About this role
Job Description – Commercial Finance Assistant Manager
The Role
Reporting to the Commercial Finance Manager , you will support Commercial Finance activity across the firm’s capabilities, with a particular focus on contract profitability, revenue recognition, financial risk and performance monitoring .
You will prepare and analyse engagement-level financial information, identify significant movements and emerging risks, and undertake first-level investigation for Commercial Finance reviews. Working alongside the Commercial Finance Manager, you will ensure that potential commercial and accounting issues are identified early and escalated appropriately, engaging directly and effectively with Capability Finance teams and client-facing stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Commercial analysis: Extract and analyse data using SAC (SAP Analytics Cloud), Excel and Power BI , covering revenue, cost, margin, WIP/lock-up and other relevant financial measures.
Performance monitoring: Perform month-on-month trend analysis, proactively identifying significant movements, anomalies and engagements requiring further investigation.
- First-level investigation: Independently investigate identified movements and anomalies, understand potential drivers and provide concise initial commentary and supporting evidence for review by the Commercial Finance Manager.
- Contract reviews: Prepare analysis to support the review of significant, low-performing or potentially loss-making contracts, and maintain the Contracts list for recurring UK and Swiss Commercial Finance meetings.
Accounting considerations: Analyse information relating to complex contracts and flag potential accounting risks, including areas requiring consideration under IFRS 15 and IAS 37 .
- Risk and controls: Identify potential financial, accounting or process risks and contribute to strengthening controls across the team’s recurring activities.
Reporting and data quality: Maintain accurate supporting schedules, trackers and dashboards, performing appropriate completeness, reconciliation and reasonableness checks.
- Process improvement: Proactively identify and help implement opportunities for automation and standardisation of recurring analysis and reporting, reducing manual activity and improving the quality and efficiency of team outputs.
- Ad-hoc analysis: Undertake ad-hoc investigations and deep-dive analysis in response to identified risks, emerging issues or requests from across the wider CFO Office, presenting clear, evidence-based findings.
- Stakeholder engagement: Work closely with the Commercial Finance Manager to obtain information, resolve queries and take ownership of outstanding actions through to completion, engaging directly and effectively with Capability Finance and engagement teams.
Skills & Qualifications
- Strong numeracy and sound financial/accounting knowledge; ideally a qualified accountant or working towards a professional qualification.
- Understanding of revenue recognition, contract profitability and accounting principles across different contract types ;
Detailed knowledge of IFRS 15 and IAS 37 is preferable but not necessary.
- Advanced Excel skills and experience of creating/editing Power BI ; familiarity with SAP S4 Hana and SAC is desirable.
- Well-developed analytical skills, with the ability to identify trends, anomalies and potential financial risks.
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Ability to investigate issues and communicate findings clearly, providing insight rather than simply producing data.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Highly organised, with the ability to manage recurring deliverables to agreed deadlines.
- Proactive and self-motivated, with the flexibility to adapt to changing priorities.
What Success Looks Like
You will progressively take ownership of the data → analysis → exception identification → first-level investigation stages of the Commercial Finance process, gaining exposure to complex contracts and building commercial acumen alongside strong financial and analytical skills.
Job Description – Commercial Finance Assistant Manager
The Role
Reporting to the Commercial Finance Manager , you will support Commercial Finance activity across the firm’s capabilities, with a particular focus on contract profitability, revenue recognition, financial risk and performance monitoring .
You will prepare and analyse engagement-level financial information, identify significant movements and emerging risks, and undertake first-level investigation for Commercial Finance reviews. Working alongside the Commercial Finance Manager, you will ensure that potential commercial and accounting issues are identified early and escalated appropriately, engaging directly and effectively with Capability Finance teams and client-facing stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Commercial analysis: Extract and analyse data using SAC (SAP Analytics Cloud), Excel and Power BI , covering revenue, cost, margin, WIP/lock-up and other relevant financial measures.
Performance monitoring: Perform month-on-month trend analysis, proactively identifying significant movements, anomalies and engagements requiring further investigation.
- First-level investigation: Independently investigate identified movements and anomalies, understand potential drivers and provide concise initial commentary and supporting evidence for review by the Commercial Finance Manager.
- Contract reviews: Prepare analysis to support the review of significant, low-performing or potentially loss-making contracts, and maintain the Contracts list for recurring UK and Swiss Commercial Finance meetings.
Accounting considerations: Analyse information relating to complex contracts and flag potential accounting risks, including areas requiring consideration under IFRS 15 and IAS 37 .
- Risk and controls: Identify potential financial, accounting or process risks and contribute to strengthening controls across the team’s recurring activities.
Reporting and data quality: Maintain accurate supporting schedules, trackers and dashboards, performing appropriate completeness, reconciliation and reasonableness checks.
- Process improvement: Proactively identify and help implement opportunities for automation and standardisation of recurring analysis and reporting, reducing manual activity and improving the quality and efficiency of team outputs.
- Ad-hoc analysis: Undertake ad-hoc investigations and deep-dive analysis in response to identified risks, emerging issues or requests from across the wider CFO Office, presenting clear, evidence-based findings.
- Stakeholder engagement: Work closely with the Commercial Finance Manager to obtain information, resolve queries and take ownership of outstanding actions through to completion, engaging directly and effectively with Capability Finance and engagement teams.
Skills & Qualifications
- Strong numeracy and sound financial/accounting knowledge; ideally a qualified accountant or working towards a professional qualification.
- Understanding of revenue recognition, contract profitability and accounting principles across different contract types ;
Detailed knowledge of IFRS 15 and IAS 37 is preferable but not necessary.
- Advanced Excel skills and experience of creating/editing Power BI ; familiarity with SAP S4 Hana and SAC is desirable.
- Well-developed analytical skills, with the ability to identify trends, anomalies and potential financial risks.
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Ability to investigate issues and communicate findings clearly, providing insight rather than simply producing data.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Highly organised, with the ability to manage recurring deliverables to agreed deadlines.
- Proactive and self-motivated, with the flexibility to adapt to changing priorities.
What Success Looks Like
You will progressively take ownership of the data → analysis → exception identification → first-level investigation stages of the Commercial Finance process, gaining exposure to complex contracts and building commercial acumen alongside strong financial and analytical skills.