Mission
The Commercial Finance Manager serves as the financial co-pilot to Commercial Leadership, providing financial visibility, driving profitable growth, and ensuring disciplined business decisions. In summary, this position helps leaders answer 3 critical questions: Where should we grow, where should we invest, and where should we protect value?
Key Responsibilities
1. Lead Financial Performance and Business Control
- Own financial performance visibility for Saint-Gobain North and assigned businesses.
- Lead forecasting, budgeting, month-end closing, management reporting, and financial reviews.
- Drive transparency on sales, margin, operating profit, EBITDA and cash performance.
- Identify risks and opportunities, challenge assumptions, and provide actionable recommendations to management.
- Ensure strong governance over working capital, credit exposure, commercial spending and key financial controls.
2. Drive Profitable Commercial Growth
- Partner with Commercial Leadership to improve business performance and growth quality.
- Monitor profitability across product categories, customer segments, channels, distributors and key accounts.
- Lead analysis of channel economics, customer profitability and commercial effectiveness.
- Provide insights on where to invest, scale, protect margins or optimize resources.
- Support commercial decisions with robust financial analysis and scenario modelling.
3. Partner on Pricing, Margin & Investment Decisions
- Evaluate pricing proposals, rebate schemes, incentives and commercial investment programs.
- Drive discipline around margin management, price-cost spread and return on investment.
- Assess the financial impact of major commercial initiatives before and after implementation.
- Ensure growth initiatives deliver sustainable and profitable outcomes.
4. Enable Strategic Business Decisions
- Act as a trusted advisor to the Managing Director and Commercial Leadership Team.
- Support business cases for market expansion, channel development, distributor onboarding, new product launches and strategic projects.
- Provide financial modelling and decision support for growth, transformation and integration initiatives.
- Translate complex financial data into clear business insights and management actions.