Job Title: Commercial Finance Manager
Location: Fulwood, Preston
Contract Type: Permanent, 37.5 hours a week
About the Role
The Commercial Finance Manager will be responsible for providing financial insight, business partnering and commercial analysis that drive revenue growth and margin improvement. This is a brand new role for CHEC and there is an opportunity to make a real impact. The role owns customer-level economics, pricing support, and commercial decision analysis, acting as a key partner to Commercial, Contracts and Data.
Responsibilities
- Work with FP&A to link commercial insights into forecasts and budgets.
- Partner with Commercial under the leadership of the line manager, to contract negotiation, pricing decisions and commercial negotiations.
- Produce regular commercial insight on revenue, margin, churn, and patient behaviour.
- Work with the Commercial and Contracts Teams to understand the performance, forecasts and areas of improvement.
- Responsible for building relationships and managing external stakeholders in tandem with the Contracts and Commercial teams.
- Drive continuous improvement in forecasting, revenue recognition processes and commercial data quality.
- Lead customer profitability, contract economics, and pricing/margin analysis.
- Provide monthly revenue analysis and variance explanations against budget and forecast.
- Support management reporting (e.g., revenue by specialism, customer, contract).
- Assist with budgeting and forecasting for revenue streams.
- Collaborate on KPI dashboards (e.g., debtor days, billing lag, cash conversion).
- Build relationships externally with Customers (ICBs, Trusts and other organisations) to manage the commercials.
- Responsible for understanding NHS Contracting and interpreting them to ensure accuracy of financial management.
What you’ll bring to the role
- ACA/CIMA/ACCA Qualified
- Experience in commercial finance and revenue management
- Proven experience supporting commercial and contract teams
- Strong commercial acumen
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders
- Excellent business partnering ability
- Understanding of pricing, revenue recognition and commercial contracts
- Attention to detail
- Comfortable working in a fast paced, change oriented environment
- Advanced Excel
Why work for us
- 25 days holidays plus bank holidays
- Buy and sell annual leave scheme
- Refer a friend scheme
- Company pension
- Company sick pay scheme
- Life assurance scheme
- Bluelight Card – 100's of discount and cashback options
- Performance review with a training and development plan
- Employee discounts portal
- Gym membership
- Cycle to work scheme
- Tech scheme
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