Senior Commercial Manager
ACCA is committed to a workplace culture which is inclusive, diverse, human and connected.
We welcome applications from candidates who meet some but not all of the criteria listed below.
We’re currently looking for Senior Commercial Manager on a full-time, fixed term basis until September 2027. This position sits within the Financial Planning & Performance team. We are flexible on the location of this role.
The Senior Commercial Manager provides strategic commercial and financial advice across ACCA, supporting strategic projects, product development, new business investment, and opportunities for commercial improvement. The role provides robust financial analysis and modelling to support effective decision-making, assess commercial viability and deliver sustainable financial outcomes for the organisation.
The Job
Reporting to the Head of Financial Planning & Performance on a day-to-day basis, you’ll be involved in the following:
- Developing fit-for-purpose financial models which form the basis of financial business cases for multi-year strategic projects and smaller scale investments
- Acting as the Finance gatekeeper for new business investment initiatives
- Supporting financial/commercial discussions with external suppliers, working with our Procurement and Contract Management team to ensure that ACCA continually achieves value for money in all external relationships
- Building an expert knowledge of the ACCA customer journey and core products, and leading activities including development of customer-focussed modelling to generate actionable insights
- Acting as Secretary for the Discount Governance Group (DGG), the group is responsible for monitoring discount consumption on core income lines, approving new discounting initiatives and reviewing the performance of existing initiatives
- Supporting the wider Finance team in any activities necessary to ensure the efficient running of the department.
The Person
We’re looking for someone who can demonstrate:
- Commercial experience gained within a multi-channel or a high-volume customer business
- Ability to develop financial models from scratch which are tailored to the particular task and can be adapted to add more or less complexity as required.
- Strong ability to influence others, including those at levels above
- Experience of working within a matrix organisation structure to achieve common goals
- Direct experience of supporting delivery of large scale change (£10m+)
- Experience working collaboratively with and the ability to challenge senior stakeholders.
Our Benefits
We strive to create an environment where you can prioritise your wellbeing and so have designed our benefits to give you the flexibility and power to do so. Our core benefits include private healthcare, life assurance and income protection as well as a fantastic defined contribution pension scheme.
We provide an employee assistance programme and are proud to offer a financial wellbeing tool called Nudge, to our employees.
Our flexible benefits platform gives you the power to customise your benefit plan to suit your needs, you can choose to add a number of benefits including extra holidays, PMI family cover, cycle to work, Travel and Gym loans and more! You can also enjoy exclusive access to our discount site and wellbeing centre platform.
We are committed to equal opportunities across our recruitment activities and have a real commitment to ensuring the inclusion and well-being of all employees. We have a blended approach to working to support our employees to balance the needs of their job with other aspects of their life.