Commercial Director (FP&A)

Company Description Click here to view how Epsilon transforms marketing with 1 View, 1 Vision, 1 Voice. Overview Overview Epsilon is seeking a highly commercial and strategic Commercial Director (FP&A) to partner with the Epsilon UK leadership team and drive business performance across the UK business and product portfolio. This role goes beyond traditional financial planning and reporting.

The successful candidate will be a trusted advisor to senior leaders, helping shape strategy, influence key decisions, identify growth opportunities, and improve profitability through insightful financial analysis and strong business partnership. A critical aspect of the role is the ability to translate complex financial and operational data into compelling business narratives, using insights and storytelling to drive action, alignment, and better decision-making across the organisation.

What You’ll Achieve You will become the person business leaders turn to when they need clarity, challenge, or a recommendation. Your insight will shape decisions, improve performance, and help Epsilon UK deliver sustainable, profitable growth. Finance is seen not just as a reporting function, but as a valued partner to the business.

Key Responsibilities Act as the lead FP&A business partner to the UK Leadership Team, providing strategic financial insight and commercial challenge.

Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes for Epsilon UK. Partner with wider Publicis UK Finance organisation to deliver on all monthly and periodic reporting and submission deadlines.

Deliver clear performance reporting, variance analysis, and actionable recommendations to improve business outcomes. Partner with Product, Commercial, Client and Operational leaders to evaluate growth opportunities, pricing strategies, and profitability initiatives. Develop financial models, business cases, and scenario analyses to support strategic decision-making. Translate data and financial performance into compelling business stories that influence stakeholders and drive action.

Develop and track key business KPIs, ensuring leaders have clear visibility of performance, risks, and opportunities.

Lead and develop the FP&A team while driving continuous improvement, automation, and reporting excellence. Qualifications

• Experience : 8+ years of FP&A, Commercial Finance, or Strategic Finance
• experience : including leadership responsibility. Professional accounting or finance qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA or equivalent). Proven
• experience : partnering with senior executives and influencing business decisions.

Demonstrated ability to tell compelling stories through data, simplifying complex information into clear business insights and recommendations. Strong commercial acumen with the ability to connect financial performance to business strategy. Advanced financial modelling, forecasting, and analytical capabilities. Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills. Experience with ERP, planning, and analytics tools, including Power BI and similar platforms. Proven ability to lead high-performing teams in a fast-paced, growth-focused environment.

When you join Epsilon, we’ll create something EPIC together. We’re a global leader in data and identity, with deep expertise in digital media, clean rooms, customer data platforms, loyalty and marketing services. Positioned at the center of Publicis Groupe, Epsilon helps brands deliver personalized experiences at scale and build lasting customer relationships by unlocking the full potential of data and identity. Epsilon operates in 30+ countries across EMEA, the Americas and APAC, with more than 8,000 employees. Check out a few of these resources to learn more about what makes Epsilon so EPIC:

https://www.epsilon.com/us/about-us/our-culture-epsilon Life at Epsilon: https://www.epsilon.com/us/about-us/epic-blog Epsilon has five values that define our culture and guide us as we create value for our clients, our people and consumers. We seek candidates who align with our company values, demonstrate them and make them meaningful in their day-to-day work: Act with integrity. We are transparent and have the courage to do the right thing.

Work together to win together. We believe collaboration is the catalyst that unlocks our full potential. Innovate with purpose. We shape the market with big ideas that drive big outcomes. Respect all voices. We embrace differences and foster a culture of connection and belonging. Empower with accountability. We trust each other to own and deliver on common goals. Because You Matter We know that we have some of the brightest and most talented employees in the world, and we believe in rewarding them accordingly.

If you work here, expect competitive compensation, a great benefits package and endless opportunities to advance your career. We offer hybrid working opportunities, with our office space located in the Iconic Television Centre, White City. As part of our dedication to enhance our inclusive and diverse workforce, Epsilon is committed to equal access to opportunity for people without regard to race, age, sex, disability, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy and parental, marriage and civil partnership or religion or belief.

We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments for candidates in our application process. #LI-TF1 Key Responsibilities Act as the lead FP&A business partner to the UK Leadership Team, providing strategic financial insight and commercial challenge.

Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes for Epsilon UK. Partner with wider Publicis UK Finance organisation to deliver on all monthly and periodic reporting and submission deadlines.

Deliver clear performance reporting, variance analysis, and actionable recommendations to improve business outcomes. Partner with Product, Commercial, Client and Operational leaders to evaluate growth opportunities, pricing strategies, and profitability initiatives. Develop financial models, business cases, and scenario analyses to support strategic decision-making. Translate data and financial performance into compelling business stories that influence stakeholders and drive action.

Develop and track key business KPIs, ensuring leaders have clear visibility of performance, risks, and opportunities.

Lead and develop the FP&A team while driving continuous improvement, automation, and reporting excellence.

• Experience : 8+ years of FP&A, Commercial Finance, or Strategic Finance
• experience : including leadership responsibility. Professional accounting or finance qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA or equivalent). Proven
• experience : partnering with senior executives and influencing business decisions.

Demonstrated ability to tell compelling stories through data, simplifying complex information into clear business insights and recommendations. Strong commercial acumen with the ability to connect financial performance to business strategy. Advanced financial modelling, forecasting, and analytical capabilities. Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills. Experience with ERP, planning, and analytics tools, including Power BI and similar platforms. Proven ability to lead high-performing teams in a fast-paced, growth-focused environment.