Would you like to be part of a team that enables business growth?

Do you enjoy working as part of an enthusiastic, passionate, and collaborative team?

Join our Commerecial Finance Team

Over the past decade, the Commercial Finance team has grown to over 10 people and has played a pivotal role in driving Softcat's impressive revenue and profit growth. We're a close-knit, resilient team that works cross-functionally across the business, delivering data-driven insights that shape strategic decisions at the highest level.

Success. The Softcat Way.

There's a uniqueness to Softcat – what we do, how we do it and why we do it. That's because we help customers to use technology to succeed, by putting our employees first. We give everyone the chance to step up and show how much they can achieve. We succeed when all our people succeed.

Your Role 

As a Senior Commercial Finance Analyst, you will be responsible for using financial and operational data to report on and generate meaningful insights that shape business decisions.

In this role, you will proactively identify trends, risks, and performance issues, and translate complex data into clear, commercially focused recommendations that influence outcomes.

As a Senior Commercial Finance Analyst, you'll be responsible for:

• Lead the production of structured analysis across your aligned business area.
• Oversee and enhance recurring commercial finance reporting and KPI packs.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve reporting, insight quality and data robustness
• Act as a key finance contact for your aligned stakeholders, regularly engaging in performance discussions and constructively challenging assumptions.
• Shape strategic decision-making by identifying trends, risks and forward-looking opportunities.
• Present clear, commercially focused recommendations to senior management.
• Support and lead elements of budgeting, forecasting and medium-term planning for your area.
• Provide informal guidance and support to analysts where required.

We'd love you to have

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) is desirable
• Demonstrable experience in a Commercial Finance or FP&A role
• Thorough approach with high level of accuracy and numeracy; 
• Strong financial modelling and analytical skills, with the ability to distil complex data into clear insights. 
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Demonstrated track record of independently driving new analysis and improving reporting processes.

We also acknowledge that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome are a real thing and can get in the way of us meeting fantastic talent, so please don't hesitate to apply – we would love to hear from you!

Work in a way that works for you
We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

• Occasional home working possible
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day
• Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs

Join us

To become part of the success story, please apply now.

If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Any information you share on your application will be treated in confidence.  You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.softcat.com/jobs/our-culture/

Here at Softcat, we don't prohibit the use of AI (artificial intelligence) in our application process, as we understand how far it can go to creating a truly equitable candidate experience. That being said, as a culture-driven organisation, we believe that the genuine essence of each person is what truly matters, so we highly encourage you to be as authentically you as possible when submitting your application to showcase your true and whole self.