1. Join a key high growth player in the market on their exciting journey.
2. End‑to‑end ownership, delivering strategies that boost profitability.
About Our Client
We are seeking a commercially minded finance leader to manage a team of analysts and drive portfolio profitability across the business. This role is responsible for developing financial initiatives, enhancing reporting and governance, and supporting post‑acquisition integration activities. The successful candidate will work closely with senior stakeholders across Finance, Commercial, FP&A and operational teams to deliver improved financial performance and informed decision‑making.A key part of the role is to build and develop a high‑performing analytical team, ensuring consistent standards, strong business partnering, and removal of single‑point dependencies through cross‑training and process improvement.
Job Description
Deliver an Outstanding Customer Experience
3. Deliver and demonstrate good customer outcomes across all interactions.
4. Role‑model organisational values and embed a strong Customer‑First culture within the team.
5. Promote and adhere to corporate governance standards, ensuring effective processes and a controlled working environment that minimises risk.
Team Leadership & Operational Delivery
6. Direct, prioritise and manage the workload of Analysts to ensure key deadlines for internal and external stakeholders are consistently achieved.
7. Foster a customer‑focused mindset within the Finance function, developing a class‑leading service that meets business needs.
8. Instil a proactive, high‑performance culture that ensures deliverables are accurate, timely and value‑adding, while removing single‑person dependencies through cross‑training.
9. Guide the team through data challenges, establishing effective ways of working and driving a consistent "one version of the truth" approach.
10. Provide commercial support for non‑standard pricing, early terminations and other ad‑hoc commercial requirements.
Driving Improved Profitability
11. Lead the team in designing, developing and implementing frameworks for portfolio management, profit‑share, pooled mileage and maintenance profitability.
12. Drive profitability improvements, reduce risk and ensure all balance sheet reconciliations are robust and compliant.
13. Review early termination and contract extension processes to minimise financial risk and ensure associated administrative costs are appropriately covered.
14. Identify opportunities to enhance pricing approaches and apply best‑practice methodologies across all relevant pricing activities.
15. Own deep‑dive investigations into profitability drivers, working collaboratively with operational and pricing teams to compare actual contract costs to assumptions and deliver clear, actionable insights.
Customer Retention & Portfolio Quality
16. Ensure departmental structures, processes, controls and business continuity plans are in place to support delivery of KPIs, taking action where required.
17. Maximise end‑of‑contract revenue streams including excess mileage, early terminations and profit‑share arrangements.
18. Embed a "right‑first‑time" mindset within the team to deliver accurate, high‑quality outputs for both internal and external stakeholders.
19. Undertake any additional duties as required in line with business needs.
The Successful Applicant
20. Fully qualified accountant (e.g., ACA / ACCA / CIMA)
21. Proven team management or leadership experience, ideally managing analysts or a small finance team
22. Strong FP&A or commercial finance background, with experience in modelling, forecasting, and profitability analysis
23. Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders
24. Commercially minded, ideally with experience partnering with Sales or Commercial teams to support pricing, portfolio, or customer‑driven decisions
What's on Offer
25. Salary up to £73,000
26. Car allowance or cash alternative included as part of the package
27. 20% annual bonus based on performance
28. Competitive pension scheme
29. 25+ days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
30. Strong opportunities for progression within a growing finance function
31. 50% working from home. and 50% in the office.