Senior Commercial Finance Business Partner
9 months ago
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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