Commercial Finance Manager

ASK4; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

Join ASK4 as a Commercial Finance Manager and play a pivotal role in shaping financial strategy during a critical growth phase. In this mid-senior level role, you will partner with senior leaders to drive business outcomes through insightful reports and strategic financial planning. The ideal candidate is a fully qualified accountant with a strong analytical mindset and excellent communication skills, eager to make a meaningful impact.

Qualifications

• Fully qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA, or CIMA).
• Experience in budgeting and forecasting across P&L and cash flow.
• Experience in a fast-paced professional services environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Group’s annual budgeting and reforecasting processes.
• Produce financial forecasts and performance reports.
• Conduct detailed variance analysis on revenue, cost, and margins.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Communication skills

Financial modelling skills

Advanced Excel

Commercial acumen

Education

ACCA

ACA

CIMA

Tools

Anaplan

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Are you looking for a strategic finance role that’s more than just numbers, one that drives real business outcomes?

Do you thrive when helping senior leaders make informed, future-focused decisions?

Are you ready to play a pivotal role in shaping financial strategy at a critical point in a company’s growth?

Find out more about working for ASK4 here.

ASK4 is growing, expanding our services, and reaching new territories, and we are looking for motivated and dedicated individuals to help us reach our ambitious goals. Thanks to new investment we are recruiting to help support the company’s growth as well as maintain the high level of service that ASK4 is renowned for.

Working within the Commercial Finance Team, you’ll be responsible for delivering forward-looking analysis, insightful reporting, and robust financial forecasts. This role combines strategic thinking with hands-on analysis, helping to bring clarity to business performance and supporting a wide range of commercial initiatives. As the company approaches a key milestone, ASK4 is seeking a commercially minded individual to help shape the business strategically, with a focus on maximising value for shareholders. It’s a high-impact role in a fast paced, dynamic environment ideal for someone eager to make a meaningful difference.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead the coordination of the Group’s annual budgeting and mid year reforecasting processes, including managing timelines, stakeholder engagement, and delivering clear, insightful presentations.
• Enhance and maintain financial planning tools, leading the integration of the Anaplan platform into core planning and reporting processes.
• Maintenance of a risks and opportunities schedule to support ongoing performance visibility and decision making outside formal forecast cycles.
• Produce financial forecasts, including analysis of banking covenant compliance and headroom to support strategic financial planning.
• Deliver insightful monthly performance reports and dashboards, leveraging and evolving existing KPI reporting to support business understanding.
• Conduct detailed variance analysis on revenue, cost, and margin performance, identifying key performance drivers and recommending corrective actions.
• Partner with senior operational and commercial teams as a trusted advisor, translating financial data into strategic insights and business opportunities.
• Provide financial leadership across cross functional initiatives, contributing to strategic projects and supporting growth, efficiency, and profitability objectives.

Our ideal candidate will have experience of:

• Fully qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA, or CIMA), with a strong grounding in core accounting principles.
• Professional services environment, not necessarily in Commercial Finance and/or FP&A, but with highly transferable skills ideally from within a fast-paced and complex business environment.
• Demonstrated expertise in budgeting and forecasting across both P&L and cash flow, with the ability to drive planning processes.
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills (Anaplan experience beneficial)
• Strong analytical mindset, intellectually curious, and confident in delivering actionable insights from complex financial data.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly summarise and present financial information to senior stakeholders.
• Commercially astute and strategically minded, with a proactive approach to identifying opportunities for business improvement.
• Organised and adaptable, capable of balancing structure with agility to respond to shifting business priorities.

Any questions you have about the role, or your suitability please email [e-mail].

At ASK4 we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We value an inclusive culture and do not discriminate. Our hiring outcomes and commitments are based upon your talent and experience. If you would like to request this advert in other formats please contact [e-mail] for assistance.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Part-time

Job function

• Job function

  Finance and Accounting/Auditing

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet, Telecommunications, and Technology, Information and Media

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