“Ready to elevate your impact in Commercial Finance?”
As a frontier partner, we grow through great people, smart tech, and teamwork between humans and AI.
As a Commercial Finance Manager, you will drive commercial insight and financial performance across the business by partnering with key stakeholders in sales, operations, and leadership. This role supports strategic decision-making through robust financial analysis, forecasting, and reporting, and plays a critical part in shaping the financial direction of the company.
This role is ideal for someone with strong sales instincts, a passion for technology, and a drive to succeed.
What You’ll Do:
Business Partnering:
- Act as a trusted advisor to sales, operations, and executive teams.
- Provide commercial support for pricing decisions, margin analysis, and strategic initiatives.
- Collaborate with department heads to align financial goals with operational plans.
Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A):
- Develop and maintain Power BI dashboards for KPIs, margin reviews, and sales pipeline.
- Lead monthly revenue and COGS analysis, including EBITDA impact and covenant compliance.
- Forecast monthly revenue and COGS based on churn, growth, and new sales.
- Prepare board packs and contribute to strategic financial planning.
Sales Support:
- Calculate and report monthly sales commissions.
- Maintain and update tools like the NCE calculator.
- Support commercial decisions with data-driven insights.
Professional Services Reporting:
- Manage WIP revenue recognition, backlog forecasting, and utilisation tracking.
- Prepare monthly forecasts and board-level reporting.
Audit Compliance:
- Support audit-related tasks including accrual samples and invoice and customer documentation.
- Ensure GDPR and contractual compliance in financial operations.
Strategic Projects:
- Contribute to high-impact initiatives such as refinance projects and process automation.
- Build and implement financial controls to support ELT decision-making.
Operational Support:
- Support the Billing Manager with the billing run and assist in managing customer queries.
What We’re Looking For:
- Strong command of double-entry accounting principles.
- Advanced Excel and Power BI skills.
- Experience with standard accounting software and financial modelling.
- Excellent attention to detail and data validation.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills across UK and SA teams.
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver under pressure.
- Demonstrated history of commercial insight and strategic influence.
- Experience in FP&A, audit support, and business partnering.
- Exposure to SaaS or managed services environments is advantageous.
- Professional accounting qualification: CA (SA) or CGMA (completed or in progress).
What We Offer:
- Responsible Time off (uncapped annual leave)
- Fitness Cash Contribution
- Pension Contribution
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave
- Life Assurance, Critical Illness, and Income Protection.
- Birthday lunches, a Fun Fund, and more.
At Cloud Direct, we believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to our success. We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and strive to build a team that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We encourage candidates of all races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, abilities, and socioeconomic statuses to apply.