Commercial Finance Manager

Robert Walters UK; Derry/Londonderry; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading distribution business in Manchester seeks a Commercial Finance Manager to lead a team of analysts and deliver financial insights. The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant with experience in commercial finance, particularly in distribution, and proficient in tools like Power BI and SQL. This position offers a clear succession pathway to Finance Director and requires on-site work, with reasonable flexibility. It’s a great opportunity to influence strategic decisions and drive results within an ambitious leadership team.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in commercial finance within a distribution or manufacturing environment.
• Highly IT savvy, especially in data manipulation tools like Power BI and SQL.
• Leadership experience overseeing a team and interacting with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team delivering commercial insight and reporting.
• Oversee commercial analytics, pricing, and forecasting strategies.
• Partner with senior leadership to support growth targets.

Skills

Financial analysis

Commercial insight

Team leadership

Data manipulation

Business partnering

Education

Qualified accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA)

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Job description

Commercial Finance job for a leading distribution business in Manchester, reporting into the Finance Director and Managing Director. This job offers great exposure to the management team, opportunities to progress internally and in a wider group, and be part of a leadership team aiming to deliver ambitious organic growth targets in the next 3-5 years with an M&A pipeline to supplement that.

This is a Commercial Finance Manager job for a B2B distribution business in Manchester, leading a team of analysts to deliver commercial insight, monthly reporting, business partnering to support a senior leadership team with challenging but exciting growth targets!

This role blends strategy, insight, and leadership-overseeing commercial analytics, pricing, forecasting, and system implementations while acting as a key partner to senior stakeholders. The position also deputises for the Finance Director and offers a clear succession pathway to Finance Director, or within the wider business.

You’ll lead a small team focused on delivering meaningful financial insight, ensuring data accuracy, and enhancing the tools and systems that support commercial decisions. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys turning data into action, improving processes, and working with finance and non‑finance leaders to drive results.

You will be a qualified accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA) looking to progress and develop in an SME environment with financial support from a large corporate parent. You will have exposure to commercial finance in a commercial business setting (ideally distribution/manufacturing or a product business), you will be highly IT savvy in particular with manipulating data sets using Power BI and SQL would be highly advantageous.

You will need to work on site 5 days a week, with sensible flexibility for appointments etc, but a requirement to be working in the office the vast majority of the time.

Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.