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Drive Enterprise Performance.\nAre 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.\nWhy This Role Matters?\nBusiness 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.\nWhat Your Impact Is:\nDeliver commercial insights that improve revenue growth, profitability, pricing effectiveness, and operational performance.\nBuild sophisticated financial models that support major strategic and investment decisions.\nEnhance visibility of key performance drivers across regions, service lines, sectors, clients, and projects.\nInfluence senior stakeholders with data-driven recommendations and executive-ready reporting.\nDrive consistency in performance measurement and strengthen enterprise-wide decision-making.\nIdentify value creation opportunities and support continuous improvement initiatives across finance and business operations.\nWhat You'll Bring:\nRequired\nSignificant experience in commercial finance, financial planning, business partnering, or enterprise performance management.\nAdvanced financial modelling expertise, including scenario analysis, forecasting, business case development, and sensitivity modelling.\nStrong experience translating complex financial and operational data into clear business insights.\nDeep understanding of profitability, revenue, pricing, utilization, and margin drivers.\nExperience working with large, complex datasets and multiple data sources.\nExcellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.\nAdvanced proficiency in Excel, Power BI, and financial reporting or planning tools.\nAbility to operate effectively within a matrixed, fast-paced environment.\nPreferred\nExperience within professional services, consulting, engineering, or other project-based organizations.\nExposure to finance transformation, business process improvement, or analytics modernization initiatives.\nExperience developing KPI frameworks and enterprise-wide performance reporting.\nDemonstrated success partnering with executive and senior leadership teams.\nKey Responsibilities:\n\nCommercial Performance & Analytics\nAnalyze business performance across regions, service lines, sectors, clients, and projects.\nIdentify key drivers of revenue, profitability, pricing, utilization, and backlog performance.\nDeliver performance reviews and strategic recommendations that support commercial growth.\nFinancial Modelling & Decision Support\nDevelop robust financial models to evaluate strategic opportunities and investments.\nBuild driver-based models covering revenue, pricing, margin, and productivity performance.\nConduct scenario planning and risk assessments to support decision-making.\nEnterprise Performance Management\nSupport enterprise-wide KPI reporting, forecasting, budgeting, and long-range planning activities.\nPartner with business leaders to understand performance variances and identify improvement opportunities.\nData Discovery & Insight Generation\nValidate and reconcile data from multiple systems to ensure reporting accuracy.\nTranslate complex datasets into meaningful insights, presentations, and decision-support materials.\nTransformation & Continuous Improvement\nDrive improvements in reporting, analytics, and business processes.\nSupport finance transformation initiatives, automation efforts, and best-practice adoption.\n⠀\nERM 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.\nWe 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. 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