Commercial Finance Manager

City of Wolverhampton Council

Commercial Finance Manager

Salary - £44,075 - £49,282

Grade: 7

Employment:
Permanent - Full time - 37 hours

This is an exciting time to join us, as Procurement and Commercial have recently become one team, offering new opportunities to develop our commercial and best practice culture.

We have been working with services undertaking commercial assessments and providing advice and guidance on commercial practice. We are now looking to increase this support to assist more services by recruiting a Commercial Finance Manager to join the team.

We are looking for someone who already has an appreciation of operating commercially in the public sector, has a financial background and with experience of commercially assessing business options to provide solution focussed recommendations and insightful advice and guidance.

• Tosupportservices to apply good commercialfinancial managementto address the priorities outlined‘Our Future Council’ workstreamsto include identifying and mitigating risk to protect the Council’s interests
• Undertaking commercial reviews and assessments of various areas, such as, traded services, SLAs, fees and charges, business cases, options appraisals, pricing mechanisms, service offers, tosupportservices to optimise commercial outcomes
• Offering advice and guidance on commercial and contract management practices in line with policies and procedures and provide training to improve commercial awareness
• Horizon scanning, informationsharing,identifyinginnovative and alternative approaches to achievegood valueand best practice

• A goodunderstandingof commercial practice and how this can be appliedin the public sectorto optimise outcomesboth financial and non-financial
• A solution focussed, innovative and open-minded approach to commercial delivery
• A good eye for detail, with experience of reviewing service delivery-operations
• Anunderstandingof commercial financial practice, cost recoveryprinciples, cost benefits financialanalysisandpricing models
• Experience of benchmarking, market research, comparison and trendsanalysis, criticalchallenge, making/reporting recommendations
• Have excellent communication, influencing,collaboration and negotiation skills
• Be proficient in the use of relevant
  
  IT Systems and software packages

Louise Sketchley, Commercial Business Partner
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Parvinder Uppal, Head of Procurement and Commercial
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Closing Date:
Monday 2 March 2026

Interviews and assessments:
Mon 16 March 26 or Fri 20

March 26

Please note for those shortlisted for interview there will be an assessment that may require some preparation prior to the interviews.

All council roles are allocated to either a fixed, field or flexible work style. Some roles are agile which enable and empower employees to maximise their performance and productivity, whilst maintaining a healthy work life balance. Roles with a fixed workstyle work in a fixed permanent council location. Roles with a field workstyle are usually allocation where employees are required to be out working in the community with a minimum requirement for 'touch down' space at any council location.

Roles with a flexible workstyle have a flexible base location to meet the needs of the business and employees can work from a mixture of home or any council office, partner/client, or external location, as required to meet service requirements.

Please refer to the Job Description for further information on the workstyle assigned to the role you are applying for.

We are committed to building a workforce that is reflective of the diverse community we serve. We want to attract the best applications from people of all backgrounds and underrepresented groups because we strongly believe in adding value through diversity, inclusion, and equality. Our employees enable us to deliver services that are accessible, inclusive, and reflective of Wolverhampton residents.

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