Commercial Finance Manager in Eccles

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About the Company

Our client is a privately owned SME, UK-wide technical engineering business in a specialist, highly regulated environment. The business works with blue‑chip organisations and leading technology providers, deliberately focusing on specialist, higher‑value work rather than commoditised, volume‑driven services.

Following a period of market disruption and strategic change, the business has invested heavily in modern systems, automation and data, and is now entering a more structured phase of growth. Backed by a long‑term investment group, the company is focused on commercial discipline, operational performance and sustainable profitability.

About the Role

This Commercial Finance Manager job is a hands‑on, operationally embedded position with real influence across the business operating ƙar as the number one in Finance. The role exists to own the numbers, bring clarity to performance, and act as the Managing Director’s on‑site commercial partner during a period of leadership transition. With robust job management and finance systems now in place, the opportunity is to turn large volumes of operational data into meaningful insight that improves job costing, pricing accuracy, margin protection and engineer utilisation.

This job will own monthly management information supported by a small transactional team, whilst being close to operations, understanding how commercial decisions are made on the ground to in turn challenge assumptions to improve outcomes.

Requirements

• Qualified or highly experienced finance professional (CIMA, ACA, ACCA or QBE)
• Comfortable working in an SME environment, and getting stuck in to the detail.
• Strong commercial finance experience within operational, project‑based businesses
• Proven ability to partner and influence non‑finance stakeholders
• Hands‑on approach with experience improving costing, pricing and margin visibility
• Comfortable working with imperfect data and building structure and discipline over time
• Confident communicator with credibility at senior and operational levels

Salary, Benefits & Opportunity

The role offers a competitive salary to be negotiated depending on experience (circa 65k‑80k package), bonus, 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, pension and on‑site parking.

It also offers the opportunity to step into a genuinely influential commercial role within a well‑backed business at a key point in its journey. The successful candidate will play a central role in shaping how the business measures performance, prices work and protects margin, with clear scope to broaden responsibility as the organisation continues to evolve.

A full and comprehensive Job Details Document will be provided following role discussion.

Seniority level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

• Full‑time

Job function

• Finance

Industries

• Manufacturing and Engineering Services