Your new company

Are you looking to join a fast‑growing, ambitious business with a clear growth agenda across the UK and international markets? This organisation is strengthening its finance team with the appointment of a Commercial Finance Manager to play a pivotal role in supporting strategic decision‑making and driving profitable growth is a broad, high‑impact position offering ownership of the full commercial finance agenda, including business partnering, profitability and growth analysis, forecasting, and strategic insight. The business is keen to speak with candidates who bring strong commercial finance experience, ideally from an FMCG, retail or consumer goods environment.

Your New Role

Reporting directly to the CFO, you will act as a key commercial partner to the wider business. Your responsibilities will include:

• Partnering closely with Sales, Marketing and Supply Chain to provide insightful, value‑adding commercial support
• Leading the budgeting, forecasting and rolling forecast process, including detailed volume, price, mix and margin analysis
• Owning P&L performance, with a focus on gross margin optimisation, net revenue and cost control
• Driving pricing, promotions and trade spend analysis, ensuring return on investment is clearly understood and optimised
• Delivering robust commercial modelling and scenario analysis to support strategic initiatives and NPD
• Acting as the finance lead for customer and channel profitability analysis
• Constructively challenging stakeholders to improve commercial performance and decision‑making
• Developing clear, actionable management reporting for senior leadership
• Identifying key risks and opportunities, translating data into practical commercial recommendations

This role offers genuine ownership and visibility, with the opportunity to shape how commercial insight is used across the organisation.

What you'll need to succeed

You will be a qualified finance professional (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) with proven experience in a commercial finance role, ideally within FMCG, consumer goods or retail. You'll be a confident, credible business partner who enjoys operating in a hands‑on, sole‑charge commercial finance role and influencing senior stakeholders.

What you'll get in return

You'll receive a competitive salary of £60,000 - £75,000 (DOE) alongside a strong benefits package. You'll work with an impressive leadership team and play a key role in an exciting and clearly defined growth journey.

What you need to do now

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