Commercial Finance Manager

We Do Group; Woking; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

We Do Group in Woking, Surrey, is seeking a Commercial Finance Manager / Finance Business Partner to join our manufacturing & logistics division. The role focuses on partnering with leadership to improve financial performance, forecasting, and strategic decision-making, turning data into actionable insights across a multi-site operation.

You’ll lead budgeting, forecasting, and performance management, challenge assumptions, and support senior stakeholders with robust financial analysis to

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent.
• Proven experience in commercial finance and finance business partnering.
• Strong analytical and financial modelling capabilities.
• Experience in budgeting, forecasting and performance management.

Responsibilities

• Act as a senior Finance Business Partner providing commercial challenge and insight.
• Partner senior stakeholders on operational and strategic decisions.
• Develop understanding of profitability and key commercial drivers.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting and longer-term financial planning.
• Translate trends, risks and opportunities into recommendations.
• Produce insightful management information and performance reporting.
• Support strategic initiatives with robust financial analysis.
• Improve data use and analytics for actionable insight.
• Develop the wider commercial finance capability across the organisation.

Skills

Commercial Finance

Finance Business Partnering

Analytical Skills

Budgeting & Forecasting

Strategic Insight

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent

Job description

Commercial Finance Manager / Finance Business Partner

Woking, Surrey – Hybrid Working (50/50 split)

Manufacturing & Logistics

We're supporting a growing manufacturing and logistics business that is looking to appoint a Commercial Finance Manager.

This is a senior, commercially focused role working closely with leadership to improve financial performance, strengthen decision-making and provide greater visibility across a complex and growing operation.

You'll combine business partnering, forecasting, performance analysis and strategic insight, getting underneath the numbers to understand what is really driving performance and turning that into clear actions for the wider business.

The Role

This is much broader than producing reports and explaining variances. You'll work across Finance and the wider business to improve how financial information is used to make decisions.

You'll take a lead role across commercial planning and performance management, challenge assumptions, identify risks and opportunities and help senior stakeholders understand where the business is performing well and where improvements can be made.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a senior Finance Business Partner across the organisation, providing commercial challenge and insight
• Partner senior stakeholders on key operational and strategic decisions
• Develop a deeper understanding of business performance, profitability and the key commercial drivers
• Lead and improve budgeting, forecasting and longer-term financial planning
• Identify emerging trends, risks and opportunities and translate these into clear recommendations
• Produce and develop insightful management information, commercial analysis and performance reporting
• Support strategic initiatives, investment decisions and wider business cases with robust financial analysis
• Improve the use of data, reporting and analytics to provide clearer and more actionable insight
• Help develop the wider commercial finance capability and raise the standard of business partnering across the organisation

What We're Looking For

• Qualified accountant – ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent
• Proven experience across Commercial Finance and Finance Business Partnering
• Strong background within a multi-site or operationally complex environment
• Experience supporting and developing other commercial finance professionals would be advantageous
• Strong commercial understanding with the ability to identify and analyse the key drivers of revenue, cost, margin and profitability
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to turn complex financial and operational data into clear commercial insight
• Strong experience across budgeting, forecasting and performance management
• Commercial, curious and influential, with the ability to move between the detail and the bigger picture

Why Join?

This is a genuinely broad Commercial Finance and Business Partnering opportunity within a growing and evolving business. You'll have significant autonomy, work closely with senior stakeholders and play a key role in improving how the business uses financial insight to drive performance and make decisions