Senior Financial Modeller and Commercial Analyst

Are you ready to take your finance career to the next level with a role that impacts the public of Greater Manchester and offers continuous growth opportunities?

Join our dynamic Commercial Services team at TfGM, where you will influence high-value contracts and gain experience across multiple disciplines. This senior role will play a key part in advising TfGM’s Leadership Teams on a broad range of commercial transactions, providing key business support across the commercial deal cycle.

Your Role

This senior and critical role will play a key part in advising TfGM’s Senior Leadership Teams on a broad range of commercial matters. You will provide key business support across the commercial deal cycle including creating financial models; advising on options for commercial structures and associated financial and commercial risks for each option; specify and advise on procurement requirements; review and evaluate major procurements; negotiate with suppliers to get best outcome for TfGM; and be involved in commercial and contractual disputes throughout the life of the contract.

For more info see Job Profile below.

Who are we?

Corporate Finance is part of the TfGM Commercial Services team. For most projects, you will be a member of a broad team of professionals that includes expertise in commercial, legal, finance and procurement disciplines to help the business shape its requirements and deliver excellence in our contracts. It will allow the successful applicant to influence high value and strategically important contracts. As part of the team, you will be on hand to provide financial and commercial support for critical decisions at whatever stage the commercial transaction is at.

You will have the opportunity to gain a wide experience across a number of commercial services disciplines which can be supported with on the job training and supplemented by relevant courses. Due to the diversity and dynamic nature of this role it will allow the individual to continuously learn and develop their experience in a commercial advisory role

What you’ll bring

What you do and how you do it is important whatever type of role you work in at TfGM and even small behaviours and actions can have a really big impact. At TfGM, our behaviours bring to life our values of Deliver, Care and Adapt.

What you do and how you do it is important whatever type of role you work in at TfGM and even small behaviours and actions can have a really big impact. At TfGM, our behaviours bring to life our values of Deliver, Care and Adapt.

The ideal candidate will have experience across financial modelling; commercial deal structures, including complex procurements; negotiation with external suppliers; and an ability to identify, analyse and summarise complex financial data.

Proven leadership in challenging commercial environments and strong interpersonal skills are essential. Desirable experience includes creating financial models in line with the best practice, understanding legal contract implications from a financial and commercial perspective and have some experience in the procurement process. A degree-level education and professional qualifications (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA, MCIPS) are essential, along with ongoing professional development.

What we can offer you

This is a permanent role with a salary of £70,906 - £79,805, where you will gain experience across multiple commercial disciplines supporting a number of varied projects and operational teams across TfGM.

As part of the Commercial Services function, we are committed to continuous personnel development and will support you in the area you require be it via a relevant course or giving you a breadth of different experiences to further your career.

At TfGM we encourage candidates to discuss flexible working options at any stage of the recruitment process. We are happy to #talkflexibleworking to help colleagues maintain a healthy work life balance.

Our benefits include:

• Generous annual leave starting at 28 days (plus bank holidays), increasing with service, with options to buy more.
• Free travel on buses across Greater Manchester, plus rail or Metrolink travel to and from work.
• Local Government defined pension scheme with life cover of 3x salary and options to boost your contributions.
• Enhanced family-friendly leave policies, including those supporting fertility treatment, alongside flexible and hybrid working and a special leave policy to support a range of unexpected events. Please note that qualification criteria may apply, including a requirement to have been employed with the organisation for a minimum specified period of time.
• Discover more benefits including wellbeing support, Personal and Career Development, Flexible working, financial support and more on our website

What's next?

If you believe you have the skills and experience required, we’d really like to hear from you. To apply please submit your CV and also provide a covering letter providing clear examples of how your experience meets the requirements of the role, all appointments will be based on merit. Our short-listing process is anonymised, so please do not include your name or contact details on either of these documents. If any personal details are included these will be visible to the hiring manager.

We embrace AI to enhance our operations and to innovate our services. However, we value human talent and are looking for passionate individuals to join our organisation. Please ensure you personally complete your application and read the instructions carefully to maximise your chances of success.

Applications that rely too heavily on AI may be rejected during shortlisting, however we understand that AI may be used as a reasonable adjustment, if using AI to support your application, please give a brief explanation why to help ensure fair selection process.

If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme, please indicate this within your Supporting Statement.

TfGM is proud to be an equal opportunities employer that encourages and celebrates diversity. We want to recruit and retain a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and welcome individuals from all backgrounds by committing to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We will offer support and reasonable adjustments if required and we also have a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme which you can find out more information on here.

For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK - if in doubt please visit the following link Employers' right to work checklist - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Please note we are not a licensed sponsor.

Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.

NOTE TO AGENCIES we will be accepting direct applications only for this role. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral CV.