Commercial Finance Manager - Global Marketing & PR

This role is responsible for delivering financial insight, control, and strategic decision support across Global Marketing
, Brand
, Communications
, and Product Strategy
. The successful candidate will ensure that investment decisions are financially sound, performance is well understood, and spend is aligned with corporate objectives.

This position plays a critical role in driving marketing ROI, supporting product lifecycle planning, and enabling data‑driven decision‑making across future product and brand strategy initiatives.

• Act as finance partner to Global Marketing, Brand, PR/Comms and Product Strategy teams.
• Provide clear insight into campaign effectiveness, ROI, market performance, and product‑related decisions.
• Support leadership in evaluating brand investments, sponsor ships, events, digital initiatives, and long‑term product planning.
• Influence senior stakeholders to drive disciplined budget management and commercial outcomes.

• Own monthly reporting for relevant cost centres and strategic programmes.
• Deliver accurate management accounts, commentary, and KPI reporting.
• Lead responses to audit queries and ensure strong financial governance.
• Track marketing spend, commitments, accruals and forecast accuracy.

• Coordinate budgeting and forecasting cycles for Global Marketing and Product Strategy.
• Develop robust financial plans, challenge assumptions, and present consolidated results to senior leadership.
• Support development of product lifecycle financials, market outlooks, and strategic business cases.
• Improve cost transparency, ROI measurement, and marketing Efficacy.
• Strengthen processes around marketing approvals, agency spend, and product strategy governance.
• Drive data accuracy and reporting improvements in collaboration with FP&A and Commercial teams.
• Supervise and mentor Finance Analyst supporting the function.
• Ensure development of technical skills, commercial understanding, and stakeholder engagement capability.

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA).
• Big 4 background advantageous due to analytical rigour and stakeholder engagement experience.
• Strong financial planning, forecasting, and business partnering background.
• Experience supporting Marketing, Commercial, Product or Brand environments preferred.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Comfortable with large datasets, financial modelling, and ROI frameworks.
• Commercial & strategic mindset
• High analytical capability & insight generation
• Relationship building & influencing
• Rigour, governance & attention to detail
• Leadership & coaching mindset

We offer a wide – ranging benefits package, which includes:

• 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holiday. Annual buy & sell up to five days
• Enhanced company pension scheme
• Discretionary annual bonus award
• Private medical insurance and health cash plan
• Life assurance benefit
• Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years’ service
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• Generous parental leave policies
• A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice

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