Finance Business Partner - Brand and Commercial

A G Barr plc; Cumbernauld; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Finance Business Partner, where you'll be at the heart of driving brand performance in a dynamic FMCG environment. This role offers the opportunity to collaborate with marketing and commercial teams, leveraging your financial expertise to influence strategic decisions and enhance business performance. With a commitment to diversity and employee development, this innovative firm provides a competitive salary and an array of benefits, ensuring that your contributions are recognized and rewarded. If you're ready to make an impact and grow your career, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Uncapped bonus linked to business performance

Defined contribution Pension

Up to 34 days holiday

Flexible holiday trading

Healthcare Cash Plan

Life assurance

Staff sales discount

Free AG Barr products

Annual salary review

Ongoing professional development

Qualifications

• 3+ years post-qualification experience in finance.
• Strong financial analysis and business partnering skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide finance management to marketing and commercial teams.
• Drive business performance through financial analysis and reporting.

Skills

Financial analysis

Business planning

Communication skills

Risk management

People management

Negotiation skills

Education

Qualified Accountant

Tools

Accounting information systems

Job description

Job Title:Finance Business Partner - Brand and Commercial

Location:Any AG Barr Hub ( Cumbernauld, Milton Keynes,Middlebrook, Camden)

Contract and working pattern: Permanent, 37.5 hours, Hybrid Working

Are you ready to Be Your Best Barr None?

Lets Grow!!!

We are all about Being Your Best Barr None and having a career with real Moments that Matter!

Employing around 850 people across the UK, we are proud to be a responsible business that takes care of our people, values diversity, gives something back to our communities and works to minimise our environmental impact.

For 150 years AG Barr has been building great brands and is home to some of the nations favourite flavours.

At our core is IRN-BRU, launched in 1901 and still going strong today, the vibrant RUBICON fruit based brand, Boost making every moment better with a caffeine kick, hydration hit or tasty treat, and FUNKIN where real fruit means authentic taste.

We also have a number of exciting owned brands within our portfolio including MOMA, which crafts quality oats into great tasting oat drinks and porridges.

There's never been a better time to join us!

What we’re looking for…

As a Finance Business Partner looking our Brand and Commercial divisions - you will provide excellent finance management and partnership to business leaders, marketing and commercial teams to drive business performance in an FMCG Commercial environment.

You will leverage your deep understanding of financial analysis, strategic planning, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver value and drive the growth of our brands. Owning our brand & innovation planning and reporting for finance along with all marketing and commercial investment you will consistently driving a continuous improvement agenda through simplification, standardisation and automation.

Your responsibilities will include...

Business Partnering

• Business Partner to the Marketing Director, Commercial Managing Director along with their teams to execute the functional strategy by bringing an unrelenting focus on driving business performance
• Represent finance on the brand hubs for IRN-BRU, Rubicon & Boost. Leverage financial expertise to provide rigour, high quality analysis and insight in brand performance reviews
• Represent Commercial Finance to support the business innovation & enterprise processes. In particular, produce, review and challenge financial evaluations on enterprise & innovation projects to assist management decisions on the development of the business. Support and provide direction to Supply finance to ensure finance commitments to Innovation are met (on time and in full)
• Influence delivery of Commercial’s performance targets by providing clear, value adding reporting, analysis and insight to business partners on a cyclical and ad hoc basis as required

Business Performance Management

• Work with the Commercial team and Director of Commercial Finance to deliver the 3 year BSD IBP process and associated financial planning for Commercial. Work collaboratively to deliver a high quality, effective longer-term business planning process which also facilitates timely business decision making.
• Own and enhance the end to end business performance management cycle (period close, forecast, R&O, action planning) for brand reporting and marketing which manages performance against budget/forecast/prior year.
• Plan, execute and continuously improve the current pricing governance framework with the objective of increasing price defensibility, conditionality and product profitability/contribution.
• Provide timely, accurate and relevant standard reporting to the Commercial function.

Governance

• Lead rock solid financial controls within Commercial.
• Educate and support the delivery of key Governance KPIs for Commercial including improving processes that ensure a strong financial control environment exists particularly in recording and accruing marketing and commercial investment.
• Ensure that all financial accounting and control activities for each area of responsibility within the Commercial P&L and B/S are completed accurately and timely.
• Manage all internal/external audit reviews as required, ensuring timely resolution of any required management actions.

Leadership

• Coaching and development of more junior members of the team. People leader responsibilities for up to 2 graduate or qualified accountants.

What you’ll bring...

Qualifications & Relevant Experience:

• Qualified Accountant with 3+PQE and strong financial analysis skills
• Experience in a Commercial FMCG environment business partnering sales teams

Functional Skills:

• Financial accounting and reporting
• Business planning, management reporting and analysis
• Accounting information systems
• Commercial understanding
• Business and negotiation skills
• People management
• Communication verbal and written
• Risk management and internal control
• Tax strategy planning and compliance
• Corporate finance and treasury management

What we offer…

We believe in creating a diverse and inclusive culture where your voice can be heard. Our skilled, loyal and committed people are critical to the future success of AG Barr which is why we are continually investing in our employees to develop their talent.

We look after our employees by offering a competitive salary and benefits package which includes;

• Uncapped bonus linked to business performance
• Defined contribution Pension
• Up to 34 days holiday (depending on shift pattern)
• Flexible holiday trading
• Flexible cash pot to spend on benefits
• Healthcare Cash Plan
• Flexible benefits e.g. discounts & cashback, gym memberships, technology purchases etc
• Life assurance
• Save as you earn scheme
• Staff sales discount
• Free AG Barr products throughout your working day and staff sales
• Annual salary review
• Ongoing professional development and access to Learning and Development programmes and content

And much more!

To find out more about what it is like to work for AG Barr, please visit our careers platform here.

We are an equal opportunities employer and happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments that may be needed for successful candidates with a disability, health or mental health condition.

While we have highlighted our ideal requirements for this role, we are realistic that the successful candidate probably won't meet every single requirement in this advert, but we are big advocates of people growing in role. So even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we encourage you to submit an application - you may be just what we are looking for! Apply now!

Speculative CVs from agencies will not be accepted.

Latest closing date for applications is18th May 2025

Please note, we may close vacancies early where we receive significant numbers of applications, so apply now!