Head of Commercial Finance, Trainline
12 Month Fixed-Term Contract
2+ days a week in office (Holborn, London)
Train ticketing platform
Posted today
Train ticketing platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
2+ days a week in office (Holborn, London)
1001+ employees
Company mission
We're building the world's no.1 rail platform while empowering greener travel choices, connecting people and places.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for creative big thinkers with small egos to achieve our ambitious plans
- You’ll bring experience in a commercial finance or business partnering role, experience in contract terms and negotiation advantageous but not required
- You will be proactive with a can-do attitude
- You will have the ability to work at pace and energy within a growth environment – balancing the needs of multiple senior stakeholders
- A team player with a ‘roll your sleeves up’ attitude of your own, you’ll be used to thinking laterally to solve problems and challenges, and will have a passion for making meaning out of data
- Similarly, it’s vital that you bring an innate ability to distil and communicate results of complex analysis clearly and effectively to all levels of the business. Including being confident to present regularly at an Exec level
- Working independently within tight deadlines, you’ll use your understanding of best-in-class stakeholder management and proactive partnering skills to ensure your team’s insights are used to optimise business success
What the job involves
- 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
- This part of the role by its nature can work in peaks and troughs – but 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 wont have direct line management you will be 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
- This excellent leadership will also help you embed relationships with your Business partners and build strong working relationships
- The positiion will be a 12 month fixed term contract to cover parental leave and we are looking for someone who can ideally start very quickly
- Powering business growth whilst optimising for balance with shareholder return: assessing and challenging business thinking on proposed commercial terms and renegotiations: with an eye on delivering new wins and driving top line versus delivering sustainable margins
- Optimising deal terms and structures, to help deliver the best outcome for Trainline whilst understanding and balancing the needs of counterparts and likelihood of success in negotiations
- Sales budgeting & reforecasting: owning the process for setting budgets and measuring delivery against budgeted outcomes, for capturing variances to plan and understanding outturn impacts
- Strategic partnership and business case partnering: you will be part of the strategy process with the TPS function – thought partnering with the leadership team to form and size the strategy and consider any required trade offs and financial criteria for assessing them
- Holding the business to account on budget and OKR outcomes, and managing / influencing decision-making on course-corrections and adjustments to the plan
- Be the finance lead and voice in the room in Exec level forums – you will be an excellent story teller who can summarise underlying trends and share an opinion on what they mean for future trajectory and any calls to action
- Helping to set and monitor operational KPIs which align with wider goals and guide the business to success
- 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
- 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 – including any potential synergies with the existing business
- Take part in discussions with target management teams
- Support in any due diligence processes – reviewing financial information and collating summarised views of risks and opportunities linked to the acquisition
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Trainline make it super easy to book transport tickets. Their app is intuitive and well designed. and they're even pioneering paperless travel, allowing you to store your tickets in the app.
They're hyper focused on customer experience and have a product culture of fast iteration to deliver great outcomes for customers.
Their customers make 170,000 journeys a day and they sell 200 tickets a minute.
They're continuing to innovate to stay ahead. They're using machine learning to predict price movements and are integrating with Siri and Google Assistant so people can buy tickets just by speaking to their phone.
Steph
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Insights
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42% female employees
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"The complex nature of the market as we work with different suppliers is an amazing opportunity to create fluid solutions. A very well segmented..."
Funding (1 round)
Jan 2006
$202.2m
LATE VC
Total funding: $202.2m
Company benefits
- Flexible working (40% min office attendance)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Gym memberships
- Private Health and dental Insurance
- Pension (matched contributions)
- Income Protection
- Share Incentive Plan (buy one get one free)
- Learning budget
- Primary & Secondary Caregiver Leave
- Shared Parental Leave
- Enhanced sick pay
- Free Perkbox subscription
Company values
- Own It - We care about every customer, partner and journey
- Do Good - We make a positive impact
- Travel Together - We're one team
- Think Big - We are building the future of rail
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Jody Ford
(CEO, not founder)Previously Non-exec Director of Moonpig and Photobox Group.
Milena Nikolic
(Chief Technology Officer, not founder)Previously Engineering Director at Google.
Lisa Hillier
(Chief People Officer, not founder)Previously Chief People Officer at Gousto , The Restaurant Group and Just Eat.
Mike Hyde
(Chief Data Officer, not founder)Previously at Meta.
Dave Price
(Chief Product Officer, not founder)Previously at Spotify and GoEuro.
People progressing
Joined as a Product Manager. Promoted to Product Manager after 1 year. Then promoted again to Principal Product Manager after 7 months and is currently Product Director.
Joined as Business Performance Analyst. Promoted to Senior Analyst after 1.5 years. Then promoted again to Commercial Manager after 7 months.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Trainline
- 💚 Diversity drives us forward We know that having a diverse team is crucial to Trainline’s ongoing success. A team that is diverse in all forms – gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought are key to Trainline being an inclusive environment where every Trainliner can be their true self. We're committed to creating workplaces where everyone belongs, is celebrated and their differences are valued, creating an awesome employee and customer experience. 💚 Meet our Networks Our diversity networks are inclusive communities developed and led by Trainliners, with sponsorship and support from senior leaders. They're all about empowering and supporting underrepresented groups, by providing a safe space to talk, a place to come up with new ideas and a channel for voices to be heard. 🚀 Women in Leadership 💜 Artemis (gender equality) 🏳️🌈 Rainbow Train (LGBTQIA+) 🌻 Sunflower (accessibility) 🌍 Ethnic Diversity Network 🐣 Parent & Carers
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