Senior Finance Manager

Investigo
Senior Finance Manager – Commercial FinanceLocation: Welwyn Garden CitySalary: £90,000-£100,000 + 20% BonusTeam: Managing a team of 5Business: Large, listed, multi-billion-pound organisationOverview This is a high-profile, strategically critical role within the Commercial Finance function of a major listed business. Operating at the heart of commercial decision-making, the Senior Finance Manager will partner closely with the CEO, CFO and Finance Director, providing top-level insight across gross profit performance, commercial income, supplier funding and promotional investment. This is not a month-end focused role. It is a forward-looking, commercially driven position that focuses on shaping financial standards, setting targets, driving performance, and ensuring commercial rigour across a complex, fast-paced organisation. You will lead a team of five high-performing finance professionals, ensuring clarity, pace, accountability, and strong business partnering across commercial and operational stakeholders.Key ResponsibilitiesStrategic Commercial Leadership

• Own and lead reporting and insight across gross profit, commercial income, supplier funding, and promotional funding.
• Set performance standards, commercial targets, and financial frameworks to support top-level strategic decision-making.
• Work closely with senior executives (CEO, CFO, FD) to proactively highlight opportunities, risks, discrepancies, and future trends.

Business Partnering & Stakeholder Influence

• Act as the key Commercial Finance partner across trading, category, supply chain, and commercial operations.
• Challenge and influence senior leaders to ensure financial accountability, commercially sound decisions, and maximisation of financial outcomes.
• Provide insight that shapes pricing, promotional strategy, supplier negotiations, and profitability optimisation.

Controls & Governance

• Ensure robust financial controls exist across commercial income and supplier funding activities, without the role becoming month-end heavy.
• Strengthen governance around promotional processes, funding agreements, and commercial contracts.

Leadership

• Lead, coach and develop a team of five finance professionals, enabling high performance, strong analysis, and exceptional business partnering.
• Delegate effectively, set clear priorities, and build a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Data, Reporting & Insight

• Own the collation and consolidation of commercial financial data across multiple channels and teams.
• Produce high-quality reporting packs and insights for Executive Committee and Senior Leadership.
• Drive improvements in standardisation, accuracy, and consistency of commercial financial reporting.

Skills & Experience RequiredEssential

• Experience operating at Senior Finance Manager level (or above) within a large, complex, commercial, multi-billion-pound organisation.
• Strong commercial finance background with deep understanding of gross profit, supplier income, funding structures, and promotional finance.
• Proven ability to partner with and influence senior executives at pace.
• Strong leadership experience managing and developing a finance team.
• High resilience, comfort with ambiguity, and ability to work in a fast-moving, high-profile environment.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, flag issues early, and provide actionable recommendations.
• Strong financial controls understanding (but not focused on month-end).

Desirable

• Experience in retail, FMCG, consumer goods, or other high-volume commercial environments.
• Background in supporting large trading or merchandising functions.
• Experience improving reporting frameworks or building high-performing commercial finance teams.

Personal Attributes

• Commercially astute with a strategic mindset.
• Confident, articulate communicator capable of gaining trust at C-suite level.
• Proactive, problem-solving mindset with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to handle pressure, complex data, and competing priorities.
• Influential leader who brings clarity, structure, and high standards.