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Senior Commercial Finance Manager - Tech-Focused Retail | Hertfordshire (Hybrid)\n£75,000 - £85,000 + 20% Bonus + Excellent Benefits\n\nOur client, a forward-thinking consumer and retail technology business, is seeking a Senior Commercial Finance Manager to help drive strategic growth and innovation across its digital channels and omnichannel platforms. This is a key commercial leadership role, supporting the integration of finance and technology to optimise performance in a fast-paced, data-rich retail environment.\n\nThis position has a clear path to Head of Finance within 18-24 months, offering a high-impact role within a business that values digital transformation, data-driven decisions, and agile financial leadership.\n\nKey Responsibilities:\n- Partner with Technology and Marketing Leaders to shape long-term digital growth strategies, identifying smart investments in brand, platform development, and customer experience innovations.\n- Evaluate digital pricing, promotional mechanics, and value architecture to unlock profitable growth across eCommerce and retail tech channels.\n- Lead commercial financial planning and forecasting to support data-driven decision making, particularly in relation to digital product performance and ROI on tech investments.\n- Own financial input into brand and digital roadmap planning, helping product and digital brand teams build strategies rooted in commercial viability.\n- Maintain clear insight into trading and digital performance, including customer behaviour analytics, channel performance (e.g. D2C, marketplaces), and competitor landscape shifts.\n- Develop robust business cases for technology investments, including platforms, tools, digital innovation, and marketing tech - ensuring returns meet both consumer impact and financial hurdle rates.\n- Influence strategic decisions through compelling commercial insights, backed by data and aligned to evolving technology and customer trends.\n- Build and evolve advanced financial modelling tools and dashboards, enhancing speed and quality of decision-making across business functions.\n- Model innovation-led initiatives, particularly those that leverage technology (e.g. AI-powered personalisation, subscription models, fulfilment automation), to assess margin and scalability potential.\n- Be a mentor and leader to junior finance and cross-functional team members, setting a high bar for strategic, tech-savvy financial business partnering.\n\nAbout You:\n- Fully qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) with a strong background in commercial finance.\n- Experience working in technology-led retail, consumer digital, or eCommerce environments highly advantageous.\n- Able to demonstrate strong business partnering with marketing, digital, and product teams.\n- A strategic thinker with a passion for performance improvement, innovation, and leveraging data/technology to unlock growth.\n- Comfortable working in fast-paced, digitally evolving environments where customer expectations and platform capabilities shape decisions.\n\nThis is a fantastic opportunity to join a tech-driven retail brand at a pivotal time in its digital and commercial evolution. If you're looking to play a key role in the transformation of finance within a business that blends retail heritage with technology innovation, we'd love to hear from you.\n\nAGY - Vitae Financial Recruitment\nWe Exist To Be Different - Membership NOT Registration

Network Engineering Manager – In this position you will work alongside the Project Management and Engineering teams. There will be opportunities to work with the latest technologies, influence design and deliver systems to the highest quality. You will be responsible for consulting on design, configuring network hardware, commissioning, and delivery of a project’s network and telecommunications systems as a department lead. It is essential that you are an excellent communicator with good Client facing skills and have strong network engineering experience and excellent knowledge of wireless networks, fibre optics and telecoms systems. This is a field-based role that also requires international travel. The position will see you working on systems that are deployed in the high end residential market and within the integration of bullet proof systems in the world of high end superyachts. • Consult on network design and architecture for yacht and residential projects., • Configure, deploy and commission network infrastructure (routing/switching, Wi-Fi, firewalls, WAN)., • Own technical quality: testing, fault-finding, and final sign-off readiness., • Produce and maintain accurate documentation (as-built, configs, IP plans, test results)., • Provide practical escalation support during build and commissioning., • Lead and support a team of engineers on live projects (allocation, guidance, standards, coaching)., • Manage interfaces with shipyards, builders, owners’ reps, and third-party contractors., • Report progress, risks, and blockers clearly to the Project Manager., • Train and upskill engineers—raise consistency across the department., • CCNA – essential, • CCNP – desirable (or equivalent experience), • Strong experience designing and delivering networks end-to-end., • VLANs, trunking, STP fundamentals, DHCP/DNS, routing basics (OSPF preferred; BGP a plus)., • QoS and traffic shaping principles (especially important for voice/video)., • Multicast/IGMP basics (helpful in AV-over-IP environments)., • PoE design awareness (budgets, switch selection, edge device demands)., • Enterprise Wi-Fi deployment and management (controller-based or equivalent)., • Wi-Fi surveys, coverage analysis and heatmaps (Ekahau or equivalent)., • Commissioning approach that proves performance, not just “looks connected”., • Firewall configuration and deployment (Cisco, Fortinet, Check Point, Sophos, WatchGuard, Palo Alto). • Solid fundamentals: segmentation (owner/guest/crew/IoT), secure remote access/VPN, ACL deployment., • Multi-WAN / SD-WAN style solutions and path selection (Peplink, Celerway, Kerio, Sophos, Cisco, Kognitive networks, etc.)., • 3G/4G/5G routers/modems, ISP management, VSAT connectivity constraints., • SIP/VoIP fundamentals (Session Initiation Protocol) and IP telephony systems., • Fault-finding and commissioning are compulsory., • Comfortable using hand tools and network/telecom test equipment., • Fibre experience: handling and testing basics (power levels/links) — OTDR knowledge a plus. General, • Strong English (written and spoken) and confident client-facing communication. YOU MUST BE LIVING IN THE UK AND ALLOWED TO WORK HERE LEGALLY AND SHOW A CLEARLY DEFINED SKILL SET WITHIN THE CV HERTS HERTFORDSHIRE BEDS BEDFORDSHIRE BUCKS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE LONDON IT IOT NETWORK CISCO FIREWALL WIFI WI-FI CCNA CCNP WIRELESS VPN WAN VSAT ROUTERS

