Commercial Finance Manager

About Nep Group

Role Overview

Finance Business Partnering

• Act as the primary finance partner to commercial, operational, and delivery teams across the Middle East & Asia region, with a particular focus on supporting the newly created Commercial Operations Manager role - a key strategic position within the business.
• Provide timely, clear, and commercially relevant financial analysis to support decision-making on bids, contracts, and new business opportunities.
• Build strong, trusted relationships with senior stakeholders - including sales, operations, and regional leadership - across multiple geographies and time zones.
• Challenge assumptions constructively and bring a commercial lens to financial planning and forecasting.

Revenue & Commercial Support

• Own the financial review of commercial forecasts, pricing, and contracts, ensuring margin integrity and appropriate risk management.
• Maintain robust revenue tracking, pipeline reporting, and commercial dashboards to support regional business reviews.
• Lead the budgeting and forecasting, in collaboration with commercial teams, of the region’s sales forecast.

Operational & Delivery Partnering

• Serve as a trusted finance business partner to operational and delivery teams, including logistics and project delivery, helping them understand cost drivers, project economics, and financial performance.
• Work closely with the Commercial Operations Manager - a newly created strategic role - to embed financial discipline into operational planning and commercial execution, ensuring alignment between revenue ambition and delivery capacity.
• Support and implement post-project financial reviews, ensuring learnings on cost and margin performance are fed back into future commercial pricing and planning.

Planning, Reporting & Analysis

• Lead the commercial finance input into the annual budget and quarterly forecasting cycles for the region.
• Prepare and present meaningful management reporting, variance analysis, and performance commentary to regional and group leadership.
• Understand and challenge month end results, working with the Controlling team. Produce monthly management reporting for the Head of Commercial Finance and Chief Financial Officer.
• Identify trends, risks, and opportunities within the financial data and communicate these proactively.

People Management

• Support the growth and development of junior finance team members (2 x Analysts), providing coaching and structured feedback.

Cross-Border Collaboration

• Work effectively with group finance, operations, and commercial functions across different regions, cultures, and time zones.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of financial processes, systems, and reporting tools across the region.

Qualifications & Experience

• Fully qualified CIMA or ACCA accountant.
• Minimum 7 years of post-qualification experience in a commercial finance or finance business partnering role.
• Proven track record of partnering with sales, commercial, revenue-generating, or operational delivery teams.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate complex financial data into clear, actionable insight.
• High emotional intelligence - able to adapt communication style, navigate ambiguity, and influence without authority.
• Experience working across multiple geographies or time zones in an international business environment.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and financial modelling; comfortable with ERP and reporting systems.

Desirable

• Experience within the broadcast, media, or live events industry.
• Exposure to the Middle East business environment.
• Experience with Hyperion
• Arabic language skills (not required).

Key Competencies

• Commercial Acumen — Understands the commercial drivers of the business and uses financial insight to support growth.
• Relationship Building — Develops genuine, effective working relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
• Communication — Presents financial information clearly and confidently to both finance and non-finance audiences.
• Adaptability — Thrives in a fast-paced, multi-cultural, multi-time-zone environment.
• People Leadership — Motivates and develops team members to perform at their best.
• Integrity — Maintains the highest standards of financial rigour and professional ethics.