Head of Commercial Finance - 12 Month FTCFull-timeOffice: LondonWe are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels.
Great journeys start with Trainline Now Europe's number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 125 million monthly visits and £5.3 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, and affordable as it should be.
As Head of Commercial Finance for Trainline Partner Solutions (TPS), you will be the key business partner to the VP and Directors who lead our TPS segment. You will be the finance commercial thought partner for the TPS team, helping them appraise business cases and new deals, together with forming strategy and deep diving into business performance. This is a true partnership role where the business will look to you to help articulate the scale of their growth and profit ambition and help them look around corners in potential deal structures. You will bring data and fact-led critical thinking to help investment and ROI planning and to ensure the business objectives are being met in the most effective and efficient way. You will deliver high quality, actionable insight to drive decision-making and investment allocation across our three TPS business segments.
This role also includes all aspects of Corporate development in relation to possible acquisitions. You will be the lead finance partner to our Business Development director in assessing possible acquisitions, critically assessing their financial information and considering whether they would be additive to our Group.
In this senior role you will also be key to helping our department evolve. Though you won't have direct line management, you will play a key role within our finance leadership team – helping coach and mentor more junior members, setting the right tone at the top and contributing to the overall culture of our team.
The position will be a 12 month fixed term contract to cover parental leave and we are looking for someone who can ideally start very quickly.
In the role you will: Be the finance business partnering across TPS – partnering at a VP/Director level, including:Powering business growth whilst optimising for balance with shareholder return: assessing and challenging business thinking on proposed commercial terms and renegotiations.Optimising deal terms and structures, to help deliver the best outcome for Trainline whilst understanding and balancing the needs of counterparts.Sales budgeting & reforecasting: owning the process for setting budgets and measuring delivery against budgeted outcomes.Strategic partnership and business case partnering: you will be part of the strategy process with the TPS function.Holding the business to account on budget and OKR outcomes.Be the finance lead and voice in the room in Exec level forums.Helping to set and monitor operational KPIs which align with wider goals.Shaping and influencing Data Science team roadmap to prioritise biz-critical, high impact projects.Work with Finance Control, Data and Commercial teams to ensure contract changes, proposals etc are viable and actionable.Creating Exec- and Board-ready outputs.Be lead finance partner with our Director of BD – helping to assess potential target acquisitions including:Provide critical thinking around the strategic value of such investments.Reviewing any financial information relating to targets.Review / produce modelling to consider future prospects of targets.Take part in discussions with target management teams.Support in any due diligence processes.We're looking for: Creative big thinkers with small egos.Experience in a commercial finance or business partnering role.Proactive with a can-do attitude.Ability to work at pace and energy within a growth environment.A team player with a 'roll your sleeves up' attitude.Innate ability to distil and communicate results of complex analysis clearly and effectively.Experience presenting regularly at an Exec level.Strong stakeholder management and proactive partnering skills.Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, and excellent family-friendly benefits.
We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days.
Our values represent the things that matter most to us:
Think Big - We're building the future of rail.Own It - We focus on every customer, partner and journey.Travel Together - We're one team.
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