Finance Business Partner

Maldon Salt is a fourth-generation, family-owned business with an impressive brand story. They have been producing their iconic sea salt flakes on the Essex coast since 1882. Today they are recognised globally as a premium product, proudly holding a Royal Warrant. Alongside this heritage, there is a clear focus on growth, sustainability and evolving how the business operates commercially.

As part of the FP&A team, the Commercial Finance Business Partner will be embedded within Sales and Marketing. You will bring high quality financial insight, robust performance and margin analysis, commercial judgement and constructive challenge to key decisions across pricing, promotional investment, demand planning and broader commercial priorities.

Success in this role means that finance is seen as a credible and valued partner to Sales and Marketing with insight and constructive challenge helping shape decisions rather than simply reviewing outcomes.

What you’ll be doing

• Build credibility and trusted relationships across the business
• Analysing sales, pricing, margin and mix to explain performance and drive action
• Deliver clear analysis of sales, volume, price, margin and mix by customer, channel and product, explaining performance drivers
• Provision of decision ready commentary for management and executive reviews to support action, margin improvement and more efficient commercial decisions
• Partner with Sales and Marketing on decisions around promotions, NPD and product range
• Providing insight and challenge within the demand planning (S&OP) process
• Building models, dashboards and improving reporting (Excel / Power BI)

What they’re looking for

• Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA)
• Experience in commercial finance/FP&A/business partnering
• Ideally FMCG or product-led environment experience
• Strong analytical capability with the confidence to influence stakeholders
• Advance Excel, strong modelling capability with experience in Power BI (or similar)
• Experience managing projects or workstreams, coordinating across functions and driving delivery in a practical and focused way