Brand Finance Partner: Drive Profitable Growth

All About Food Ltd; Manchester; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

All About Food Ltd in Manchester is seeking a Finance Business Partner – Brand to own financial performance, planning and decision support across the brand portfolio. This role suits a commercially minded, curious finance professional who can influence Brand, Sales, Category and Supply Chain.

You will help brand teams understand performance drivers, challenge forecasts and business cases, and support decisions that improve NSV, gross profit and EBITDA, turning numbers into actionable

Qualifications

• Part qualified, recently qualified or qualified by experience, with strong commercial finance capability.
• ACCA/ACA/CIMA qualification is desirable but not mandatory for all levels.
• A proactive, collaborative mindset with ability to influence stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Brand teams to explain performance, identify risks and opportunities, and support commercially sound decisions.
• Produce clear brand reporting that explains key drivers of sales, NSV, gross profit, operating costs and EBITDA versus budget, forecast and prior year.
• Build and maintain brand P&Ls, business cases and financial models that support NPD, EPD, retailer initiatives and strategic projects.
• Work closely with Sales, Category and Net Revenue Growth teams to connect brand plans with retailer performance, pricing, promotion and mix opportunities.
• Challenge commercial assumptions constructively, ensuring plans are realistic, evidence-based and aligned to profitable growth.
• Identify trends, risks and opportunities across brands, retailers and categories, turning analysis into recommended actions.
• Support annual budget, rolling forecast and scenario planning cycles through robust assumptions, analysis and stakeholder challenge.
• Evaluate brand investment, consumer marketing spend, innovation and activation plans to ensure decisions are grounded in value creation.
• Improve finance processes by simplifying routines, documenting ways of working and creating repeatable tools and templates.
• Help build financial awareness across the business by making complex brand performance information simple, useful and action-oriented.

Skills

Commercial finance

Stakeholder management

Brand finance

P&L analysis

Forecasting

Data analysis

Influencing

Communication

Education

ACCA/ACA/CIMA

Job description

All About Food Ltd in Manchester is seeking a Finance Business Partner – Brand to own financial performance, planning and decision support across the brand portfolio. This role suits a commercially minded, curious finance professional who can influence Brand, Sales, Category and Supply Chain.

You will help brand teams understand performance drivers, challenge forecasts and business cases, and support decisions that improve NSV, gross profit and EBITDA, turning numbers into actionable