Commercial Finance Business Partner

Intrum; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in credit management seeks a Commercial Finance Business Partner in Manchester. This role involves advising stakeholders, delivering financial insights, and shaping strategic decisions to drive business performance. With a competitive salary and a supportive, values-driven environment, this position offers growth opportunities as part of a dynamic team.

Benefits

33 days holidays including bank holidays

Competitive salary and attractive benefits

Private medical insurance and life assurance

Discounts on gym memberships and cycle to work scheme

Employee recognition programmes

Extra day off for birthday

Qualifications

• Proven experience in commercial finance and business partnering.
• Ability to influence at all levels with strong stakeholder management.
• Experience in financial analysis and working with large data sets.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor, translating financial insights into strategic action.
• Deliver sharp financial analysis and forecasting to drive profitability.
• Contribute to budgeting, forecasting and long-term financial planning.

Skills

Commercial finance

Stakeholder management

Analytical mindset

Excel skills

Financial modelling

Communication skills

Education

ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified

Tools

ERP systems (e.g. SAP, Workday, Oracle)

BI tools

Job description

At Intrum, you will grow by making a difference. You will do it in a highly international environment and in a supportive culture where effort counts.

You don’t become the industry leader with average Finance hires.

Are you our new Commercial Finance Business Partner?

At Intrum, we lead the way to a sound economy by helping individuals and businesses get back on track. As a Commercial Finance Business Partner, you’ll play a key role in supporting our mission by delivering insight, driving performance, and helping shape strategic decisions that make a real difference.

Make a Difference in a Values-Driven Business

This is more than a finance role—it’s an opportunity to be a trusted advisor, working across teams to deliver meaningful impact. You’ll bring clarity to complex financial data, support growth, and help us deliver on our promise to clients and customers with empathy, ethics, dedication, and smart solutions.

You'll operate in our Manchester city centre office, with the added flexibility of hybrid working with travel to our other UK offices as required.

What you will do:

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders across the business, translating financial insights into strategic action.

• Partner with commercial teams to shape business performance, influence key decisions, and unlock growth opportunities by leading cross-functional collaboration, bringing finance to the heart of business conversations.

• Deliver sharp financial analysis and forecasting that drives profitability and operational excellence.

• Produce monthly client P&L statements and profitability reports to support performance reviews.

• Provide clear, actionable financial insights to support strategic initiatives and commercial planning including identifying risks and opportunities, recommending ways to optimise performance and efficiency.

• Drive improvements in reporting tools, dashboards, and planning processes.

• Contribute to budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning cycles including month-end reporting and liaise with FP&A and control teams to ensure integrity.

• Devoted to the FCA principle of Consumer Duty; by ensuring we are driving good customer outcomes across all aspects of services that have potential to impact our customers.

What we're looking for:

• Proven experience in commercial finance, with a strong track record of business partnering.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.

• Proactive, analytical mindset with a passion for solving problems and driving change.

• Confidence in working with large data sets, financial models, and performance metrics.

• Collaborative approach and a desire to make a tangible impact on business outcomes

• Advanced Excel skills and experience in financial modelling.

• Proficiency with ERP systems (e.g. SAP, Workday, Oracle) and BI tools.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence non-finance stakeholders.

• ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified with significant experience post-qualification.

What we offer: At Intrum we offer not only a challenging and rewarding career but also:

• Lifestyle: A competitive salary and attractive benefits package including 33 days holidays including bank holidays upon commencement, with the ability to buy more or sell back. You can participate in gadget schemes. Contributory workplace pension scheme. Additionally, you’ll get an extra day to celebrate your birthday.

• Opportunities to grow: You’ll receive training and coaching for your personal development/progression, and employee recognition programmes to help you grow in your career.

• Health: You’ll have access to private medical insurance, life assurance, and more.

• Wellbeing: You’ll enjoy discounts on gym memberships, cycle to work schemes, and a 24/7 employee assistance programme. You’ll also have sociable working hours and breakfast/ snacks provided in the office.

• Supportive, open, and value-driven culture: Ethics. Dedication. Solutions. Empathy. Our values aren’t just words hanging in the reception. They guide us all daily. It’s what makes our culture inclusively open, inspiringly supportive and rich in diverse perspectives. It’s why Intrum is a natural home for people ready to make a difference. And it’s why people like you recognise this is the place to do just that.

How to apply:

If you are interested in this position and believe you have the right experience, please send your English CV via the “apply button”. Are you curious and have some questions? You’re welcome to contact “our recruitment team for more information.

At Intrum we strive to create a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply.

If a person with disabilities is put at a disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes. If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should contact Intrum Talent Acquisition team via [e-mail] as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

About Intrum:

Intrum is the industry-leading provider of credit management services across 20 markets in Europe. By helping companies to get paid and support people with their late payments, Intrum leads the way to a sound economy and plays a critical role in society at large.

Intrum has circa 10,000 dedicated professionals who serve around 80,000 companies across Europe.

At Intrum we consider everybody to be a leader. We lead ourselves when collaborate to meet the needs of our clients and customers. We are all accountable to our actions as well as trust and care for each other. This makes us all leaders, independent of role or responsibility, and this is reflected in our 3 leadership principles: Deliver Impact, Inspire Trust and Embrace Growth.

We are an equal opportunities employer and authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. We will conduct credit, fraud, criminal record, right to work and reference checks as part of our pre-employment screening. You should not be bankrupt, have any outstanding county court judgments on your credit file. You must not have excessive default balances and any outstanding debt will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

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Ready to grow by making a difference? Apply now and join a team that’s leading the way to a sound economy.

Do you feel that you might be the right person? Great! Apply now. Looking forward to hearing from you!