Commercial Finance Business Partner

Commercial Finance Business Partner - Harrogate - £40,000 - £45,000
Sewell Wallis are delighted to be working with a well-known manufacturing business based in the Harrogate area that are looking to recruit a Commercial Finance Business Partner.
If you have obtained or studying towards a recognised accounting qualification (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) with ability to demonstrate commercial experience and awareness, then this is a great opportunity to join a well-established finance team with plenty of opportunityto enhance your career.
The role supports the growth and profitability of the business, integral to delivering financial plans and championing the improvement of supporting systems and processes. Business partnering with internal stakeholders across the business to efficiently analyse,project and manage commercial costs and activity.
Key tasks and responsibilities
- Responsible for supporting the production and improvement of financial forecasts. Developing relationships with stakeholders to be a trusted business partner to support commercial decision making
- Take ownership of key responsibilities and support other areas to produce short
- and long-term financial modelling and forecasts
- Support the development and adaptation of systems and processes to support financial planning processes and improved ways of working and understanding
- Support development of systems and processes to support understanding of product success / profitability
- Support development of systems and processes to support understanding of cost of goods
- Support development of systems and processes to support understanding of sales discounts
- Supporting internal stakeholders on financial matters including (but not limited to):
a. Budget management - To ensure costs are controlled and understood, that processes are in place to appropriately track spend.
b. Driving accountability for management of costs
c. New product development - supporting the gate process to support product decisions
Supporting understand of sales, margin, and impact of discounts on profitability of channels and customers
d. Supporting commercial teams in development of business cases to support new initiatives
Key Partnerships
- Financial control team to understand and interpret impact of historical financial information.
- Financial control team to support understanding of sales and margin
- Commercial teams to support new business initiatives and understanding of sales and margin information
- New product development team to consider product level performance and support the gate process
- IT teams to develop and improve systems for financial planning and reporting
- Operations team to develop cost reporting and control
- Demand planning team to align sales unit forecasts and financial plans.
- All budget holders to support cost control and return on investment
Knowledge & experience
- Be a team player, flexible, adaptable and able to manage a variety of tasks
- Super user of planning and reporting tool
- Have obtained or be studying towards a recognised accounting qualification (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) with ability to demonstrate commercial experience and awareness.
- Good emotional intelligence and ability to work with anyone in the company.
- Effective communication showing an ability to be concise
- Excellent analytical skills.
- Good excel skills
- Confident in using and enhancing use of financial systems
For further information please contact Danny Potter at Sewell Wallis or click on the link to apply.
Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levelswithin finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester.Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.