Senior Commercial Finance Manager

About Us

Avenir Collective - Building the future of beauty, personal care and lifestyle brands.

We're building a new kind of consumer brand platform focused on trusted products, long-term value and meaningful growth. If you're excited by building brands, solving problems and working alongside collaborative, driven people, we'd love to hear from you.

As a Senior Commercial Finance Manager in our Finance team, you will play a key role in supporting the Group Finance Director and wider leadership team by delivering accurate, timely and insightful financial reporting. Your main focus will be leading the preparation of Group reporting, budgeting and forecasting processes, ensuring financial information is clear, meaningful and supports better business decisions through close collaboration with stakeholders across the organisation.

This role is ideal for someone with strong commercial finance expertise and a proactive, analytical mindset
, who enjoys working closely with senior stakeholders and using financial insight to influence business performance. Your work will directly impact how we understand our performance, manage costs and identify opportunities for growth across the business.

• Full-time, permanent role based at our modern office in Holborn, London
• Working Hours:
  
  40 hours per week, 9 am to 6 pm with a one-hour lunch
• This position is hybrid, with the expectation to go to the London office at least 2 or 3 days per week

• Prepare the Group's monthly management reporting.
• Produce reporting for the Executive Leadership Team and Board.
• Analyse revenue, gross margin, operating costs and EBITDA.
• Prepare clear commentary explaining business performance, key movements, risks and opportunities.
• Investigate queries from the Group Finance Director and senior leaders, providing clear answers and recommendations.
• Continue to improve reporting, KPIs and dashboards.

• Support the forecasting process.
• Support the annual budget process.
• Prepare financial models and scenario analysis.
• Monitor performance against budget and forecast, explaining key variances.
• Highlight risks and opportunities early.

• Prepare the Group's operating expense reporting.
• Work closely with budget holders to review monthly spend.
• Lead regular meetings with budget holders to review performance and forecasts.
• Prepare monthly operating expense forecasts.
• Investigate and explain significant variances.
• Identify opportunities to improve cost control and reporting.

• Build strong relationships with stakeholders across the business.
• Provide financial support and challenge where needed.
• Help managers understand their financial performance.
• Support business cases and commercial decisions with clear financial analysis.

• Work with the Financial Control team to ensure accurate month-end reporting.
• Prepare monthly variance analysis and supporting commentary.
• Support ad hoc analysis and reporting as required.

• Improve reporting, forecasting and planning processes.
• Look for opportunities to automate and simplify reporting.
• Help improve the quality and consistency of financial information.

• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified with strong experience in Commercial Finance, FP&A or Finance Business Partnering roles.
• Proven experience preparing management reporting, budgets, forecasts and financial models in a commercial environment.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex financial information and translate it into actionable insights.
• Confident communicator with experience partnering with senior stakeholders and explaining financial concepts to non-finance teams.
• Advanced Excel skills, with experience using financial systems such as Net Suite and reporting tools such as Power BI desirable.
• Experience working within consumer products, retail, e-commerce or another fast-paced, high-growth environment.

• Produce accurate and reliable Group reporting.
• Deliver high-quality budgets and forecasts.
• Build strong relationships with budget holders.
• Become the first point of contact for commercial finance…