Commercial Finance Business Partner

Marc Daniels Specialist Recruitment; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Business Manager to support financial operations for major retailers. The successful candidate will forecast performance, drive profitability analysis, and provide commercial insights. Ideally, candidates should have significant finance experience, preferably within FMCG, and relevant qualifications such as CIMA, ACA, or ACCA. This role offers hybrid working options and significant career progression opportunities.

Qualifications

• Significant post-qualified experience in finance; FMCG experience preferred.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Finance Business Partner for major retailers.
• Forecasting and budgeting responsibilities.
• Collaborate with Sales team for financial models.

Skills

Financial analysis

Communication skills

Data interpretation

Education

CIMA / ACA / ACCA qualified

Job description

Senior Business Manager - Recruiting Finance roles in West London, Thames Valley Regions and Central London

An International FMCG business is currently experiencing exponential growth and is looking to expand their Commercial Finance team.

My client is currently recruiting for a Commercial Finance Business Partner role reporting into the Head of Commercial Finance. The role and business offers excellent hybrid working options and excellent progression opportunities for the right individual.

Responsibilities:

• Finance Business Partner with the account managers for the major retailers
• Forecasting, understanding financial performance and promotions profitability
• Be responsible for new product sign offs and investment appraisals.
• Collaborate closely with the Sales team to determine financial models specifically related to cost price negotiations
• Brand, product category and product reporting – sales (volume & mix), cost, margin.
• Analyse and report on brand profitability.
• Sales reporting and analysis for senior level stakeholders.
• Analysis of KPI reports including channel, customer, product profitability providing investigation and commentary on variance to plan for a range of senior Directors.
• Month end commentary and analysis of sales and margin comparisons to budget and prior year, liaison with Commercial team to understand/challenge and draw insight on performance, risks and opportunities
• Robust commercial, trend and business analysis across customer, categories & products
• Interpretation of large stack quantitative and qualitative data, provide meaningful insight to drive action in conjunction with the Commercial Director and commercial teams
• Ensure complex information and data is turned into clear and digestible information
• Support decision making across the commercial teams with insightful and accurate recommendations
• Monitor, analyse and evaluate promotional and marketing spend vs sales growth and net margin across channels and customers
• Responsible for setting up, maintaining, and auditing contract pricing and bespoke promotions file
• Responsible for updating and maintaining customer terms & overriders tracker by account
• Taking a lead role in the budgeting and forecasting process working with commercial and finance teams
• Work closely with Finance team to ensure accurate allocation of deductions, understanding drivers of distribution,
• Building partnerships and maintaining strong relationships with all senior managers and their team
• Support the planning and budgeting process around production, distribution, costing and purchasing.
• Highlight future performance concerns and opportunities and take a lead role in planning commercial activities required to remediate any gaps to target.

Requirements:

• Finance professional with significant post qualified experience; FMCG experience preferred
• CIMA /ACA/ACCA Qualified preferred
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to influence at all levels

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates.