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Commercial Finance Business Partner

Maidenhead
2 weeks ago
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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 levelsBy applying you will be registered as a candidate with Marc Daniels Specialist Recruitment Limited. Our Privacy Policy is available on our website and explains how we will use your personal data

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