Senior Finance Manager Location: Hatfield (hybrid working)
Package: Up to £95,000 base + strong bonus + executive-level benefits
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he role This is a senior commercial leadership opportunity within a high-velocity, multi-billion-pound consumer organisation operating at national scale. The business is complex, operationally intense and constantly evolving — and finance plays a central role in shaping how it grows, invests and performs.

As Senior Finance Manager, you will sit at the core of strategic and operational decision-making, acting as a critical advisor to senior leaders. This is not a traditional reporting role — it’s about driving forward commercial outcomes, challenging thinking, and ensuring financial insight is embedded into how the business is run.
You’ll operate across a broad, multi-site footprint, balancing short-term performance with long-term value creation, while leading and developing a high-performing finance team.

Key accountabilities*Acting as lead finance partner to senior operational and commercial leaders, influencing decisions with material financial impact
*Owning complex end-to-end financial planning for a large operational estate, encompassing forecasting, budgeting and scenario modelling
*Providing clear, forward-looking insight on revenue, margins, cost drivers, labour and productivity
*Driving financial rigour into strategic initiatives, investments, pricing decisions and operational change programmes
*Leading and evolving reporting and insight capabilities to support faster, better quality decision-making
*Playing a hands-on role in major commercial negotiations, ensuring outcomes align with wider business objectives
*Developing and setting direction for a team of finance professionals, raising commercial capability and standards across the function
*Acting as a senior voice within the wider finance leadership community, contributing to broader finance transformation and strategy
About you*Fully qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) with significant post-qualification experience
*Strong track record in senior commercial finance roles within large, complex, customer-driven organisations
*Deep experience operating in multi-site or high-volume environments where pace and scale matter
*A proven business partner at senior level — comfortable influencing, challenging and shaping decisions
*Commercially astute, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and competing priorities
*Experienced people leader with a genuine interest in building high-performing teams
*Confident communicator who can distil complex financial narratives into clear, actionable messages
Why this role stands out*Senior-level influence in a high-profile, commercially ambitious business
*Exposure to complex decision-making at scale
*Opportunity to shape strategy, performance and capability — not just report on them
*Competitive package with base salary up to £95k plus bonus