Commercial Finance Partner: Growth & Profitability

Schneider Electric Corp; Leeds; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 86,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Flexible work options

Career development

Job summary

Schneider Electric is seeking a commercially focused Senior Specialist, Business Finance Commercial to partner with leaders across our UK & Ireland Systems business. You’ll turn financial data into insight, challenge thinking and help drive growth, profitability and operational performance.

This role blends finance, commercial insight and business partnering in a fast-moving environment, offering exposure to pricing, forecasting and strategic projects within a multinational tech company.

Qualifications

• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Commerce or related discipline.
• Professional accounting qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA or equivalent.
• 3+ years' experience in finance business partnering or a commercially focused finance role.
• Strong understanding of P&L management, budgeting, forecasting and financial modelling.
• Good understanding of project finance and commercial performance.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Confidence partnering with and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Ability to challenge constructively and turn complex financial information into clear recommendations.
• Experience improving processes or supporting finance transformation.
• A proactive, curious and commercially minded approach.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders to improve growth, profitability and operational performance.
• Provide financial analysis and recommendations that support strategic decisions.
• Identify commercial risks and opportunities and help turn them into clear actions.
• Support pricing, margin optimisation and cost improvement initiatives.
• Provide financial input into tenders and major project reviews.
• Lead forecasting, budgeting and risk and opportunity analysis.
• Analyse business performance and explain the key drivers behind results.
• Strengthen financial controls, governance and risk management.
• Drive improvements across reporting, financial processes, ERP systems and analytics.

Skills

Finance partnering

Commercial analysis

P&L management

Budgeting & forecasting

Financial modelling

Stakeholder management

Process improvement

Education

Degree in Finance/Accounting/Commerce

Professional accounting qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA/CPA)

Job description

Schneider Electric is seeking a commercially focused Senior Specialist, Business Finance Commercial to partner with leaders across our UK & Ireland Systems business. You’ll turn financial data into insight, challenge thinking and help drive growth, profitability and operational performance.

This role blends finance, commercial insight and business partnering in a fast-moving environment, offering exposure to pricing, forecasting and strategic projects within a multinational tech company.