Director of Finance – Trading in Manchester

We are PXC, the UK's largest provider of wholesale connectivity. Our vision is to be the UK's #1 wholesale platform, a one stop shop provider of connectivity, voice, cloud and security underpinned by the UK's most robust, secure, resilient and reliable network. Born from the combination of Virtual1 and TalkTalk's wholesale services and national network business, we operate across our 3 core sites (Salford, London and Skopje, North Macedonia). Our mission is clear, to be the UK's best company to work for and best to work with. We believe this success is driven by the power of our employees. We empower our people to become true experts in their field who embody our values every day: we care; we challenge; we commit.

About the Role

The Director of Finance – Trading will provide strategic financial leadership across all trading activities of the organisation. This role will be accountable for revenue growth, margin optimisation, and overall trading performance, ensuring robust financial governance and delivering insight that shapes commercial strategy. Acting as a trusted advisor to the ELT and SLC and in particular Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Sales and Product Officer, the successful candidate will play a central role in driving profitable trading outcomes and enabling data driven decision making at the highest level. The position requires strong leadership, deep commercial acumen, and experience managing both UK based and offshore finance teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Financial Management & Reporting
  • Lead the month end close process for trading activities, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timeliness.
  • In conjunction with Group Accounting ensure compliance with accounting standards and completion of audit activities.
  • Deliver high quality trading performance reporting, ELT and management packs, and analysis for Board use.
  • Oversee forecasting, budgeting, and scenario planning for trading revenues and margins.
• Trading Performance & Commercial Support
  • Provide financial leadership across trading channels, ensuring alignment with PXC strategy and contractual obligations.
  • Monitor and optimise trading revenue, margin, and profitability across multiple product and partner portfolios.
  • Support commercial negotiations with financial modelling, pricing analysis, and risk assessment.
  • Drive governance and accountability for trading initiatives, ensuring sustainable value creation and return on investment.
• Business Partnering & Stakeholder Engagement
  • Act as a strategic business partner to the C Suite and SLC, with particular focus with Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Sales & Product Officer, providing challenge and insight to decision making.
  • Manage and coordinate finance support for trading activities across UK and offshore teams.
  • Represent finance with authority and credibility in commercial, trading, and executive forums.
• Leadership & Team Development
  • Lead and inspire a high performing trading finance team, instilling a culture of accountability, collaboration, and excellence.
  • Provide coaching and mentoring to build commercial finance capability across the function.
  • Champion data driven insights, automation, and continuous improvement in trading finance processes.

What will make you successful in the role

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) with substantial post qualification experience.
• Proven experience in commercial finance and trading within a large corporate or multinational environment.
• Strong expertise in financial reporting, forecasting, and analysis of trading activities.
• Demonstrated track record of revenue and margin optimisation, and commercial decision support.
• Gravitas to influence senior stakeholders, including at C Suite level.
• Ability to manage UK and offshore finance teams.
• Highly analytical, commercially astute, and detail oriented, with a strategic mindset.

How we look after our employees

• Our brand new "PXC Flex" benefit launched in January 2025, which includes Flex30, an additional 30 hours of leave every year for you to use how you wish.
• Our hybrid working policy offers you flexibility to work from home as well as connecting with your colleagues in one of our accessible and collaborative office spaces.
• A starting holiday allowance of 25 days holiday and up to 10 extra days leave via our holiday purchase scheme.
• Free private healthcare for all employees, competitive pension scheme and the opportunity to earn bonus.
• Free broadband for all employees plus gifts for major life events such as marriages and births.
• Flexible salary sacrifice scheme including dental, gym plus a huge range of shopping and leisure discounts so you can save even more cash.
• A range of inclusive employee networks to help integrate employees into life at PXC.

At PXC, we know that diversity means success and innovation. We want our workplace to reflect the communities and customers we serve. Being inclusive is part of our DNA; we are all 100% human, and we create a culture where you can truly be yourself. We're also not your usual 9-5. We are a dynamic workplace and we want to talk to you about how you like to work.