Senior Finance Manager - Commercial & Corporate Finance
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Senior Finance Manager - Commercial & Corporate Finance
[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is seeking a high caliber Senior Manager – Commercial & Corporate Finance to play a critical leadership role within [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Automotive's Commercial & Corporate Functions Finance team. This role has accountability for end to end financial performance management and planning across Commercial functions, with an expanded regional remit covering EMEIA. The role leads a multidisciplinary finance team and provides robust financial insight, forward looking analysis and disciplined commercial challenge.
What You'll Do
- Commercial Performance & Financial Leadership: Lead financial performance management and planning across Commercial functions, ensuring rigorous oversight of Actuals, Budgets, Forecasts and Strategic Plans. Coordinate consolidated Commercial performance analysis, including Actuals vs comparator, outlook updates and ad-hoc analysis. Provide clear, concise and executive-ready financial insight to senior stakeholders.
- Aftersales & Commercial Operations Finance Oversight: Act as the senior finance partner for Aftersales and Commercial Operations. Ensure robust cost control, investment evaluation and financial governance. Support major initiatives, transformation activity and business cases.
- EMEIA Regional Finance Leadership: Own Finance support for the EMEIA region. Lead resource allocation, budget ownership, forecasting, reporting and performance evaluation across the region. Support regional leadership with scenario planning and risk/opportunity analysis.
- Insight, Commentary & Reporting Excellence: Establish standardised reporting frameworks. Set expectations for high-quality financial commentary. Derive insight from historical performance and trend analysis. Lead forward-looking analysis to identify emerging risks and opportunities.
- People Management & Leadership: Linemanage and develop EMEIA Finance Manager, EMEIA Finance Analyst, Senior Finance Analyst – Commercial & Aftersales, and Commercial Consolidation Finance Analyst. Build a high-performance culture, coach and develop talent.
- Governance, Planning & Process Improvement: Ensure compliance with internal financial governance frameworks. Drive best-practice planning, forecasting discipline and performance management standards. Identify opportunities to improve process efficiency, insight quality and automation.
What You'll Bring
- Essential: Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with minimum 5 years post-qualification experience. Significant experience at Senior Manager level within Commercial Finance, FP&A or Business Partnering. Strong financial and analytical acumen. Demonstrable leadership of budgeting, forecasting, performance management and strategic planning. Proven ability to lead and develop high-performing finance teams. High credibility interfacing with senior leadership. Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including complex financial modelling. Strong Power BI capability. Advanced PowerPoint skills.
- Desirable: Prior Big 4 or equivalent professional services experience. Automotive, manufacturing or complex commercial environment exposure. Experience supporting EMEIA or international operations. Exposure to Aftersales, Commercial Operations or B2C/B2B commercial business models.
- Personal Attributes: Confident, credible and resilient senior finance leader. Highly organised with strong attention to detail. Comfortable operating at pace, managing ambiguity and providing constructive challenge. Proactive, collaborative and driven by continuous improvement.
What We'll Do for You
- Structured career development framework
- 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays. Annual buy & sell up to five days
- Enhanced company pension scheme
- Discretionary annual bonus award
- Private medical insurance and health cash plan
- Life assurance benefit
- Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years’ service
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- Generous parental leave policies
- A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice
Who Are We?
No restraints. No limitations. We don’t simply push boundaries. We completely rethink them. [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Automotive exists to create breath-taking performance road cars. It takes a community to do what we do. A diverse group of people with many areas of expertise, united by their passion to deliver visionary products and set new benchmarks. [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Automotive commits to equal opportunity for all. Diversity, Equality and Inclusion is at the heart of our impact. Join us on our journey.