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Job Description:
FP&A Analyst – Commercial Finance Business Partner
Location Northwich
Role Purpose
The FP&A Analyst will act as a commercial finance business partner to Comms-Care’s operational and commercial teams, providing high-quality financial insight, challenge, and decision support across pricing, profitability, and complex customer contracts.
Operating in a services-led, recurring-revenue environment, the role will support the financial governance of managed services, cloud, support, and multi-year commercial arrangements, ensuring sustainable profitability, strong margin discipline, and robust financial control.
This role is ideal for a commercially minded analyst who enjoys working close to the business, influencing decisions, and translating financial data into actionable insight.
Key Responsibilities
Commercial Finance & Business Partnering
Act as a trusted finance business partner to Sales, Operations, Service Delivery, and Leadership teams, supporting commercial decision-making across the full contract lifecycle.Provide proactive financial insight and challenge on new deals, renewals, and contract variations to ensure alignment with Comms-Care’s financial and strategic objectives.Support negotiations by clearly articulating financial risks, opportunities, and trade-offs.Pricing Governance & Commercial Approvals
Oversight of pricing governance and commercial approval frameworks, ensuring adherence to defined approval thresholds and internal controls.Review pricing models, assumptions, and financial viability of deals prior to approval.Ensure consistent application of pricing policies across managed services, cloud, support, and project-based contracts.Margin, Profitability & Cost-to-Serve
Perform detailed margin, profitability, and cost-to-serve analysis by customer, contract, service line, and segment.Identify trends, risks, and opportunities to improve contribution margin and overall financial performance.Partner with operational teams to improve cost transparency and efficiency.Complex Commercial & Contract Structuring
Financial structuring and review of complex commercial arrangements, including:Multi-year contractsVolume-based pricing modelsManaged services and support contractsCloud and consumption-based servicesAssess long-term profitability, cash flow, and risk exposure, ensuring contracts are financially sound over their full lifecycle.Margin Leakage & Continuous Improvement
Proactively identify margin leakage, revenue erosion, and commercial inefficiencies across contracts and service delivery.Work with stakeholders to implement corrective actions and improve financial outcomes.Support continuous improvement initiatives in financial processes, reporting, and governance.Segmental Reporting & Management Information
Executive ownership and review of Segmental Reporting, ensuring accuracy, insight, and relevance for senior leadership.Prepare clear and insightful commentary explaining performance drivers, variances, and forward-looking risks and opportunities.Support month-end, forecast, and budget processes with a strong commercial lens.Skills & Experience
Essential
Strong experience in FP&A, commercial finance, or management accounting, ideally within a services, technology, or managed services environment.Proven ability to analyse margins, profitability, and cost-to-serve in complex, contract-based businesses.Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills (including DCF modelling).Strong commercial acumen with the confidence to challenge and influence stakeholders.Ability to communicate complex financial concepts clearly to non-finance audiences.Personal Attributes
Commercially curious and detail-oriented.Self-starter, with a strong sense of ownership.Confident communicator, collaborative, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment.Pragmatic and solutions-focused, with a continuous improvement mindset.Trusted partner who balances commercial ambition with financial discipline.