Commercial Finance Manager in Leeds

Step Into Your Commercial Finance Manager Role. Shape the Story of a Growing Consumer Brand. There’s a moment in every finance career where the numbers stop being the job and start becoming the story. Where you shift from “reporting the past” to “shaping the future.” From “supporting decisions” to “influencing them.” From analyst to commercial leader in the making. This role is exactly that moment.

A Medium-Sized Consumer Brand Where You’re Not Lost in the Noise. You won’t be joining a monolithic, 20,000-person global machine where your ideas need six signatures to see daylight. You’ll be stepping into a high-performing, fast-expanding consumer brand with distinct market-leading concepts - all intentionally different, all rapidly growing.

This means:

• Big enough to have scale, ambition and investment.
• Small enough that you still move the needle.

In this environment, an emerging finance leader doesn’t just “slot in.” They stand out.

The Step to Manager Is Psychological as Much as Technical. Most people think the promotion to Manager happens when you tick enough competency boxes. In reality? It happens when someone trusts you to own the commercial narrative. This role is built for someone ready to step beyond “good analyst” into “credible business voice.”

You’ll:

• Partner directly with the Exec Team
• Work closely with the CFO and Head of Finance
• Influence operators across 18+ dynamic venues
• Shape reporting, forecasting, commercial insight and strategy

This isn’t a role where you update spreadsheets someone else designed. This is a role where you design the thinking that shapes the strategy.

FP&A is the Fastest-Growing Discipline in Finance - and This Role Sits at Its Centre. Across the market, FP&A is the function gaining the most influence, visibility and progression opportunity. It’s where the future commercially-minded finance leaders are being built. Here, you’ll own:

• The company-wide forecasting model
• Commercial reporting for finance, operations and optimisation teams
• Budgeting cycles
• Data-driven decision support
• 13-week cash flow margin analysis, profitability, KPIs
• Investment cases, ROI and capex evaluation

It’s hands-on. It’s strategic. And it’s exactly the sort of experience that turns a newly-qualified or early-career accountant into a future Head of Commercial Finance.

A Brand You Can Actually Relate To. This isn’t an abstract B2B widget manufacturer. It’s a relatable brand where you can see and touch the impact of your numbers in real life, your learning curve accelerates dramatically. You’ll understand the drivers behind your insights. You’ll feel the consequences of strategic decisions. And you’ll have the commercial exposure most analysts don’t get for many years.

You’ll Be a Bigger Fish - and That Matters at This Stage of Your Career. Your influence won’t be dulled by layers of hierarchy. Your ideas won’t sit in a folder. Your work will reach the Exec Team weekly. FP&A in a medium-sized, expanding consumer business is the sweet spot:

• Enough complexity to stretch you
• Enough autonomy to let you lead
• Enough visibility to accelerate your journey to senior leadership

You’ll also line manage and develop one report - your first step into real leadership.

Who This Is Perfect For. Someone who is:

• Newly qualified ACA/CIMA/ACCA or 1–3 years post-qualified
• Already strong analytically, commercially aware, and ready for more
• Looking to build on their commercial finance/FP&A experience and into their first manager role
• Motivated by influence, responsibility and visibility
• Interested in an exciting, growing consumer brand
• Ready to step out of “support mode” and into “commercial decision-maker mode”

Salary: £50–60k - perfect for someone on the rise, not someone who’s “been there and done it.”

If you’re ready to become a commercially focused Finance Manager, this is the role that gives you the platform, the exposure, and the runway. Not in 3 years. Not “after proving yourself” a dozen times. Now. If this feels like the moment you’ve been building towards, let’s talk.

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