Commercial Finance Business Partner - French Speaking

Advancing People; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

An established recruitment agency is seeking a French-speaking Commercial Finance Business Partner for a leading global manufacturer in Sheffield. This role involves driving strategic financial decisions and partnering with commercial teams in the UK and France. Ideal candidates will have a finance qualification and experience in business partnering, with strong analytical and leadership skills. The position offers a competitive salary of £55-£65k with additional benefits, including a 10% bonus and a hybrid working model.

Benefits

10% bonus

25 days holiday with the opportunity to purchase up to 5 days

7.5% pension

Private BUPA health plan

Cycle to work salary sacrifice initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in a business partnering role, preferably within manufacturing.
• Qualified or in final stages of a recognised Finance qualification (CIMA, ACCA).
• Fluent in both English and French at a professional level.

Responsibilities

• Drive strategic financial decision-making and support commercial growth.
• Lead commercial forecasting and pricing decisions.
• Provide financial insights, analysis, and guidance to optimise performance.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Leadership skills

Interpersonal skills

Fluent French

Fluent English

Education

Recognised Finance qualification (CIMA, ACCA)

Tools

OneStream

HFM

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Are you a French-speaking Commercial Finance Business Partner OR are you looking for your next step and business partnering forms part of your current role, but you would like to do more?

Are you keen to join a leading global manufacturer to accelerate your career?

If so, our client is keen to hear from you!

The Role:

You will be driving the strategic financial decision-making and support commercial growth initiatives across the business. You will act as a key business partner to the commercial teams in the UK and France, providing financial insight, analysis, and guidance to optimise revenue, profitability, and operational efficiency.

The role is responsible for leading commercial forecasting, supporting effective pricing decisions and controls, commercial performance reporting, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives and market dynamics. Championing data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement in financial processes to support sustainable business growth.

More Detail:

• Embed robust commercial insights into the S&OP process to support informed decision-making and drive improved business performance.
• Lead and continuously enhance the commercial budgeting and forecasting process, ensuring key variances (e.g., volume, price, mix, inflation) are clearly understood and providing value-added analysis to support performance improvement.
• Deliver strategic financial guidance and insights to Commercial, Product Management, and R&D teams to support growth and optimise commercial performance.
• Foster strong partnerships with Commercial and Country FP&A teams, championing a culture of financial ownership, accountability, and transparency.
• Produce and validate high-quality financial reporting and analytics to support variance analysis and deliver actionable insights across the organisation.
• Ensure timely and accurate completion of core financial responsibilities, including period close, SOX compliance, statutory reporting, and year-end audit processes.

The Person:

You will be responsible for managing a UK Pricing Analyst; therefore, we are looking for you to have strong leadership and team management skills.

English and French language skills are essential, and you must be flexible to travel between the UK, Sheffield office and office in France.

Our client offers hybrid-working with 2-3 days per week in Sheffield with monthly travel to France.

Ideally you will live within a commutable distance of Sheffield, but the client could offer flexibility if a candidate has particularly relevant commercial finance experience, within manufacturing.

You could be a commercial finance business partner currently OR could be a finance manager, management accountant or analyst, looking for your next step.

More Detail:

• Qualified or in final stages of a recognised Finance qualification (e.g., CIMA, ACCA) or equivalent.
• Experience in a business partnering role, preferably within a manufacturing or similar industry.
• Fluent in English and French language skills to a professional level.
• Strong analytical skills, comfortable with big data sets and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Proficient in financial software and tools, preferably OneStream / HFM and BI systems (Power Bi / Tableau).
• Good relationship management and influencing skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively.
• Make sense of complex, high quantity and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Continually looking to challenge and facilitate a continuous improvement culture.
• Happy to work on a hybrid basis onsite in the UK (Sheffield) and France (Eauze).
• Flexible to travel, with monthly/bi-monthly travel between the UK and France required.

Our client is offering a basic salary of £55-£65k PA + 10% bonus, 25 days holiday with the opportunity to purchase up to 5 days, 7.5% pension, private BUPA health plan/ medicash health plan electric car and cycle to work salary sacrifice initiatives.

If you are a fluent French and English speaker and have the commercial finance experience our client is looking for, apply now or contact Dominic Quirke at Advancing People directly, in complete confidence.

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