Package: Up to £95,000 base strong bonus executive‑level benefits
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he role This is a senior commercial leadership opportunity within a high‑velocity, multi‑billion‑pound consumer organisation operating at national scale. The business is complex, operationally intense and constantly evolving — and finance plays a central role in shaping how it grows, invests and performs.
As Senior Finance Manager, you will sit at the core of strategic and operational decision‑making, acting as a critical advisor to senior leaders. This is not a traditional reporting role — it’s about driving forward commercial outcomes, challenging thinking, and ensuring financial insight is embedded into how the business is run.
You’ll operate across a broad, multi‑site footprint, balancing short‑term performance with long‑term value creation, while leading and developing a high‑performing finance team.
Key accountabilities
- Acting as lead finance partner to senior operational and commercial leaders, influencing decisions with material financial impact
- Owning complex end‑to‑end financial planning for a large operational estate, encompassing forecasting, budgeting and scenario modelling
- Providing clear, forward‑looking insight on revenue, margins, cost drivers, labour and productivity
- Driving financial rigour into strategic initiatives, investments, pricing decisions and operational change programmes
- Leading and evolving reporting and insight capabilities to support faster, better quality decision‑making
- Playing a hands‑on role in major commercial negotiations, ensuring outcomes align with wider business objectives
- Developing and setting direction for a team of finance professionals, raising commercial capability and standards across the function
- Acting as a senior voice within the wider finance leadership community, contributing to broader finance transformation and strategy
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) with significant post‑qualification experience
- Strong track record in senior commercial finance roles within large, complex, customer‑driven organisations
- Deep experience operating in multi‑site or high‑volume environments where pace and scale matter
- A proven business partner at senior level — comfortable influencing, challenging and shaping decisions
- Commercially astute, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and competing priorities
- Experienced people leader with a genuine interest in building high‑performing teams
- Confident communicator who can distil complex financial narratives into clear, actionable messages
- Senior‑level influence in a high‑profile, commercially ambitious business
- Exposure to complex decision‑making at scale
- Opportunity to shape strategy, performance and capability — not just report on them
- Competitive package with base salary up to £95k plus bonus
