Commercial Finance Manager

Are you passionate about sustainability and ready to make an impact with a global brand driving change in their industry? Kenny Recruit’s client is a fast-growing, international group of companies established over 15 years ago.

We are looking for an experienced Commercial Finance Manager to join the team, reporting to the Finance Director and working closely with the Managing Director, you will play a pivotal role in translating financial data into actionable commercial recommendations, helping the business make informed decisions and deliver sustainable growth. You will provide financial insight and challenge across pricing, customer profitability and margin management, combining rigorous commercial analysis with an understanding of import, freight and logistics costs, supplier landed costs and customer rebate structures.

Pay: £55,000 - £65,000 per annum (dependent on experience) + benefits and bonus

Location: London - 3 days in the office

Working hours: 9:00am - 5.30pm

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with Sales and Commercial teams on pricing, tenders and quotations, ensuring margin targets are achieved.
• Own customer and product profitability analysis, identifying margin risks and recommending pricing or cost improvements.
• Analyse freight, supplier, duty and FX movements to assess landed costs and support customer surcharge negotiations.
• Prepare monthly commercial performance reports, including volume, price, mix and cost analysis, for the Senior Leadership Team.
• Manage monthly flash reporting, mid-month forecasts and risk and opportunity submissions, liaising with senior leadership and Group Finance.
• Lead commercial input into annual budgets and rolling forecasts, working with Sales, Procurement and Operations.
• Evaluate new business opportunities, product launches, customer contracts and supply chain investments through financial modelling and risk assessment.
• Manage customer rebates, promotional spend, contract terms and accrual accuracy.
• Develop landed-cost models for new products and packaging changes, incorporating supplier pricing, freight, duty and foreign exchange.
• Drive improvements in commercial reporting, ERP/BI systems and processes.
• Support month-end close, including margin analysis and variance commentary.

About You

Essential

• Proven commercial finance or FP&A experience, ideally within packaging, FMCG, foodservice, import/distribution or consumer goods.
• Strong understanding of product costing, pricing, margin analysis and financial modelling.
• Advanced Excel skills, AI utilisation capability and experience with ERP systems; BI tools such as Power BI or Qlik advantageous.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to engage non-finance colleagues and senior leadership.
• Commercially astute, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

Desirable

• Experience in sustainable packaging or foodservice disposables.
• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Knowledge of import duties, index-linked supplier pricing or landed-cost management.
• Exposure to sustainability/ESG costing, including EPR and plastic packaging tax.
• Project management experience, particularly systems implementation.

Next Steps…

Shortlisted candidates will obviously be contacted for this specific role and if you haven’t heard from us within a week, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We'd love to give feedback to every applicant but due to the sheer volume of applications we receive, unfortunately this just isn't possible.

We will keep your CV on file to contact you with regards to future roles and any other advice to help you. Alternatively, feel free to contact us for a chat.