Senior Finance Manager

A finance leadership position with the leaders in AI empowered insights – come disrupt a whole industry with us!

About Verve

We are not your typical consultancy. And this isn't your typical Finance role.

Verve is at the forefront of AI-powered insight and foresight. Fusing technology, human expertise, and cultural insight to help global brands make game-changing decisions. With a 120 strong team across the UK, Europe, North America, Australia, and South Africa, we partner with brands like Samsung, Mars Petcare, and Unilever to redefine how businesses think, act, and grow. Our market-leading AI tools have received widespread acclaim, and now we’re ready to accelerate - scaling rapidly to become one of the world’s leading research consultancies.

We need someone with experience of finance process improvement, financial planning and leadership looking to have a position with broad responsibility for commercial finance, FP&A and finance process improvement.

You will be based in the London area and your role will offer the chance to help scale an AI-powered consultancy that’s redefining the industry.

If you’re looking for a high-profile, career-defining role in a business that’s shaping the future of insights - we’d love to talk to you.

Role & responsibilities

Finance Leadership

• Working closely with the CFO, lead the finance team day-to-day, owning and delivering on finance priorities
• Support in execution of M&A and corporate finance

Financial Control and Management

• Own and deliver all management reporting and board-level financial insights
• Ensure financial systems, controls, and tools support scalable growth
• Implement appropriate cost control policies and suggest new approaches to margin improvement

Financial Planning and Commercial Finance

• Oversee budgeting, forecasting across the business
• Drive margin and profit improvement, with a hands-on approach
• Partner with operations and project teams to optimise pricing, efficiency and resourcing of our projects
• Help build a culture of commercial accountability and data-led decision-making across the organisation

About you

Experience 

• Proven finance leadership experience in a management consultancy, consultancy-based marketing services, or other time-based professional services business
• Demonstrated success in improving finance process efficiency and in a finance business partner, FP&A or commercial finance role
• Track record of contributing at a senior level
• Experience in M&A, fundraising, strategic planning and international operations is beneficial
• Comfortable in a high-growth, entrepreneurial, and innovation-led setting
• Strong technical grounding with ACA, ACCA or equivalent qualification

Competencies

• Strategic thinker with strong commercial instincts
• Technically excellent, with sharp analytical and financial acumen
• Confident communicator
• Collaborative, confident leader—able to engage and influence at all levels
• Proactive, hands-on, and able to get into the operational detail when needed
• Enthusiastic about the potential of AI to transform marketing and finance

What we offer

• Competitive compensation
• Senior finance role with high influence on the direction of the business
• An entrepreneurial, collaborative and multi-cultural environment
• A front-row seat in shaping the future of insight and AI-powered consultancy
• Hybrid working attached to Verve’s London hub

Please send your CV and a short note on why you think this role is the right next step for you.

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