Commercial Finance Executive

About the role

This role drives technology-enabled process improvement, business intelligence, ERP data governance and cross-functional transformation, with a strong focus on costing, price support and margin analysis. It builds a deep understanding of key cost elements such as material, manufacturing, overhead and conversion costs, and turns them into accurate reporting, commercial decision support and margin-improvement opportunities. The position converts business requirements into practical reporting, automation and system solutions.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain and enhance costings, dashboards and management reporting solutions for operational and financial performance.
• Perform detailed product costing, cost build-up validation and analysis of material, manufacturing, overhead and conversion costs.
• Provide price support to Commercial and Sales teams through cost analysis, pricing simulations, scenario modelling and profitability impact assessment.
• Analyse gross margin, contribution margin, customer/product profitability, price and cost variances and margin leakage.
• Automate recurring data preparation and reporting with Power Query, Power Automate, Excel and approved enterprise tools.
• Build structured data models and reporting frameworks supporting multi-period analysis and budget comparisons.
• Gather, document and translate business requirements into functional specifications, dashboards, workflows and system improvements.
• Identify process gaps, root causes and opportunities to reduce manual effort and improve turnaround time.
• Lead or support continuous improvement initiatives across Finance, Operations, Commercial, Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality and IT.
• Maintain governance over SAP master data and operating parameters (BOMs, routings, resources, production activities, costing inputs).
• Coordinate SAP updates, testing, validation, issue resolution and user follow-up; monitor data quality and reconcile source information.
• Prepare user guidance, run knowledge-sharing sessions and support adoption of new dashboards and digital processes.
• Manage improvement projects, including action tracking, stakeholder coordination, risk escalation and benefit monitoring.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Analytics, Industrial Engineering, Finance Technology or a related discipline.
• Minimum 3-4 years of experience in a technical, ERP, business intelligence, process excellence, analytics or digital transformation role.
• Hands-on experience with AI modeling, Power BI, advanced Excel, Power Query and ERP systems, preferably SAP.
• Experience in workflow automation, data modeling, requirements gathering and cross-functional project support is preferred.