Commercial Finance Manager

At Simplyhealth, our purpose is simple: to improve access to healthcare, for the many, for the long term. We're looking for a commercially minded, analytically driven Commercial Finance Manager to play a pivotal role in helping us achieve that mission.

This is far more than a traditional finance role. You'll be a trusted business partner to Product Directors, Senior Leaders, and Executive stakeholders, providing the insight, challenge, and commercial expertise needed to drive strategic decisions, unlock growth opportunities, and improve business performance.

If you're passionate about turning data into action, influencing senior decision-makers, and shaping the future of a purpose-led organisation, we'd love to hear from you.

What You'll Be Doing

As the financial lead for key Business Units and Executive Cost Centres, you'll:

Partner with Senior Leaders

• Act as a trusted advisor to Product Directors, budget owners, and senior stakeholders on all financial and performance matters.

• Influence strategic and operational decision-making through robust financial insight and commercial challenge.

• Support leaders in delivering growth agendas, enhancing customer propositions, and creating high-performing service organisations.

Drive Commercial Performance

• Deliver insightful commercial analysis that identifies opportunities, risks, and performance improvement actions.

• Build credible forecasts and scenario plans that help the business achieve and exceed targets.

• Develop recommendations that directly support the delivery of Simplyhealth's strategic ambitions.

Champion Data-Driven Decision Making

• Embed a fact-based, data-led approach to problem-solving across the business.

• Create meaningful reporting and performance dashboards, including OKR reporting, that provide clear visibility of business performance.

• Lead the development of cost reporting and analytics to support effective management of spend, cost-saving initiatives, and investment decisions.

Unlock Efficiency and Value

• Proactively identify opportunities to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and optimise resource allocation.

• Monitor business costs, track savings initiatives, and provide transparency over incremental investments and expenditure.

• Build and enhance Power BI dashboards that bring financial performance and cost management to life for stakeholders.

Contribute to a High-Performing Finance Team

• Collaborate with colleagues across Finance to build a resilient, forward-thinking, and commercially focused finance function.

• Support business transformation and change initiatives through strong financial partnership and leadership.

• Continuously seek opportunities to improve processes, performance, and ways of working.

What’s in it for you 

As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes:  

• Group bonus scheme  

• Generous pension with a 10% pension gift from us when you contribute 4%

• 36 days holiday including public holidays  (with the option to buy and sell a further 5 days)  

• Flexible benefits pot where you are gifted £50 every month  (which you can choose to use against some great benefits such as critical illness, shopping vouchers and more) 

• Your own fully funded health or dental plan 

• Access to a wellbeing hub 

• Shopping discounts 

• Give as you earn 

• 3 volunteering days  

We have a head office in Hampshire, but depending on your role, you’ll be able to enjoy our ‘smart working’ approach. This means you can flex when and where you spend your time. For many of us, this means day-to-day work can be handled remotely, but there will also be times when we need to come together in the office to collaborate (typically once per week), attend training sessions, induction sessions, briefings, and more. When attending the office, you are responsible for all travel/accommodation costs.