Manager - Commercial Finance

Overview

Lead the commercial finance function across assigned practices within the Americas Planning & Reporting Centre of Excellence, managing an extended team of 7+ commercial finance professionals and serving as a business partner to onshore stakeholders.

What you'll do

• Lead commercial finance activities across assigned practices, including pricing, revenue and profitability management, contract reviews, commercial governance, accounts receivable oversight, client margin management, and intercompany recharge processes.
• Manage, mentor, and develop a team of commercial finance professionals across multiple brands and practices.
• Ensure accuracy, compliance, and timely delivery of all commercial finance activities performed by the team.
• Provide guidance and support in resolving complex business issues, managing escalations, and driving effective decision-making.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with onshore stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Drive process improvements, operational excellence, and adherence to financial controls and governance standards.
• Review and advise on strategic financial plans in partnership with business leaders.
• Provide insight and challenge through financial analysis to enable business partners to make key decisions and achieve targets.
• Support client and vendor negotiations by providing analytical insight on pricing, early payment discounts, rebates and volume commitments.
• Analyse consolidated budgets and forecasts, and provide interpretation, insight and guidance.
• Identify and drive operational improvement through analysis of financial plans, management information and performance.
• Work with business leaders to understand short, medium and long-term resource requirements and their impact on forecasts and budgets.
• Support analysis of client profitability and identify and support initiatives to improve profitability and margin.
• Support the Operational Finance Director, Financial Controller and/or Market FD with high quality and insightful analysis.
• Support the implementation of best practice financial planning techniques and initiatives to improve the quality and consistency of business and finance data.
• Revenue and cost forecasting, variance analysis and tracking.
• Set margin and profitability targets and analyse performance, identifying and monitoring drivers of cost and revenue variances between actual and forecast/budget.
• Optimise pricing and staff plans, including time reporting and staffing reconciliations.
• Review contracts in partnership with the Legal department and manage contract compliance.
• Manage working capital, including WIP, AR and media liability reporting.
• Oversee intercompany agreements and manage cross charges.
• Support executive business reporting, including the monthly financial package.
• Supply ad-hoc financial information and analysis, and develop, maintain and distribute ad-hoc reports and financial models.
• Work with client teams to keep revenue tracking systems up to date.
• Assist Commercial Finance Business Partners with special projects.
• Facilitate management of revenue forecasts in MSFT D365 and pipeline within Salesforce.
• Coordinate client audits and support RFI/RFP responses.
• Support overall AR and write-off management processes.
• Handle highly confidential information with high ethical standards, discretion and sound judgement.

What you'll need

• Qualified CA, ACCA or CPA with 7+ years of progressive experience in commercial finance, financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel (pivot tables, advanced formulas, modelling).
• Familiarity with financial systems and tools such as D365, SAP BPC, Workday, Tableau, and Concur.
• Understanding of commercial aspects and good knowledge of forecasting and reporting.
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail and the ability to manage complex data.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Strategic thinker with a proactive, solutions-oriented approach to problem-solving.
• Adaptability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Demonstrated ability to drive process improvements and lead teams through change.
• Superior organisational skills, outstanding attention to detail, and strong project management and customer service skills.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
• Self-motivated, independent thinker with a proactive approach to problem solving.
• Ability to manage multiple projects with strong follow-through.
• Proven capability to navigate complex business situations, manage escalations, and provide comprehensive business support across the team.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively across a broad range of business finance activities.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India (Americas PRCoE).
• Working hours: 3:00 PM to 12:00 AM IST, aligned with partial UK and US business hours; flexibility to adjust based on business requirements.
• Employment: Full time, permanent.
• Reports to the Associate Director, Americas Planning & Reporting Centre of Excellence.