Job Description
A leading industrial distribution and services business is looking for a Commercial Finance Manager to embed directly within a divisional leadership team in Newcastle.
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About the Role:
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Acting as the primary finance contact for the division, sitting inside the leadership team rather than reporting in from a distance
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Participating in divisional leadership meetings and bringing financial insight directly into operational decisions
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Building genuine relationships with non-finance leaders and helping them understand what's really driving performance
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Digging into where margin is being won or lost — whether it's rework, mispricing, or inefficiency
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Building and refining pricing models, including labour cost recovery and machinery/overhead recovery
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Supporting the sales team with pricing decisions in real time, not after the fact
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Designing the metrics and lead indicators that tell the business where it's tracking mid-month, not just at month-end
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Briefing the data/BI team on dashboard requirements (you won't need to build them yourself — just know what "good" looks like)
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Turning reporting into something leadership actually uses to make calls, not just a pack that gets filed
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Supporting the annual budget and rolling forecast process at a divisional level
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Analysing variances between forecast and actual, and explaining the "why" behind the numbers
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Making sure divisional plans reflect what's actually happening on the ground, not just top-down assumptions
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Financial modelling and business case support for capital investments and operational initiatives
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Identifying margin improvement and cost efficiency opportunities across the division
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About You:
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CA / CPA qualified preferred
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Strong interpersonal skills: confident engaging non-finance stakeholders
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Operational/commercial
finance background (site-based, not purely corporate)
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Mining, industrials or manufacturing exposure highly regarded, not essential
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Comfortable being embedded on-site 4+ days a week
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Why Apply:
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P/E backed business with a great brand nationally
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Robust development plans
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Flexible working arrangements
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Supportive, high-performing finance team
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Career progression and development opportunities
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Competitive salary and bonus structure
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📌 Commercial Finance Manager (New South Wales)
🏢 Sharp & Carter
📍 New South Wales