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Senior Finance Manager - Product Strategy & Commercial Finance

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Hybrid
Staines-upon-Thames, Middlesex, England
Senior level
Hybrid
Staines-upon-Thames, Middlesex, England
Senior level
Build and maintain product-level P&Ls, financial models, business cases, forecasts, and portfolio investment analyses. Partner with Product, Pricing, Sales, Customer Success, and Finance leaders on product strategy, pricing, monetization, AI economics, cost-to-serve, and capital allocation. Translate incomplete product and commercial data into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders while helping establish a new Product Finance capability.
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Company Description

IFS is a €1.5 billion revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters — at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we're flexible, we're innovative, and we're focused not only on how we can engage with our customers, but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society's greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We're looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs.

If you want to change the status quo, we'll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

Job Description

IFS is continuing to invest significantly in its product portfolio, cloud platform and industrial AI capabilities.

As the scale of that investment grows, Finance needs to move beyond managing Product & Technology (P&T) spend and build a clearer view of product economics, including profitability, pricing, cost-to-serve and portfolio returns.

This role will help establish that capability. You will work closely with the FP&A Director of Product and Product leaders to provide the financial insight required to support product strategy, investment and capital-allocation decisions.

What you'll own:

Product P&Ls - Build and maintain product-level financial views covering revenue, cost, margin and investment.

Portfolio investment - Develop the analysis and business cases that support decisions on where IFS should invest, maintain, redirect or reduce funding.

Product business partnering - Partner Product leadership and collaborate with Pricing, Sales, Customer Success and Finance to support product and commercial decisions.

Pricing and monetisation - Support analysis of packaging, pricing, discounting and consumption-based commercial models.

AI economics - Develop the financial view of AI consumption, cost-to-serve and margin by product.

Planning and portfolio review - Support rolling forecasts, scenario analysis and regular product portfolio reviews.

Decision-ready insight - Turn incomplete product, usage and commercial data into clear analysis and recommendations for senior stakeholders.

Why this role is different:

This is not traditional P&T cost control, and it is not conventional FP&A. You will work on:

  • Product P&Ls, portfolio investment and pricing decisions.
  • AI economics, consumption and cost-to-serve.
  • Complex questions that are not always predefined.

You'll be working In a team where you will help build the Product Finance capability from the ground up, combining commercial judgement, financial modelling and product strategy. Your output will be used directly by senior Finance and Product leadership.

For someone who is ambitious, this is a rare opportunity to shape a new capability, influence significant investment decisions, and gain senior exposure earlier than on a conventional finance path.

Qualifications

What we're hiring for:

Above all, we are hiring for commercial judgement and analytical capability. You can take an ambiguous product or portfolio question, structure it into clear economics and produce analysis that stands up to challenge. You'll typically bring:

  • Strong commercial finance and modelling capability, including experience building P&Ls, business cases and driver-based models.
  • Understanding of software or SaaS economics, including ARR, retention, margin and unit economics.
  • Experience partnering senior non-finance stakeholders.
  • High standards and attention to detail.
  • You are precise, structured and consistent.
  • You care about the integrity and quality of your analysis.

You'll also demonstrate strong commercial intuition - you understand the drivers beneath the numbers, recognising when the financial output does not reflect the business reality. You'll also be able to work with imperfect information, comfortable defining assumptions and making progress without perfect data.

You'll be a clear communicator, able to explain complex product economics simply. You'll also be comfortable constructively challenging senior stakeholders, and taking ownership for your output.

Additional Information

We embrace flexibility and hybrid work opportunities to support diverse needs and lifestyles, while also valuing inclusive workplace experiences. By fostering a sense of community, we drive innovation, strengthen connections, and nurture belonging. Our commitment ensures you can work in a way that suits you best, while also engaging with colleagues to share ideas and build meaningful relationships.

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