Commercial Finance Manager (UK Remote)

Company Description

When you join Turnitin, you'll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in global education. For over 25 years, Turnitin has partnered with educators and institutions to develop learning integrity solutions that recognize the enduring value of critical thinking in a rapidly changing world. Over 16,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services in more than 185 countries around the world: Turnitin Feedback Studio, Clarity, Originality, Gradescope, ExamSoft, Similarity, and iThenticate. Protecting the value of an authentic education is at the heart of who we are.

Experience a remote-first culture that empowers you to work with purpose and accountability in a way that best suits you, supported by a comprehensive package that prioritizes your overall well-being. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education.

Turnitin is a global organization with team members in over 35 countries including the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, India, and the Philippines.

Job Description

Sitting within the FP&A function, this role will play a critical role across many of our key reporting and insights activities. You will undergo the calculation of commissions and one off incentive payments, provide financial insight across various areas, and support the implementation of company wide dashboards through various tools, predominantly Pigment & Tableau.

This role will allow the successful candidate to be a part of a growing business, with deep financial, operational, and commercial exposure. You will add value through supporting sales performance, maintaining incentive plan accuracy, and delivering on both short- and long-term commercial initiatives, focussing on turning data into analytics and insight.

It is imperative that the successful candidate has recent experience working as a senior commercial finance analyst/commercial finance manager with strong data visualization skills, especially through Tableau (required) and Pigment (desirable). Experience of commissions calculations and SaaS revenue exposure is highly desirable.

Key Accountabilities

• Build, maintain, and optimize interactive dashboards in Tableau to democratize financial data and provide real-time, actionable performance metrics to sales leaders and executives.
• Manage the end-to-end computation, validation, and reporting of complex, multi-tiered sales commission and incentive structures, ensuring absolute accuracy and alignment with commercial contracts.
• Administer and enhance specialized sales incentive platforms (SPIFF) to streamline payouts, model new plans, and improve visibility for the sales team.
• Provide value-adding financial insight, support, and challenge by building effective working relationships at all levels, including senior sales managers and other cross-functional departments in the business.
• Continually identify and implement improvements to business processes to increase efficiency and ensure all commercial data is captured accurately and in an effective manner.
• Support ad hoc requests for analysis and information from the FP&A Team, Senior Managers & Executives within the business.
• Be comfortable with defining and owning what should be part of the role and communicating effectively to leadership where a process or output should sit under a different team, to make us as operationally effective as possible.

Qualifications

The Successful Applicant

An ambitious individual with drive, a sharp commercial edge, and a passion for data visualization. You will be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, willing to be hands-on, with the desire to immerse yourself in the operational and sales side of the business. You will proactively seek opportunities to raise standards, and drive continual improvement throughout our financial systems.

The successful candidate will meet the following requirements:

• 6-8 years of relevant work experience in a commercial finance, revenue analysis, or FP&A department.
• Advanced Tableau skills (essential) with hands-on experience manipulating large, complex datasets and building executive-level dashboards.
• Direct experience calculating and managing complex sales commissions and multi-tiered incentive schemes.
• Proven experience in a revenue-focused role with strong exposure to revenue recognition principles and sales pipelines - critical for understanding our commissions process.
• Strong system savvy, with experience using modern sales incentive platforms (e.g., Spiff, CaptivateIQ, Xactly) highly desirable, alongside solid Excel skills and CRM tools (e.g., Salesforce).
• CIMA/ACCA/ACA Qualified, Part-Qualified, or equivalent experience is preferred/a bonus but not essential.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with a high attention to detail, accuracy, and resourcefulness.
• Self-starter with the ability to work cross-functionally as well as independently in a remote environment.
• Strong team player with the ability to learn quickly and manage tight deadlines in a fast-paced commercial environment.

Salary, Location & Working Model

• Salary: £70,000 – £75,000 per annum (depending on experience) + benefits package.
• Working Model: UK Remote-based role.
• Travel: Occasional fully-funded travel to our Newcastle office (approximately once every 1 to 2 months) for team collaboration and planning days.

Additional Information

Total Rewards @ Turnitin
At Turnitin, we believe Total Rewards go far beyond pay. While salary, bonus, or commission are important, they’re only part of the value you receive in exchange for your work.

Beyond compensation, you’ll experience the intrinsic rewards of unleashing your potential and making a positive impact on global education. You’ll also thrive in a culture free of politics, surrounded by humble, inclusive, and collaborative teammates.

In addition, our extrinsic rewards include generous time off and health and wellness programs that provide choice, flexibility, and a safety net for life’s challenges. You’ll also enjoy a remote-first culture that empowers you to work with purpose and accountability in the way that suits you best, all supported by a comprehensive package that prioritizes your overall well-being.

Our Mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes.

Our Values underpin everything we do.

• Customer Centric: Our mission is focused on improving learning outcomes; we do this by putting educators and learners at the center of everything we do.
• Passion for Learning: We are committed to our own learning and growth internally. And we support education and learning around the globe.
• Integrity: Integrity is the heartbeat of Turnitin—it is the core of our products, the way we treat each other, and how we work with our customers and vendors.
• Action & Ownership: We have a bias for action. We act like owners. We are willing to change even when it’s hard.
• One Team: We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each others' successes.
• Global Mindset: We consider different perspectives and celebrate diversity. We are one team. The work we do has an impact on the world.

Global Benefits

• Remote First Culture
• Health Care Coverage*
• Education Reimbursement*
• Competitive Paid Time Off 
• Self-Care Days
• National Holidays*
• 2 Founder Days + Juneteenth Observed
• Paid Volunteer Time*
• Charitable contribution match*
• Monthly Wellness or Home Office Reimbursement/*
• Access to Modern Health (mental health platform)
• Parental Leave*
• Retirement Plan with match/contribution*

* varies by country

Seeing Beyond the Job Ad
At Turnitin, we recognize it’s unrealistic for candidates to fulfill 100% of the criteria in a job ad.  We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of the requirements because we know that skills evolve over time. If you’re willing to learn and unleash your potential alongside us, join our team!

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