The Technical Programme Manager is accountable for delivering a portfolio of complex, large-scale store hardware and infrastructure programmes that underpin critical Tesco business priorities. Build a deep technical understanding of infrastructure architecture and the store operations it supports, e

£46,871 to £50,998 inclusive annual salary + £5,000 market supplement + up to 19.7 percent employer pension contribution Permanent, Full-time (37 hours per week) Flexible working options (including hybrid) About the role If you’re passionate about improving homes, delivering high-quality building surveying services, and making a difference to the lives of residents in our community, we’d love to hear from you. We are looking for an experienced Senior Building Surveyor to join our Housing Repairs team. This opportunity has arisen following the internal promotion of the previous postholder, demonstrating our strong commitment to staff development and progression. You will carry out building surveys and diagnose complex defects, manage repair, maintenance and investment projects up to £3m and prepare specifications, tenders, and act as Contract Administrator under JCT forms. You will also lead on estate inspections, minor improvement works, and communal area issues and provide technical advice to colleagues, contractors, and residents. In addition, as a Snr Surveyor you will supervise junior surveyors and support their development. You will also ensure robust health & safety compliance, including CDM and asbestos regulations, support insurance and compensation cases and support in resolving formal complaints. You will be participating in the out-of-hours repairs standby rota and supporting emergency planning when required. About you With a degree or professional qualification in Building Surveying (or substantial equivalent experience), you must have strong technical knowledge of building defects, housing and construction legislation, health & safety and landlord obligations. Previous experience of managing projects, preparing tenders and JCT contract management is also essential for this role. You will also be managing complex budgets, supervising staff and handling challenging customer situations. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and high standards of customer service to our customers are key for this role. A valid UK driving licence with access to a vehicle and an IOSH qualification (or willingness to achieve within 6 months) are also required. RICS / CIOB membership and working knowledge of HHSRS would be desirable. Join us in making St Albans City and District carbon neutral by 2030, guided by our Sustainability and Climate Crisis Strategy, we put the environment at the heart of every decision. We live our values—trust, care, confidence, collaboration, and customer focus—while delivering sustainable services, reducing environmental impact and making a difference. St Albans is a unique English Cathedral City with a colourful history which can be seen in the Roman remains and variety of beautiful architecture, heritage sites and conservation areas. Set within green belt, off the M25, A1M and M1 the District includes a cathedral, vibrant city centre and thriving villages. Our centrally located offices in the city are near to the station (London St Pancras 20 minutes), shops and restaurants. In short it is a great place to work. In addition to working within a great team and a comprehensive salary you will have access to: 30.5 days basic annual leave (increasing with service) + bank holidays. Local Government Pension Scheme with current employer contribution up to 19.7 percent employer contributions Flexible working options Staff Parking Permit Reimbursement of professional fees Comprehensive development and training Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres Access to discounts and benefits via online platform Additional Information Disability Confident: We are proud to be a disability confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets all the essential criteria for the post. Safeguarding: This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Check. English Fluency: The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). For an informal discussion, please contact Gareth Heavey, Contracts Manager. A detailed job description and person specification are published on the advert for this role. The person specification sets out the criteria we use to assess applicants. The Council reserves the right to reject applicants at the shortlisting stage, where the application process has not been completed correctly. Closing date for applications: 19th April 2026 Interviews are scheduled for w/c: 27th April 2026 NOTE: Interviews are conducted throughout the application process. We reserve the right to close the vacancy at an earlier date and we strongly encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible. REF- (Apply online only)