Commercial Finance Manager

About Us

We’re Dayshape—an award-winning software scale-up with big ambitions and the momentum to match. Trusted by Big Four and many other top professional services firms globally, our AI-powered resource management platform is helping organisations to achieve extraordinary results.

Our platform stands apart as the only solution that combines advanced AI, real-time project financials, and firm-wide insights to elevate resource management to a strategic function. By driving profitable growth, powering confident decisions, and ensuring satisfied clients and teams—we're helping our customers build strong organisations and careers for the long term.

Why our customers love Dayshape:

• We help professional firms optimise margins and increase revenue, unlocking access to more profitable work.
• We provide complete operational visibility today and the tools to confidently predict tomorrow.
• We empower firms to become the places where top talent wants to work - and the best clients want to work with.

Recognised as Scotland’s fastest-growing tech company in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for three consecutive years and more recently as the Enterprise Digital Tech Business of the Year at the 2024 ScotlandIS awards, we’ve consistently proven our ability to innovate and deliver real impact—and we’re always looking for like-minded people to join us.

At Dayshape, our purpose is to improve people's working lives, and our culture is an important driving force in helping us to do just that. We're a friendly, inclusive, and ambitious team—driven by our values and a shared commitment to success. If you’re ready to join a fast-growing, high-impact company that’s reimagining resource management, then let’s talk.

About the role

The Commercial Finance Manager plays a pivotal role in shaping financial insight, strategic planning, and operational decision making across the business. As a senior member of a small but high impact Finance team, this role blends FP&A, business partnering, and management accounting to deliver clarity, challenge, and strategic value.

You will lead budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, monthly consolidation, and performance commentary, ensuring the business has a coherent, year round understanding of its trajectory. You will partner closely with the Commercial and Senior Leadership teams, translating complex financial information into clear, actionable insight that drives growth and performance.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a scaling environment, comfortable solving new challenges and turning them into opportunities, enjoys wearing multiple hats, and can elevate colleagues through collaboration, communication, and financial leadership.

What you’ll do

1. FP&A, Financial Reporting & Insight

• Lead the full budgeting and forecasting cycle, ensuring alignment with company goals and priorities.
• Build and maintain financial models, business cases, and investment proposals to support strategic decisions.
• Improve management information (MI) and KPI reporting so it’s clear, relevant, and actionable for stakeholders.
• Produce monthly financial commentary that highlights key performance drivers, trends, and opportunities.
• Lead the monthly global consolidation process, including intercompany eliminations and transfer pricing.
• Own areas such as transfer pricing compliance and hedge (derivative) accounting, including guidance on forward contracts and options.
• Support ad-hoc strategic and commercial analysis to drive growth and profitability.
• Manage the annual audit process, ensuring smooth and timely delivery.
• Take full ownership of deliverables, working independently and reliably to high standards.

2. Business Partnering & Cross-functional Collaboration

• Act as a proactive business partner to the Commercial team, challenge assumptions, provide insight, and support decision making
• Partner with the CEO and Senior Leadership Team throughout budgeting, strategic planning, and Board reporting cycles.
• Translate complex financial information into practical, actionable insights for non-finance colleagues.
• Build credibility as a trusted advisor across the company, helping others understand and use financial insights effectively.
• Collaborate with the Head of Finance on legal, governance, and compliance matters, including growth share structures and Companies House obligations.
• Model professionalism, integrity, and accountability—contributing to a high-performance finance culture.

3. Value Creation, Process Improvement & Automation

• Identify and address gaps in reporting, controls, and processes to improve efficiency and scalability.
• Drive automation and standardisation across reporting, forecasting, and month-end processes.
• Champion the use of our finance systems, including Numeric (AI month-end system) and Fathom (reporting tool), ensuring optimal usage and data integrity.
• Continuously evolve the Board Pack to provide a clear, year-round story of business performance.
• Anticipate issues, identify solutions, and follow through to resolution.

Requirements

About you:

• Qualified Accountant with 4+ years' experience
• Experience in a growing SME environment, or from practice managing SME accounts.
• Strong business acumen — you understand how the business works and use financial insight to support informed decisions.
• Experience presenting summary-level MI to senior stakeholders with confidence and clarity.
• Skilled in delivering persuasive financial presentations that inform and influence decision making.
• Highly independent and proactive, comfortable stepping up to solve problems and manage new challenges as the business scales, taking full ownership of deliverables.
• Able to challenge and be challenged constructively, using data and sound reasoning.
• Detail-oriented and investigative by nature — methodical, analytical, and thorough in solving problems.
• Naturally improvement-focused and action-oriented — always seeking ways to drive better processes and outcomes, anticipating issues, identifying solutions, and following through to resolution.
• AI centric with strong technical skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Resilient, adaptable, and resourceful, able to juggle priorities and deliver at pace.
• Willing and motivated to turn your hand to a wide range of tasks within a collaborative finance team.

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience in an international organisation.
• Experience in transfer pricing.
• Finance experience within an enterprise software company

Benefits

What you’ll get

• Salary c. £60,000 - £70,000
• At least £1,000 per year to spend on professional and personal development
• 33 days' holiday per year (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 40 days
• Paid four week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Private health insurance, including dental and vision benefits
• Income protection and death in service cover
• Matched 5% auto-enrolment workplace pension scheme
• Access to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling service
• Volunteering time – up to 20 hours a year to participate in volunteer work
• Regular All Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communication
• Time out of the working week for team socials each month, with a mix of in-person and virtual options: past events include hiking, family BBQs, board games and at-home cocktail classes!
• Genuinely nice, smart people to work with, who are excited about growing our company

Working Details

This is a full-time role (37.5 hours per week). We typically work from 09:00 - 17:30 from Monday to Friday, though we can be flexible around this, just let us know.

We’re ideally looking for someone in/around Edinburgh, able to work on a hybrid basis between home and our Haymarket office.

We don't mandate required office time, but we find that most of the team enjoy working from the office 2-3 days a week, and come into our office to connect with each other, make use of space, and for meetings.

Join the team!

Equality of opportunity is more than just a responsibility: we believe it’s a huge advantage to welcome a variety of experiences and perspectives into the team. Diversity is a great asset and, as such, we strongly encourage applications from any background.

This is your opportunity to really influence how we get things done, and how our company grows. We're doing well, but there's lots more to do in order to maintain the high bar and pace that we've set.

Everyone here is growing personally as the company grows, so if that sounds like something you’d like to be part of, we’d love to see your application. The deadline for applications is 13th April 2026, 5PM GMT.