Commercial Financial Director

Commercial Financial Director / 2 days a work based in Bristol

A senior finance leadership role partnering commercial and operational teams to drive profitable growth, margin optimisation, and disciplined decision-making. Reporting to a regional finance lead, this position provides strategic oversight, financial governance, and commercial challenge across significant client portfolios and new business activity.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead monthly financial and performance reporting across large account portfolios, including revenue, profitability, cash flow, KPIs, risks, and forecasts.

• Support margin improvement initiatives, annual planning, and rolling reforecasts.

• Play a key role in bids, pricing strategy, contract negotiations, renewals, and commercial modelling.

• Present financial performance to external stakeholders and support senior-level review meetings.

• Oversee reporting integrity, financial controls, and effective use of systems (including legacy platforms and manual models).

• Act as a strategic finance partner to senior operational leadership teams.

Candidate Profile

• ACCA qualified or fully Chartered Accountant.

• Experience managing portfolios of approximately 100m in revenue.

• Strong commercial acumen with a proactive, hands-on approach.

• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment and working through detail when required.

• Experience managing multi-currency accounts.

• Strong budgeting, forecasting, and financial business partnering capability.

• Confident working with manual spreadsheets and legacy systems.

• Proven experience across bids, pricing, and commercial modelling.