Commercial Finance Manager
APEM Group
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Finance / Banking / Insurance, Sales / Marketing
Are you a commercially focused finance professional who enjoys turning numbers into insight? Are you comfortable working closely with senior leaders, asking why performance looks the way it does and helping shape better decisions? Are you looking for a role where you can influence growth, resilience and long-term performance in a values-led consultancy?
APEM Group is a fast-growing environmental consultancy working across marine science, water, ecology and environmental assessment. Our Marine Science & Development (MSD) business is one of the largest marine consultancies in the UK and is entering an exciting phase of growth, investment and integration as part of Applus+.
We’re looking for a Commercial Finance Manager to partner with the MSD leadership team. This role goes beyond reporting, you’ll play a key role in strengthening forecasting, improving financial understanding, and ensuring leaders have the insight they need to make confident, informed decisions. You’ll support budgeting, forecasting and performance analysis, while helping shape KPIs that genuinely reflect how the business operates and grows.
Over time you will become a trusted commercial advisor to senior stakeholders. Your input will improve financial discipline, support sustainable growth, and help the business navigate change as it scales and integrates new activity.
The role is hybrid, with an expectation of one day per week in our South Manchester office, plus ad hoc travel as required.
Essential
You’ll need to bring:
- Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent)
- At least three years PQE, with commercial finance experience, including P&L ownership
- Experience supporting and challenging senior stakeholders with insight and analysis
- Proven capability in budgeting, forecasting and KPI development
- Excellent analytical skills and advanced Excel capability
- Ability to communicate financial information clearly to non-finance audiences
- Experience in consultancy, professional services or project-based environments
- Exposure to growth, transformation or acquisitive businesses
- Experience working with Power BI or similar reporting tools
Next steps
We are focused on creating a diverse and inclusive team. If you can’t tick every box on our job description, then we are still keen to hear from you and are open to supporting your development. That may be working part time or supporting you to gain experience in a specific area – we are a growing company and are able to adapt roles to reflect individual skills.
If you think you have what it takes to join our fast-growing business, then please apply immediately on our website. All we need some basic information and your CV, we will review all applications quickly and will respond to all applications.
About You
About Us
The APEM Group is a global environmental consultancy, we work with a range of clients including large corporations and governments to help them understand and solve a wide variety of environmental projects in the UK and globally. Our successful pioneering work has enabled us to grow and combine forces with other businesses who share our ethos and integrity. At our core, our people are working towards the protection of the environment across the globe.
About the company
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With locations across the globe, APEM Group provide independent environmental consultancy and expert scientific advice to a wide range of industries including water, renewables, infrastructure, power and utilities, ports and harbours as well as to regulators and governments around the world.
We provide a range of services to clients including our world leading digital aerial wildlife surveys, environmental impact assessments and approvals, marine, water & terrestrial ecology, geospatial insights, shipping and navigational risk assessments, heritage advice and landscape visualisation.
In July 2021, APEM Group acquired Sligo-based Woodrow, an environmental and sustainability consultancy, followed in February 2022 by the acquisition of AQUAFACT, a specialist in marine surveys, based in Galway, Ireland. In May 2022, APEM Group acquired GoBe Consultants, a planning and environmental services consultancy based in Devon and Glasgow, followed by the acquisition in June 2023 of Macro Works, a Dublin based provider of landscape and visual consultancy services, and NASH Maritime, a leading shipping, navigation and maritime risk consultancy based in Southampton, in July 2023. In October 2023, the acquisition of Aspect Ecology, based in Banbury, was completed. Biosis and Attexo, both based in Australia, became the seventh and eighth acquisitions in APEM Group in 2024. We furthered our expansion in Australia by acquiring AARC Environmental Solutions in April 2025.