Commercial Finance Manager

About us

At Environment Bank, we’re working together to help restore natural habitats across England.
With thousands of acres of new habitat creation already underway, our projects are delivering
biodiversity gains and helping vital ecosystems to recover and flourish. 

Our diverse team includes ecologists, land managers, habitat specialists, geospatial analysts,
planning advisors, account managers, digital creatives, legal experts, and more. 

From our habitat specialists to our sales and marketing teams, everyone at Environment Bank is
a champion for our values, working towards our goal of reversing biodiversity loss. 

Environment Bank is a market-leading organisation in a sector that’s experiencing rapid growth.
We’ve already built a highly skilled team of experts and we’re actively looking to expand our
team in the coming months. 

We’re incredibly proud of all we achieved so far and we’re still growing. If you’d like to be
part of a driven organisation that’s making a real difference, find your next role with the
team at Environment Bank.

About the role

The Commercial Finance Manager will be responsible for maximising the performance and
profitability of each habitat bank in their portfolio to ensure:

• The optimum individual performance of each habitat bank, as measured against its investment
  business case (following its successful establishment) for the selling of Biodiversity Units
  (BU’s)
• There are transparent and consistent working approaches between Land, Ecology, Sales,
  Marketing, and Finance, creating positive feedback loops to ensure each habitat bank is
  positioned for optimal commercial and ecological outcomes.
• The overall performance of their portfolio of HB’s delivers on financial targets in order
  to maximise the performance and profitability of each habitat bank in their portfolio.
• Local market intelligence is utilised to understand demand levels, competitor supply and
  how these impact sales strategies, forecasts and pricing. The role requires involvement in the
  pre-onboarding phase of new habitat banks to ensure accurate demand and supply forecasting,
  matching of unit type demand, market alignment and optimal pricing strategies.

Performance Optimisation

• Maximise habitat bank value: Use local market intelligence to enhance the financial and
  ecological value of a portfolio of habitat banks, as measured against their business cases, to
  deliver maximum value.
• Data-driven forecasting: Deliver accurate forecasts, alongside sales team colleagues, for
  biodiversity unit sales, based on local market trends and developer demand.
• Revenue growth: Work with sales and pricing teams to ensure that pricing strategies reflect
  the unique characteristics of each habitat bank.
• Stock management: Provide a consistent narrative for habitat bank performance and how this
  will affect demand and supply factors for future habitat bank placement. Ensure “problem” sites
  are acknowledged early with remedial actions to deliver maximum value.

Market intelligence and demand planning:

• Work collaboratively with Land, Sales, and Marketing to build unified market intelligence
  to inform strategies for land acquisition, marketing, pricing, and sales.
• Supply and demand alignment: Provide data on the supply of biodiversity units relative to
  market demand, adjusting strategies accordingly.

Cross functional collaboration

• Pre-onboarding involvement: Engage early in the onboarding process of new habitat banks
  with the Land and Ecology teams to ensure that market demand and supply data reflects reality,
  is captured accurately in the financial viability tests and provides a deliverable sales cycle
  for the habitat bank.

Pricing optimisation

• Price setting: work with commercial finance colleagues to set location specific pricing,
  factoring in variable such as scarcity, demand, local competition and ecological value
• Monitor price trends: Evaluate pricing strategies relative to local market factors to
  optimise revenue opportunity.

Reporting & performance tracking

• Track habitat bank metrics: Regular monitoring and reporting of the performance of each
  habitat bank, assessing pipeline density, opportunity conversion, habitat maturity and revenue
  opportunity. Identifying challenges and opportunities and initiating responses to these.

Requirements

• Analytical skills: Ability to interpret complex market data, demand trends and financial
  forecasts to inform strategic decisions.
• Financially astute and Commercial acumen: Strong understanding of pricing, market
  positioning and revenue optimisation strategies
• Collaboration: Demonstrated experience working across multiple departments including sales,
  marketing, ecology, finance and land teams
• Communication: An excellent communicator. Engaging with diverse internal and external
  stakeholders

Benefits

As an organisation, we believe that work should be fulfilling, inspiring, and balanced, so
we’re creating a space where our team can thrive, both personally and professionally –
providing flexible working arrangements, mental wellbeing support, and more.

We offer… 

 Performance-based annual bonus up to 10% of salary 

 Pension scheme with employer-matched contributions at 6% of salary 

️ 30 days of annual leave, plus paid bank holidays, birthday, and wellbeing day 

➕ Option to purchase 5 additional days of annual leave after probation

 Remote and hybrid flexible working options 

 Regional and departmental team co-working days 

 Expenses-paid whole company meet twice a year 

️ Team fundraising and charity events 

 Ongoing career development with training and mentoring 

 Medical cash back scheme to cover everyday healthcare costs 

‍  Employee assistance mental wellbeing support 

❤️‍ ️ Enhanced sickness pay allowance