Senior Manager - Commercial Finance

Senior Manager – Commercial Finance (Technology and Data)

Function:
Finance

Location:

London, Peterborough

So are we. Join Compare the Market and help to make financial decision making a breeze for millions.

At Compare the Market, we’re a purpose-driven business powered by tech and AI. We’re building high-performing, results-driven teams with the skills, mindset, and ambition to deliver outcomes ry role here plays a part in driving our mission forward, and we create an environment where you can bring your authentic self, grow a truly characterful career, and see the direct impact of your work on the lives of our customers.

We’ve carved a meerkat-shaped niche and we’re looking for ambitious, curious thinkers who thrive in a fast-moving, high-impact environment. If you love accountability, embrace challenge, and want to make a real difference, you’ll fit right in.

As our Senior Commercial Finance Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Compare the Market's Technology, Data and AI capabilities. This role sits at the intersection of Finance, Technology, Data, Product and Delivery, partnering with senior leaders to ensure capability investments are strategically aligned, commercially robust, and deliver measurable value for both our customers and the business.

More than a traditional finance partnering role, you'll help shape where and how we invest. Working across Technology, Data, Product and Delivery, you'll define value before investment decisions are made, support prioritisation across competing initiatives, and ensure delivery activity translates into meaningful customer, commercial and strategic outcomes.

• Partnering with senior leaders across Technology, Data, Product and Delivery to shape investment decisions that maximise customer, commercial and strategic value.
• Be at the heart of our agentic AI delivery – helping us magnify what’s working and triage what’s not.
• Drive a strong return-on-investment (ROI) focus across Technology and Data, ensuring investment decisions are grounded in measurable business outcomes.
• Help determine where Product, Technology, Data, Delivery and agentic capacity should be focused to maximise business impact and strategic outcomes.
• Help define, validate and measure value upfront, developing robust KPIs, business cases, financial models and benefit-tracking frameworks that balance innovation, efficiency, risk and long-term capability development.
• Support the Lead Time to Value agenda by connecting delivery activity, KPI movement and commercial outcomes, enabling faster realisation of business benefits.
• Partner with Capability Missions to prioritise investments, balancing customer value, strategic objectives, delivery capacity and commercial return.
• Bring commercial challenge to capability investments where value may be indirect or realised over a longer time horizon, including Data Platforms, AI capabilities, measurement platforms and technology transformation initiatives.
• Provide clarity on all returns, e.g. by understanding and evaluating Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), identifying opportunities for simplification, optimisation and reinvestment.
• Quantify and communicate the commercial value of data, AI, automation and digital capabilities, translating technical investment into customer and financial outcomes.
• Build trusted relationships across Finance, Technology, Product, Data and Executive Leadership teams, providing commercial insight that supports confident strategic decision making.

You'll bring financial experience and acumen from within a technology-led or digital organisation, with a proven ability to influence strategic investment decisions and deliver measurable business value.

You'll have a strong understanding of Technology, Data, Product and Delivery, and enjoy partnering with senior leaders to solve complex commercial challenges. Experience supporting technology portfolios, data products, delivery enablement, portfolio management or large-scale capability investment programmes would be highly advantageous.

You’ll naturally think in terms of value creation, prioritisation and…