Senior Commercial Finance Business Partner

1 month ago

Watford, United Kingdom Marc Daniels Specialist Recruitment Full time

An International FMCG business is currently experiencing exponential growth and is looking to expand their Finance team. My client is currently recruiting for a Senior Commercial Finance Business Partner with significant exposure to the CFO and CEO.

The role and business offer excellent hybrid working options and excellent progression opportunities for the right individual.

**Responsibilities**:

- Brand, product category and product reporting - sales (volume & mix), cost, margin.
- 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
- Ensure complex information and data is turned into clear and digestible information
- Support decision making across the commercial teams with insightful and accurate recommendations
- 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.
- Manage the Financial, Planning and Analysis Processes
- Create and maintain financial models to support decision making and business planning.
- Analyse financial performance and provide insights to the leadership team on key financial and operational metrics.
- Oversee the period close
- Ensure costs and revenue streams are correctly accounted for.
- Responsible for the daily, weekly, and monthly revenue and cost reporting
- Variance analysis of actuals vs prior year, budget and forecast. Investigating and explain why variances have occurred and how these can be mitigated going forward.
- Manage the budgeting and forecasting process, ensuring alignment with business objectives and strategies.
- Monitor budget performance and provide recommendations to improve financial outcomes.
- Develop and maintain a robust forecasting model that provides insight into business performance and opportunities.

**Requirements**:

- Finance professional with significant qualified experience; FMCG experience preferred
- CIMA / ACA/ACCA preferred
- Strong verbal and written communication skills to influence at all levels

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