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