Commercial Finance Manager

Ignata Finance - a ZRG Company; England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading SaaS company in the UK is seeking a Commercial Finance Manager to support key decision-making by providing insightful financial analysis and ROI assessments. This role demands strong analytical skills, ACA qualification, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. You will collaborate with the CFO and cross-functional teams to ensure robust financial reporting and business partnering while driving significant growth initiatives. The position offers a salary in the range of £70k-£75k.

Qualifications

• Strong technical training ideally in practice.
• Highly commercial and entrepreneurial mindset.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the CFO to manage external party relationships.
• Develop a KPI framework with non-finance departments.
• Build and present robust financial business cases.
• Enable full visibility of ROI through viability studies.
• Present investment appraisals to leadership.
• Ensure integrity of Salesforce revenue reporting.
• Review contracts and prepare deal sheets.

Skills

Advanced Excel skills

Analytical skills

Business partnering

Attention to detail

Self-motivated

Education

ACA Qualified or practice trained

Job description

Commercial Finance Manager

We are working with an industry leading global SaaS business on an exponential growth trajectory. Current revenues of circa £40m represent 30% YoY growth and evidence a transformative bottom line and runway to continue to accelerate. We are looking for a Commercial Finance Manager to work closely with both the Group CFO and Head of FP&A whilst business partnering cross functionally to build and present robust financial business cases and ROI appraisals facilitating key decision making in line with the growth plans of the business.

This is not a BAU role and will best suit someone with strong technical training (ideally practice) coupled with a highly commercial, entrepreneurial mindset, eye for detail and priority toward data integrity.

The role is 5 days per week in the Central London office.

Key Deliverables:

• Work closely with the CFO to manage key relationships with external parties including high value customer relationships
• Work with non-finance departments to develop a KPI framework, ensuring provision of information to improve the understanding of performance measures
• Business Partner cross functionally (including Sales, Marketing, IT and Product Development teams) to build and present robust financial business cases and ROI assessments
• Ensure full visibility of ROI, through viability studies of new proposals (system improvements / implementations, new product development and R&D spend).
• Present pre and post investment appraisals to senior leadership to support key decision making, taking a holistic and in depth view of the Global P&L.
• Collaborate with the data team to ensure integrity and consistency of Salesforce revenue and ARR (annual recurring revenue) reporting
• Contracts review and Deal sheet preparation
• Other ad hoc tasks where necessary to support the Group Financial Controller

About You:

• ACA Qualified or practice trained
• Advanced Excel skills
• Self motivated and driven
• Highly analytical with attention to detail
• Excellent business partnering skills
• Comfortable operating with agility in a fast paced environment

Salary: £70k-£75k