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Commercial Finance Director
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Interim Commercial Finance Director
4 to 6 Month Interim Contract
£750–£850 per day
Reading Area – 3 Days per Week On-Site
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We're supporting a large, highly recognisable business that is looking to appoint an experienced Interim Commercial Finance Director during an important period of change and transformation.
This is a senior, high-impact role operating at the heart of the business, partnering closely with executive and operational leadership across multiple business units. You'll combine strong commercial finance and FP&A capability with overall financial leadership, helping the business understand performance, improve decision-making and maintain strong financial governance.
The environment is fast-paced, commercial and people-focused, so we're looking for someone who can build credibility quickly, challenge constructively and turn financial information into clear actions for the wider business.
The Role
Operating as a senior member of the finance leadership team, you'll take responsibility for commercial finance, performance management, planning and forecasting while maintaining oversight of financial reporting, controls and governance.
You'll partner senior stakeholders to understand what's really driving performance, identify risks and opportunities early, and ensure finance is actively influencing the direction of the business rather than simply reporting the numbers.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a senior finance partner to commercial and operational leadership teams, providing insight, challenge and decision support
- Lead performance management across multiple business areas, connecting financial results with the underlying commercial and operational drivers
- Provide financial leadership around pricing, investment, resource allocation, customer profitability and strategic decision-making
- Own and improve budgeting, forecasting and longer-term planning processes
- Maintain a clear forward-looking view across revenue, margin, costs, working capital, capex and cash
- Lead monthly performance reporting, ensuring management information clearly communicates what's happening, why and what action is required
- Develop reporting and dashboards that improve visibility of performance, trends, risks and opportunities
- Deliver commercial analysis across customers, contracts, projects, costs and profitability to identify opportunities for improved performance
- Support business cases, transformation projects and strategic initiatives with robust financial modelling and recommendations
- Maintain oversight of financial reporting, controls, cash management, statutory requirements and audit
- Lead, coach and develop finance teams across accounting, operations and business partnering
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What We're Looking For
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA), with ACA particularly desirable
- Significant post-qualified experience within Commercial Finance, FP&A, Business Partnering and Financial Leadership (10+ years)
- Previous experience operating at Finance Director, Commercial Finance Director or senior Head of Finance level
- Background within a large, complex, high-growth or highly recognisable organisation
- Strong commercial instincts with the ability to understand what's driving revenue, margin, profitability and cash
- Excellent budgeting, forecasting, scenario planning and performance management experience
- Comfortable retaining oversight of financial reporting, controls, statutory accounting and audit
- Comfortable working through change, transformation and evolving processes
- Clear communicator who can simplify complex financial information and tell the story behind the numbers
- Experience within PE-backed, listed or similarly fast-paced environments would be highly advantageous
- Available immediately or at very short notice
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Why Join?
This is a rare opportunity to join a brilliant, tech enabled business in a genuinely influential senior finance role. You'll work closely with senior leadership, lead a strong finance team and have significant exposure to the commercial and strategic direction of the organisation during an important period of change.
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If you're an experienced Commercial Finance Director or Finance Director who combines strong commercial thinking with robust financial leadership and you're available immediately, we'd love to hear from you.
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