Finance Manager - Commercial & Performance

Iconic Resourcing; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

The Wise Group in Glasgow is seeking a Finance Manager – Commercial & Performance to join a reshaped finance function. You will partner with Service Delivery and Commercial & Partnerships to translate financial insights into actionable decisions.

Reporting to the Head of Finance, you will lead analysis of contract performance, support bids and pricing, and develop financial models and scenarios, while supervising the Financial Analyst and strengthening controls.

Qualifications

• Qualified CIMA, ACCA, CA or equivalent, with broad relevant finance experience.
• Strong commercial and financial judgement, with experience of performance analysis, forecasting and financial modelling.
• Curious and able to translate complex financial information into clear insights.
• Confident building trusted relationships and providing constructive challenge.
• Experience of pricing, bids and commercial support to opportunities would be valuable.
• Able to lead and develop others; values social impact alongside financial return.

Responsibilities

• Be a trusted Finance partner to Service Delivery and Commercial & Partnerships, providing insight, support and constructive challenge.
• Understand the financial and operational drivers behind contract and service performance.
• Use management information, forecasts and analysis to identify risks, opportunities and choices.
• Provide financial and commercial input into bids, pricing and new opportunities.
• Develop and challenge financial models, business cases and investment proposals.
• Strengthen the link from bid and pricing through mobilisation into delivery.
• Support the Head of Finance with enterprise-wide forecasting and forward-looking financial insight.
• Lead and develop the Financial Analyst.
• Work with the Finance Manager – Accounting & Control to ensure robust information and controls.

Skills

Performance analysis

Forecasting

Financial modelling

Financial judgement

Education

CIMA/ACCA/CA or equivalent

Job description

Finance Manager – Commercial & Performance

The Wise Group

Glasgow | Flexible | Hybrid Working

Iconic Resourcing is proud to be retained exclusively by The Wise Group - one of Scotland's leading social enterprises - to find their next Finance Manager – Commercial & Performance. The Wise Group is evolving its Finance function, creating a stronger connection between financial performance, delivery and growth.

Reporting to the Head of Finance, the Finance Manager – Commercial & Performance will work closely with Service Delivery and Commercial & Partnerships, helping colleagues understand financial and contract performance, what is driving change and what that means for the decisions ahead.

Supported by a Financial Analyst, the role will use financial information to look ahead, challenge assumptions and turn insight into action. It will also play an important role in bids, pricing and new opportunities, helping shape the financial and commercial assumptions at the outset and ensuring these carry through into mobilisation and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Be a trusted Finance partner to Service Delivery and Commercial & Partnerships, providing insight, support and constructive challenge.
• Get underneath contract and service performance, understanding the financial and operational drivers behind it.
• Use management information, forecasts and analysis to identify emerging risks, opportunities and choices.
• Provide financial and commercial input into bids, pricing and new opportunities, testing assumptions and ensuring proposals stack up.
• Develop and challenge financial models, business cases, investment proposals and options.
• Strengthen the link from bid and pricing through mobilisation and into delivery, ensuring assumptions and commitments remain understood as services go live.
• Support the Head of Finance with enterprise-wide forecasting, performance and forward-looking financial insight.
• Lead and develop the Financial Analyst.
• Work closely with the Finance Manager – Accounting & Control to ensure insight and decision-making are underpinned by strong financial information and controls.

Person Specification

• Qualified CIMA, ACCA, CA or equivalent, with broad relevant finance experience.
• Strong commercial and financial judgement, with experience of performance analysis, forecasting and financial modelling.
• Curious and able to get beyond what the numbers say to understand why.
• Able to translate complex financial information into clear insight and practical choices.
• Confident building trusted relationships and providing constructive challenge.
• Comfortable working alongside operational and commercial colleagues and getting underneath how services and contracts actually work.
• Enjoys working alongside people and understands that strong business partnering means being visible and spending time with teams, including in person where that helps build relationships and understanding.
• Able to work with ambiguity, test assumptions and explore different scenarios.
• Experience of pricing, business cases, investment appraisal or financial support to bids and new opportunities would be valuable.
• Able to lead and develop others.
• Understands that value at the Wise Group is about social impact as well as financial return.

Why the Wise Group?

The Wise Group is a social enterprise with a clear purpose: to help lift people out of poverty.

For more than 40 years we have worked across Scotland and the North East of England, supporting people and communities to overcome barriers and create better futures.

At the heart of our approach is Relational Mentoring – starting with the person rather than the service and building trusted relationships that help people navigate challenges and make lasting change.

Today, the Wise Group is also evolving. We are investing in our data, evidence, technology, partnerships and commercial capability and are increasingly focused on making more of what we have built – our experience, relationships, evidence and capability.

Finance has an important part to play in that next stage. We are building a function that combines strong financial control with better insight, commercial thinking and closer relationships with the organisation.

For the person joining us, that means an opportunity to help shape how Finance works – not simply reporting what has happened, but helping us understand what is changing, what comes next and what we should do about it

Iconic Resourcing is an equal opportunities employer and all applications will be treated as such.