Senior Finance Business Partner

5 months ago


Ascot, United Kingdom De Beers Group of Companies Full time

**Company Description
- Element Six is a global leader in the design, development and production of synthetic diamond and tungsten carbide supermaterials. Part of the De Beers Group, we employ over 1,900 people. Our primary manufacturing sites are located in the UK, Ireland, Germany, South Africa, and the US.
Our mission

We strive to deliver extreme performance through the development of cutting-edge synthetic diamond and tungsten carbide solutions.

Our history

Since 1959, our focus has been on developing the diamond synthesis process to enable innovative synthetic diamond and tungsten carbide solutions. As well as being the planet’s hardest material, diamond’s extreme and diverse properties give it high tensile strength, chemical inertness, broad optical transmission and very high thermal conductivity.

**You can find out more about who we are and what we do on our website**:
**Job Description**:

- Job overview

To act as the trusted senior business partner to the Technology (CVD) Business Unit Directors and their teams in Ascot, California and Oregon with the support of your team of 4 by providing financial decision support and counsel.

To undertake the full scope of Technologies Management Reporting activities including shareholder reporting, Scorecards, Technical Decks, and actively participate as part of the Technologies (CVD) Leadership Team.

Preparation and consolidation of Technologies Budget and Forecasting activities including Revenue Projection, Cost Forecasts, and identifying risks and opportunities.

Provide Business Support for the Head of Sales and Marketing for Technologies to optimize the financial impact of commercial and innovation investment decisions.

Work with the Product Management Teams to develop the annual 5-year plans for both business units and innovations, reflecting any change in strategic direction and any associated impact on margins expected Opex and Capex.

Responsible for the financial management of a portfolio of Innovation projects, ensuring projects are prioritised, giving consideration to income, costs and impairments, and capital and balance sheet requirements.

Lead and Develop the CVD (Technologies) Finance Team to develop the team. Drive standardization across Finance and being a key member of the Finance Leadership Team of E6.

Duties and tasks
- Develop pricing strategy, tactics, and decisions
- Partner with Head of Sales to structure new business proposals
- Support to ensure product costings drive commercial behaviours
- Long-term planning for margin optimisation
- Contract modelling, sensitivity analysis, and scenario planning to facilitate contract negotiations and review
- Management of product mix
- Provide monthly forecast updates
- Provide weekly and monthly actual sales reports, by business unit and customer.
- Perform product and customer portfolio profit analysis
- Manage and monitor the Short Interval Control Bonus scheme.
- Provide commercial data at Gate Reviews, reporting progress and ensuring due diligence of any assumptions made.
- Responsibility for optimisation of operating working capital, including inventory.
- Driving standardisation of finance processes in collaboration with the wider finance team
- Ensuring Sales and Marketing costs are well controlled, including preparation of monthly Commercial and Marketing cost reporting.
- Flexible support across Finance Function Globally

**Qualifications**:

- Experience working in a commercial environment
- Effective communicator across geographies and levels of a business
- A qualified accountant who has previous experience in cost accounting would be an advantage
- A good understanding of fundamental accounting principles
- Works in a collaborative way with both business and finance colleagues
- Strong sense of ownership
- A positive attitude and enjoy working in a small team
- How attention to detail and pride in their work
- Have strong problem-solving skills
- Experience in managing and developing a team



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