Commercial Finance Lead

Finance lead for pricing, accurate costing of new products & services.

Fully remote, or based in London, Durham, Harrogate or Ryton-on-Dunsmore.

About Our Client

The College of Policing are the professional body for the police service in England and Wales. We work with everyone in policing to set standards, to share knowledge and good practice and to support the development of police officers and staff. Our mission is to drive a consistent approach across policing where the public and the service expect it, to boost professionalism and to improve leadership at every level.

Although we're a small organisation, our work has a big reach. We are uniquely placed to work both with national policing organisations and local forces to support frontline officers, staff and volunteers in their day-to-day roles.

We offer a supportive and inclusive environment for people to thrive. Our extensive flexible-working policy, employee wellbeing support, family friendly policies, employer's network for equality and inclusion membership (ENEI silver award winners), and status as a disability confident leader means everyone can bring their whole self to work.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead on commercial finance for the College of Policing. The College's expenditure is c. £90m per annum, of which c. £30m is currently funded by trading and commercial income.

As the finance lead for all aspects of the College's commercial activity, your responsibilities will include pricing & charging strategy and accurate costing of new products and services.

In addition, you will also lead on income analysis by identifying trends and supporting accurate forecasting and ensuring alignment with Home Office and HMT guidance.

The role will allow you to help shape the College's overall commercial strategy, including for international business and play a key role in turning the College into a more commercially minded organisation. As the Commercial Finance Lead you will be responsible for:

• Overseeing the College's costing and pricing model ensuring the costing and pricing strategy of new products or services is transparent, accurate and developed with a clear understanding of key guidance such as Managing Public Money. The role will also oversee the College's charging policy and core customer list.
• Influencing the reporting of regular financial and commercial analysis to the College's Executive Team and Board, demonstrating strong analytical and leadership skills to enable accurate and insightful financial forecasting.
• Contributing to medium-term financial planning and fiscal events, such as cross government spending reviews within the College, working closely with corporate development and training delivery colleagues to demonstrate the value of the College.

To be successful in this role you'll need:

• To be a Qualified Accountant (CCAB or equivalent).
• Experience of providing financial analysis and insight to support decision-making.
• A solid understanding of accounting principles.
• Experience of influencing and advising senior managers on financial issues.
• An ability to develop financial proposals and business cases and deliver value for money.
• To be effective at building working relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels and work collaboratively to achieve objectives.

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Delivering at Pace.
• Seeing the Big Picture.

This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

As part of the application process, you will be required to provide:

• A personal statement of no more than 1000 words attached to your CV that explains how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria below:

• Experience of providing financial analysis and insight to support decision-making, and a solid understanding of accounting principles and experience of applying this knowledge to a complex operational environment.
• Ability to build effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels and work collaboratively to achieve business and commercial objectives.
• Ability to analyse, summarise and communicate financial data and information clearly and accurately to a wide range of audiences including non-financial and senior colleagues.

A supporting CV outlining your job history and qualifications (including how you meet the essential criteria for the role).

Full details of the interview process will be made available to shortlisted candidates in the invite to interview.

Closing Date is 11:55pm on the 20th February 2026.

Interviews are expected to take place w/c 9th March 2026.

All dates are indicative and subject to change. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found.

Salary: £57,430 - £64,236, plus £5,074 London allowance where appropriate.

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

This post can be fully remote or based at our sites in either Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Durham, Harrogate or London.