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Commercial Finance Director
Commercial Finance Director
Lead the evolution of Commercial Finance at Europe’s largest holiday rentals business — driving performance, value creation, and the future of finance.
The Opportunity
As Commercial Finance Director, you will lead Commercial Finance across Awaze and play a key role in shaping how the business creates value.
You will sit at the heart of the business, influencing both short-term trading decisions and long-term strategic choices, reporting to the CFO and serving as a member of the Finance Leadership Team. You will collaborate closely with leaders across Commercial, Marketing, Supply, Product, Technology, and Operations to:
- Improve decision quality
- Accelerate performance
- Strengthen long-term shareholder value
You will help redefine the role of finance by leveraging automation, AI, and data-driven insights, shifting the function from retrospective reporting towards predictive analytics, value creation, and strategic influence.
We are looking for a leader who is as passionate about understanding the economics of customers, homeowners, products, and distribution channels as they are about mastering the numbers themselves.
A Role with Transformation at Its Core
Finance is evolving rapidly, with advancements in automation, AI, and data reshaping how the function supports the business. This position will play a leading role in this transformation, helping build a Commercial Finance team focused on:
- Generating insight over reports
- Challenging decisions for insight
- Creating sustainable value
What You’ll Be Doing
Strategic Leadership & Stakeholder Influence
- Lead Commercial Finance across Awaze, shaping business performance through insight, challenge, and decision support that delivers:
- Profitable growth
- Cash generation
- Long-term value creation
- Partner with senior leaders in Commercial, Marketing, and Supply to optimise:
- Pricing strategies
- Promotional activities
- Marketing investment
- Demand, revenue, and profitability
- Partner with leaders across Commercial, Marketing, Supply, Product, Technology, and Operations to enhance:
- Decision quality
- Resource allocation
- Strategic prioritisation
- Shape the Commercial Finance agenda by:
- Bringing visibility to revenue, profitability, cash generation, and shareholder value drivers
- Developing a deeper understanding of customer, homeowner, destination, and channel economics
- Guide forecasting, budgeting, trading outlooks, and scenario planning, ensuring the business-aligns risks with opportunities while maintaining performance clarity.
Financial & Commercial Stewardship
- Evaluate strategic initiatives, investments, and growth opportunities, offering robust financial challenge and commercial insight
- Drive value creation and strategic decision-making with a balanced perspective at both tactical and long-term scales
- Leading the shift to a data-led, predictive approach, utilising:
- Analytical rigour
- Technological innovations
- Prioriitised value creation
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Team Development & Modernisation
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Build and develop a high-performing Commercial Finance team, recognised for:
- Commercial insight
- Strategic business partnerships
- Continuous improvement
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Modernise Commerce Finance by applying:
- Automation
- AI
- Advanced analytics
- This will accelerate the shift from reporting to predictive insight
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Play a key role in evolving the finance operating model, ensuring that finance provides smart decision-making support across all business functions.
You’ll Thrive in This Role If You:
- Emphasise value creation rather than merely reporting results
- Are intrigued by customer behaviour, economics, and profitability
- Challenge traditional logic and simplify complexity
- Achieve balance between strategic vision and operational execution
- Use data and insight to drive informed decision-making
- Are excited by the opportunity to modernise finance through:
- Technology
- Automation
- AI
We’re Looking for Someone Who Brings:
Essential Criteria
- Significant leadership experience in:
- Commercial Finance
- FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis)
- Strategic Finance
- Finance Business Partnering
- Strong commercial acumen, enabling you to translate financial insight into:
- Meaningful business decisions
- A deep understanding of:
- Customer economics
- Pricing strategies
- Channel economics
- Unit economics
- Experience supporting initiatives focused on:
- Trading strategies
- Investment decisions
- Commercial growth
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to:
- Influence senior leaders across multiple business functions
- A proven track record of:
- Leading, developing, and inspiring high-performing teams
- Demonstrating strong analytical thinking, commercial judgement, and problem-solving
- A leadership approach that is collaborative and value-creation focused
Desirable (but not mandatory) Experience
- Background in:
- Consumer goods
- Travel & hospitality
- Online platforms
- Marketplace
- Subscription-based businesses
- Experience in a:
- Private equity-backed organisation
- Experience leading:
- Finance transformation initiatives
- Automation, AI-enabled, or digitisation efforts
- Experience working in:
- International, multi-brand, or multi-site environments
- Ability to build frameworks for:
- Customer profitability
- Pricing optimisation
- Lifetime value analysis
- Experience presenting to:
- Executive Teams
- Boards
- Investors/lenders
What Success Looks Like After 12–18 Months
Within the first 12 to 18 months, you will:
- Shift commercial discussions from focusing on volume and revenue to also customer value, profitability, and long-term value.
- Build stronger insights into:
- Customer economics
- Homeowner economics
- Destination economics
- Channel economics
- Increase the use of automation, data, and AI within Commercial Finance
- Establish yourself as a trusted strategic advisor for senior business leaders.
- Foster a high-performing team focused on:
- Generating actionable insights
- Influencing decisions
- Supporting finance-led growth
- Play a pivotal role in shaping the future of the finance operating model.
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Why You’ll Want to Work at Awaze
We offer a versatile, influential, and people-first environment, where you’ll work alongside a dynamic, fast-paced, and collaborative team.
🌍 An international role: Part of a company that invests in innovation and places value on continuous growth and adaptation.
✅ Supportive culture: A successful business starts with its teams.
🏨 Benefits:
- Generous holiday discounts across our brands as a thank you for taking time to work on your own vacations
- Flexible hybrid working, allowing autonomy over how you choose to work each day
- Career opportunities, supporting your progress opportunities for vertical and horizontal movement, cross-country growth, and expansion in responsibilities.
About Awaze
Our mission is simple: To create amazing holidays with Europe’s widest choice of holiday homes.
✨ Scale and Impact:
- Over 110,000 properties across Europe, making us the largest managed vacation rentals business in the region.
- Driven by an ambition beyond size — we aim to be the best provider of holiday homes in Europe.
☁️ Future Focused:
- We’re committed to evolving with the travel industry, investing in guest and homeowner relationships, and constantly improving internal processes to ensure we deliver strong, consistent growth.
By simplifying and smartening our operations, we aim to create a business ready for whatever comes next — backed by proud, passionate, and inclusive people.
Worth Knowing
- Hybrid Working: Experience the best of both worlds — collaborative office energy with the flexibility of remote work, tailored to how WORK best fits your productivity style.
- Collaborative environment: Quick decisions, quick results — and a team-rich culture that thrives on open communication and mutual respect.
What’s Next?
If this sounds like the next meaningful step for your career, apply now. We tailor our recruitment process per role, ensuring it’s the most effective fit for you and us.
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We are fully committed to running an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. All applications receive equal consideration. If you require any adjustments or specific considerations during the interview process, simply let us know upon receiving your interview invitation. We are dedicated to ensuring accessibility at every stage.
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