Senior Commercial Finance Manager

Role Overview

• Lead monthly management financial reporting, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and actionable insight.
• Prepare quarterly departmental and board reporting packages covering financial performance and critical business KPIs.
• Own the budgeting and forecasting cycles end-to-end, partnering with business unit leaders.
• Provide ad hoc financial analysis and modelling to support strategic and operational decisions.
• Have input into commercial financial reporting, including CARR (Contracted Annual Recurring Revenue) reporting and associated metrics.
• Implement and operate the Deal Desk, including development of a cost-to-serve calculator and customer profitability analysis.
• Design and execute the Sales Incentive Plan (SIP) framework, including quarterly outcome calculations and commission reconciliations.
• Act as the primary interface between commercial teams and the finance operational team, ensuring alignment and accuracy.
• Ensure billing accuracy — translating distribution volumes and contract terms into accurate customer invoicing.
• Support revenue recognition accounting and definitions, including treatment of recurring vs. non-recurring revenue, pilots, and grants.
• Simplify and maintain SIP commission framework definitions to ensure clarity and auditability.
• Partnering cross-functionally across product, technology, sales and operations to influence commercial decisions and embed efficiency.
• Help drive the data warehouse program across the business, with a focus on finance reporting automation.
• Partner with the data and engineering teams to migrate reporting from Excel-based models to automated systems (Power BI or similar).
• Leverage AI tools to identify and automate repetitive finance tasks, improving team efficiency and data quality.
• Act as a bridge between Commercial, Finance, and Operations teams — translating business needs into financial frameworks and vice versa.

Requirements

• CA/CPA qualified (or equivalent professional accounting qualification)
• 7+ years of progressive experience in commercial finance, FP&A, or finance business partnering roles
• Strong experience in SaaS or technology businesses, ideally with recurring revenue models (ARR/CARR)
• Demonstrated experience owning budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting end-to-end
• Experience with CRM systems (Salesforce preferred) and financial reporting tools
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills; experience with Power BI or similar BI tools highly regarded
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills — able to translate complex financial data for non-finance audiences
• Commercially astute with a track record of driving business performance through financial insight and analysis

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development opportunities
• Yearly L&D budgets
• Mentoring
• Hackathons
• Secondments
• Transparent growth framework
• WFH options
• Flexible hours
• Inclusive policies for families