As the Commercial Finance Business Partner you’ll become a trusted partner to Marketing brand teams, where you’ll influence key operational and strategic decisions.  You’ll do this by providing detailed and insightful analysis, commentary, advice, and challenging where appropriate.  You’ll develop an in depth understanding of your category, reviewing the key levers that influence P&L performance (both internal & external), provide monthly financial analysis, insight and explanation of performance, highlighting emerging issues or trends and making recommendations on corrective actions.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Interpret, translate, and drive performance within the business and explain operational targets into executable in-year plans.
• Partnering with Marketing Teams to drive actions to meet targets (pricing, promo ROI, sales, margin, variable costs, overheads, EBITDA, working capital, ROI etc)
• Review actual performance (pricing, promo ROI, sales, margin, variable costs, overheads, EBITDA, working capital, ROI etc) with a view to making recommendations and provoking interventions required to drive down costs, improve margins and convert P&L into cash
• Own and drive initiatives focused on closing variances with the business.
• Leverage analyses provided by FP&A to drive business choices, by overlaying the commercial acumen and insight.
• Work with the management team to define planning assumptions, risks and investment opportunities.

We’re looking for an experienced, fully qualified, commercially focused finance business partner who is used to the demanding challenges of working in a fast paced FMCG (or similar) finance team. You’re collaborative, curious and not opposed to getting into the detail.  You’re able to bring the numbers to life for non-finance colleagues and confident in challenging stakeholders in the right way.  We look for people who are focused on getting results, embrace learning and bring positive energy, combining initiative with a sense of teamwork and collaboration. 

• Experience of managing a full P&L and variance analysis, plus KPI reporting.
• Good Financial analysis experience – you’re used to working with large volume of data and managing large data sets.
• Good communication and written skills with the ability to engage people at all levels, with the ability to influence business and finance colleagues.
• Ability to bring multiple stakeholders and conflicting viewpoints to an objective resolution.
• Constructively challenge assumptions and thinking.
• Graduate calibre with accounting qualification (ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) and a min of 2 years PQE having worked in a fast paced environment as a Commercial Finance Business Partner.