Commercial Finance Manager

To achieve our ambition, we are looking for colleagues who are ready to join us on this journey! Tomorrow can't wait, let's shape it together! This role leads financial planning and governance processes across the area, ensuring robust decision‑making on pricing, resource allocation, and CAPEX investments. It drives alignment between strategic priorities and financial outcomes through effective SOP cycles and business case evaluations. The role also includes leading and developing a team, while delivering strong financial insights and influencing ways of working and business direction.

Responsibilities

• Support SOP cycles from a commercial perspective, ensuring timely visibility of Key Performance Indicators across marketing investments, CAPEX, and financial guardrails.
• Drive pricing and excise strategy alignment across the DRBU, ensuring consistency with EM and global guidelines.
• Develop and implement resource allocation principles across categories, optimizing investments to deliver business targets.
• Partner with Growth Capabilities teams to embed new concepts into business‑as‑usual resource allocation processes.
• Lead CAPEX planning and prioritization, including review of investment proposals and business cases for regional approval.
• Coordinate the preparation and submission of business cases for new initiatives, ensuring compliance with governance requirements.
• Collaborate with regional, global, and market partners to support decision‑making and effective strategy implementation.
• Lead and develop a high‑performing team, fostering collaboration, capability building, and strong delivery.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in commercial finance, financial planning, or business partnering roles.
• Proven ability to work with cross‑functional and senior partners in a complex environment.
• Experience in budgeting, investment analysis, and financial governance processes.
• Exposure to business case development and evaluation.
• Proven experience in team management or leadership.

Benefits

We offer a market‑leading annual performance bonus (subject to eligibility). Our range of benefits varies by country and includes diverse health plans, initiatives for work‑life balance, transportation support, and a flexible holiday plan with additional incentives. You’ll have access to online learning platforms and personalised growth programmes to nurture your leadership skills. We prioritise continuous improvement within a transformative environment, preparing for ongoing changes.

We champion collaboration, inclusion, and partnership as the bedrock of our values. We wish to foster an environment where every individual can thrive, irrespective of factors such as gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, skills, experience, education, socio‑economic and professional background, as well as diverse perspectives and thinking styles. We recognise that our strength lies in embracing talent from all walks of life, empowering us to develop our culture of inclusivity and better achieve our business objectives. We view career breaks not as obstacles but as opportunities and encourage everyone, without hesitation, to apply. Through our Global Returners programme, we provide support to professionals seeking to re‑enter the workforce after an extended absence, be it for family care, parental leave, national service, sabbatical, or starting their own venture. Come bring your difference and see what is possible for you at BAT.