Commercial Finance Analyst
Job description
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Your new company
Bristol based business
Your new role
A genuinely unusual opportunity has opened within the global commercial finance team of a major multinational, supporting a business unit that operates across Europe, Asia and the Americas. This is partnering daily with colleagues across Germany, Italy and wider international markets.If you're a commercially minded analyst who thrives on data, insight and global collaboration, this is a career-shaping move.The OpportunityYou'll join a high-performing commercial finance function within a complex, matrixed global organisation. The team supports a business specialising in advanced engineered materials used across critical industries - from clean energy and industrial efficiency to transportation, infrastructure and life-saving technologies.Your work will directly influence commercial decision-making, profitability and strategic planning across a worldwide customer base.
What You'll Be Doing
- Commercial partnering with senior leaders, providing analysis that challenges assumptions and drives performance
- Supporting initiatives to improve revenue, EBITA, margins and working capital
- Ensuring high-quality, IFRS-aligned reporting across global sites
- Delivering monthly P&L, Balance Sheet, Cashflow and performance insight
- Building scenario and sensitivity models to assess risks and opportunities
- Coordinating commercial finance requests across multiple regions
- Driving continuous improvement in reporting, systems, tools and data quality
- Supporting budgeting, forecasting and wider finance transformation activity
What Success Looks Like
- Timely, accurate and decision-ready insight
- Improved working capital and commercial processes
- Strong governance, consistency and data integrity
- Trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across multiple countries
What you'll need to succeed
- Strong analytical judgement and a passion for data analytics
- Advanced Excel and Power BI (or similar)
- Experience in FP&A, commercial finance or financial analysis
- Ability to operate confidently in a global, matrixed environment
- Clear, credible communication style and cultural awareness
- Continuous improvement mindset - someone who challenges the status quo
Qualifications:
- Degree educated (preferred)
- ~5 years' relevant finance experience
- Professional qualification (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) or active studier
- IFRS experience within a listed or international group is desirable
What you'll get in return
- £45,000 salary
- Up to 10% bonus
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- 37.5-hour week
- L&G salary sacrifice pension (up to 8% employer contribution)
- Life assurance (4x salary)
- Study support
- Full remote-working equipment
- Specsavers VDU vouchers
- Sharesave scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Virtual GP
- Online learning platform
- 1 DAY IN OFFICE A WEEK
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⭐ Highlight your FP&A and commercial finance experience prominently as this role specifically seeks analysts with commercial partnering skills
📊 Quantify your financial impact: 'Improved working capital by £2.3M through enhanced reporting processes'
🌐 Emphasise any international or multi-regional finance experience as you'll be working across Germany, Italy and global markets
🎯 Showcase your Power BI and advanced Excel skills with specific examples of dashboards or models you've built
🤝 Demonstrate your ability to challenge assumptions and drive performance improvements through concrete examples
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- •Led monthly P&L analysis for £15M business unit across 4 European markets, identifying £800k margin improvement opportunities through working capital optimisation
- •Built Power BI dashboards tracking EBITA performance across 12 global sites, reducing reporting time by 60% and improving data accuracy to 99.2%
- •Coordinated IFRS-aligned financial reporting for international subsidiaries, delivering consolidated accounts 3 days ahead of deadline for 8 consecutive quarters
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Your Commercial Finance Analyst role at this Bristol-based multinational presents exactly the global commercial partnering opportunity I've been seeking. My FP&A background and Power BI expertise align perfectly with your need for someone who can deliver decision-ready insight across Germany, Italy and international markets.
My background in commercial finance within complex organisations has equipped me with the analytical judgement and stakeholder management skills essential for this matrixed environment. I'm particularly drawn to the opportunity to influence EBITA performance and strategic planning across critical industries from clean energy to life-saving technologies.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›Walk me through how you would build a scenario model to assess commercial risks and opportunities
- ›How do you ensure IFRS compliance when consolidating financial data across multiple international subsidiaries?
- ›Describe your experience with Power BI - what types of commercial finance dashboards have you created?
- ›How would you approach improving working capital management across a global organisation?
- ›What's your process for preparing monthly P&L variance analysis and presenting insights to senior leadership?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time when you challenged senior leadership's assumptions using financial analysis
- ›Describe a situation where you had to coordinate finance activities across multiple countries or regions
- ›Give me an example of when you drove continuous improvement in financial reporting or processes
- ›Tell me about a time when you had to build relationships with stakeholders in a complex, matrixed organisation
- ›Describe a situation where your commercial finance analysis directly influenced a major business decision
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Tell me about a time when you challenged senior leadership's assumptions using financial analysis
Describe a situation where you had to coordinate finance activities across multiple countries or regions