Commercial Finance Manager
Posted 22hrs ago
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Commercial Finance Manager helping Royal Voluntary Service, a volunteer-powered charity, improve investment and retail performance. Leading business partnering, pricing, treasury and financial modelling across the organisation.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with Executive Directors and senior leaders to improve financial performance across their portfolios
- Provide commercial insight and challenge to support strategic decision-making
- Develop trusted relationships with operational leaders and drive financial accountability
- Lead the development and review of investment business cases
- Establish investment appraisal methodologies and financial hurdle rates
- Review and challenge business case assumptions
- Support Finance approval for investment business cases before governance approval
- Monitor post-investment performance through benefits realisation reviews
- Act as Finance Business Partner for the Retail portfolio
- Analyse site profitability and commercial performance
- Support investment decisions for new stores and refurbishments
- Develop portfolio performance metrics including gross profit, net profit and ROI
- Establish monthly performance reviews for underperforming sites
- Support turnaround planning and commercial improvement initiatives
- Develop pricing methodologies and review pricing models
- Support commercial contract negotiations
- Provide commercial financial support to sales activity, bids and proposals
- Analyse customer profitability and support commercial negotiations
- Develop sales dashboards and commercial KPIs
- Support the CFO in treasury management and cash investment strategy
- Analyse cash flows, investment opportunities, banking arrangements and investment returns
- Develop financial models, scenario analysis, sensitivity modelling and commercial forecasting models
- Support long-term financial planning
- Identify profitability and financial sustainability improvements
- Review commercial performance and analyse return on investment
- Support continuous improvement initiatives
Requirements:
- Professionally qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- Significant experience in commercial finance or finance business partnering
- Experience developing investment business cases
- Experience supporting commercial decision-making
- Experience in pricing and financial modelling
- Experience working with senior stakeholders
- Experience driving commercial performance improvements
- Experience supporting strategic projects
- Knowledge of investment appraisal methodologies
- Knowledge of discounted cash flow and NPV analysis
- Knowledge of pricing strategy, commercial finance and treasury management
- Knowledge of financial modelling, business partnering, performance management, sales and commercial finance
- Knowledge of financial planning and forecasting
- Skills in commercial analysis, investment appraisal, pricing analysis, data analysis and financial modelling
- Presentation, influencing and commercial negotiation support skills
- Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills
- Charity or commercial sector experience is advantageous but not essential
Benefits:
- 26 days’ holiday (pro rata) plus paid statutory Bank Holidays (pro rata)
- Up to 2 days paid volunteer leave a year
- Ten weeks’ company sick pay following successful completion of probation
- A great pension scheme
- 2 x Salary Death in Service Benefit, subject to qualification
- Enhanced Family Leave schemes
- Employee benefits package with discounts and cashback online
- 24-hour doctor line
- Financial support with dental, optical and other therapies
- Free and confidential employee assistance programme with up to six face-to-face counselling sessions
- Extensive online and on-the-job training
- Opportunities to discuss flexible working
- Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
- Chance to make a positive, lasting impact that changes lives, communities and society



















