Senior Finance Manager
2 days ago
Hatfield
Senior Finance Manager Location: Hatfield (hybrid working) Package: Up to £95,000 base + strong bonus + executive‑level benefits T he role This is a senior commercial leadership opportunity within a high‑velocity, multi‑billion‑pound consumer organisation operating at national scale. The business is complex, operationally intense and constantly evolving — and finance plays a central role in shaping how it grows, invests and performs. As Senior Finance Manager, you will sit at the core of strategic and operational decision‑making, acting as a critical advisor to senior leaders. This is not a traditional reporting role — it’s about driving forward commercial outcomes, challenging thinking, and ensuring financial insight is embedded into how the business is run. You’ll operate across a broad, multi‑site footprint, balancing short‑term performance with long‑term value creation, while leading and developing a high‑performing finance team. Key accountabilities • Acting as lead finance partner to senior operational and commercial leaders, influencing decisions with material financial impact, • Owning complex end‑to‑end financial planning for a large operational estate, encompassing forecasting, budgeting and scenario modelling, • Providing clear, forward‑looking insight on revenue, margins, cost drivers, labour and productivity, • Driving financial rigour into strategic initiatives, investments, pricing decisions and operational change programmes, • Leading and evolving reporting and insight capabilities to support faster, better quality decision‑making, • Playing a hands‑on role in major commercial negotiations, ensuring outcomes align with wider business objectives, • Developing and setting direction for a team of finance professionals, raising commercial capability and standards across the function, • Acting as a senior voice within the wider finance leadership community, contributing to broader finance transformation and strategyAbout you, • Fully qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) with significant post‑qualification experience, • Strong track record in senior commercial finance roles within large, complex, customer‑driven organisations, • Deep experience operating in multi‑site or high‑volume environments where pace and scale matter, • A proven business partner at senior level — comfortable influencing, challenging and shaping decisions, • Commercially astute, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and competing priorities, • Experienced people leader with a genuine interest in building high‑performing teams, • Confident communicator who can distil complex financial narratives into clear, actionable messagesWhy this role stands out, • Senior‑level influence in a high‑profile, commercially ambitious business, • Exposure to complex decision‑making at scale, • Opportunity to shape strategy, performance and capability — not just report on them, • Competitive package with base salary up to £95k plus bonus