Commercial Finance Business Partner in Slough)

Marc Daniels Specialist Recruitment Ltd; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing FMCG company in Slough is seeking a Commercial Finance Business Partner to support financial decision-making within the commercial teams. The role involves forecasting, brand profitability analysis, and collaborating with sales. Candidates should possess a finance qualification (CIMA / ACA / ACCA) and have strong communication skills. This role offers excellent hybrid working options and opportunities for career growth.

Benefits

Hybrid work options

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Post-qualified experience in finance, preferably in FMCG.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with account managers for major retailers.
• Forecast financial performance and profitability of promotions.
• Analyze and report on brand profitability and sales.

Skills

Finance business partnering

Data analysis

Communication skills

Education

CIMA / ACA / ACCA Qualification

Job description

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

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