Job Description

Commercial Finance Manager

Location: London (Hybrid)

Contract: Permanent

Reporting to: Group Finance Director, Enterprise Performance

Shape Strategic Decisions. Drive Enterprise Performance.

Are you a commercially minded finance leader who thrives on turning data into business impact? This is an opportunity to move beyond traditional reporting and play a pivotal role in influencing high-value commercial decisions across a global organization. As Commercial Finance Manager, you'll partner with senior leaders, uncover performance drivers, identify growth opportunities, and help shape the strategic direction of the business through insight-led decision-making.

Why This Role Matters?

Business leaders depend on timely, accurate, and actionable financial insight to make critical decisions. In this role, you'll be at the center of enterprise performance management, helping the organization understand what drives growth, profitability, and operational excellence. Your analysis and recommendations will directly influence strategic investments, commercial initiatives, transformation programs, and long-term business performance.

What Your Impact Is:

• Deliver commercial insights that improve revenue growth, profitability, pricing effectiveness, and operational performance.
• Build sophisticated financial models that support major strategic and investment decisions.
• Enhance visibility of key performance drivers across regions, service lines, sectors, clients, and projects.
• Influence senior stakeholders with data-driven recommendations and executive-ready reporting.
• Drive consistency in performance measurement and strengthen enterprise-wide decision-making.
• Identify value creation opportunities and support continuous improvement initiatives across finance and business operations.

What You'll Bring:

Required

• Significant experience in commercial finance, financial planning, business partnering, or enterprise performance management.
• Advanced financial modelling expertise, including scenario analysis, forecasting, business case development, and sensitivity modelling.
• Strong experience translating complex financial and operational data into clear business insights.
• Deep understanding of profitability, revenue, pricing, utilization, and margin drivers.
• Experience working with large, complex datasets and multiple data sources.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, Power BI, and financial reporting or planning tools.
• Ability to operate effectively within a matrixed, fast-paced environment.

Preferred

• Experience within professional services, consulting, engineering, or other project-based organizations.
• Exposure to finance transformation, business process improvement, or analytics modernization initiatives.
• Experience developing KPI frameworks and enterprise-wide performance reporting.
• Demonstrated success partnering with executive and senior leadership teams.

Key Responsibilities:

Commercial Performance & Analytics

• Analyze business performance across regions, service lines, sectors, clients, and projects.
• Identify key drivers of revenue, profitability, pricing, utilization, and backlog performance.
• Deliver performance reviews and strategic recommendations that support commercial growth.

Financial Modelling & Decision Support

• Develop robust financial models to evaluate strategic opportunities and investments.
• Build driver-based models covering revenue, pricing, margin, and productivity performance.
• Conduct scenario planning and risk assessments to support decision-making.

Enterprise Performance Management

• Support enterprise-wide KPI reporting, forecasting, budgeting, and long-range planning activities.
• Partner with business leaders to understand performance variances and identify improvement opportunities.

Data Discovery & Insight Generation

• Validate and reconcile data from multiple systems to ensure reporting accuracy.
• Translate complex datasets into meaningful insights, presentations, and decision-support materials.

Transformation & Continuous Improvement

• Drive improvements in reporting, analytics, and business processes.
• Support finance transformation initiatives, automation efforts, and best-practice adoption.

ERM is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to thrive, it’s an essential part of what makes ERM a great place to build a career and helps us create better solutions for our clients.

We welcome talent from all backgrounds and provide equal opportunities for every candidate. If you have a disability, are neurodivergent, or need accommodations during the selection process, we’re here to support you. Our commitment doesn’t stop at hiring. Once you join us, we’ll ensure you have the tools, support, and adjustments needed to succeed and feel a true sense of belonging. Learn more about our Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging (DIB) efforts by visiting our website or exploring our 2026 Sustainability Report.