Senior Commercial Finance Manager

Trainline; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading travel technology company is seeking a Senior Commercial Finance Manager to drive strategic insights and performance across regions. This hybrid role involves reporting, advising on financial growth, and leveraging data for decision-making. Ideal candidates should have experience in commercial finance roles, strong analytical skills, and proficiency in SQL. Enjoy attractive perks like private healthcare and career growth opportunities. Join us for an exciting journey in shaping the future of travel!

Benefits

Private healthcare

Dental insurance

Generous work from abroad policy

2-for-1 share purchase plans

EV Scheme

Extra festive time off

Excellent family-friendly benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in digital, ecommerce, technology or retail environments is preferred.
• Strong analytical skills required.
• Ability to work independently and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Own weekly and monthly performance reporting for regions.
• Partner with country managers for financial modeling.
• Explore new commercial opportunities.

Skills

Experience in a commercial, financial or analytical role

Strong commercial awareness

Ability to turn complex analysis into clear insights

Proactive, hands-on approach

Experience in modelling and forecasting

Strong SQL capability

Job description

About us

We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels.

Great journeys start with Trainline 🚄

Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 125 million monthly visits and £5.9 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, eco-friendly and affordable as it should be.

Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey.

Senior Commercial Finance Manager

Location: London (Hybrid) Salary: £70-80k

The Role

As a Senior Commercial Finance Manager, you will be a key strategic partner to our International Consumer business. You will provide high quality, actionable insight that guides decision making across regions, building strong relationships with stakeholders from Commercial to Data Science to Supply.

This role offers the chance to influence performance across a rapidly expanding part of Trainline and to help shape how we use data to discover new opportunities. You will also help foster a culture of continuous improvement, working closely with our Data teams to develop innovative ways of unlocking insight.

What You Will Be Doing

• Owning weekly and monthly performance reporting and analysis for specific international regions, covering Net Ticket Sales through to Gross Margin and Marketing performance.
• Partnering with country managers and supply managers to provide advice, insight and financial modelling that supports net sales and revenue growth.
• Building a clear view of our markets using internal and external data to support long term planning.
• Exploring and evaluating new commercial opportunities, including new products, sales levers and cost efficiencies.
• Identifying risks to net sales or revenue, communicating these clearly and supporting the business to get back on track.

This is a career defining role for someone passionate about the commercial side of Finance who wants to influence the growth of an international consumer business. We support progression and, if you choose, will sponsor your finance qualifications.

What We Are Looking For

We want creative thinkers with low egos who thrive in fast moving, growth environments.

You will bring:

• Experience in a commercial, financial or analytical role, ideally within digital, ecommerce, technology or retail.
• Strong commercial awareness and a passion for drawing insight from data.
• The ability to turn complex analysis into clear, compelling insight for stakeholders at all levels.
• A proactive, hands on approach and comfort working independently to tight deadlines.
• Experience in modelling and forecasting, and familiarity with analytical techniques.
• Strong SQL capability, with the ability to write queries confidently and use them regularly to obtain, manipulate and analyse data.

More information

Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, an EV Scheme to further reduce carbon emissions, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits.

We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one!

We operate a hybrid model to work and ask that Trainliners work from the office a minimum of 60% of their time over a 12-week period. We also have a 28-day Work from Abroad policy.

Values

• Think Big – We're building the future of rail
• Own It – We focus on every customer, partner and journey
• Travel Together – We're one team
• Do Good – We make a positive impact

We know that having a diverse team makes us better and helps us succeed. And we mean all forms of diversity - gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought. That's why we're committed to creating inclusive places to work, where everyone belongs and differences are valued and celebrated.

Interested in finding out more about what it's like to work at Trainline? Why not check us out on LinkedIn, Instagram and Glassdoor!