

• Ability to work under pressure as part of an effective team