Finance Business Partner

**Finance Business Partner - Sales**

**Based**: High Wycombe

**Term**: Permanent, Full time

**Salary**: £65000 - £70000 pa + excellent benefits

**The Role**

As part of our Group Finance Team, this Finance Business Partner will be responsible for providing insight and financial reporting and modelling support to the Group Chief Revenue Officer with a particular focus on our Content Creation Division. They will ensure that monthly reporting for all the sales regions is developed and available on a timely basis, as well as providing ad hoc project support.

**Essential Functions and Major Responsibilities**:

- Monthly sales and gross margin analysis delivered accurately and on time, providing key management information to the Chief Revenue officer and the regional heads of APAC and EMEA.
- Provide insightful trend analysis on performance.
- Support the development and preparation of quarterly sales forecasts by brand and by region.
- Support of the Group annual budget and quarterly reforecast processes.
- Identity key financial risks and opportunities.
- Management of key senior commercial stakeholders.
- Proactively seek out areas for continuous improvement.

**Monthly Reporting**
- Development of monthly, and potentially more frequent, sales and margin reports on a global basis for the Content Creation division.
- Focussed reports to support the sales VPs of EMEA and APAC.
- Co-ordination with the US Finance team to ensure consistent reports available to the US Sales VP.
- Insight and analysis into variances in the sales and margin reports.
- Reporting and insight into the cost budgets of the global and regional sales and marketing teams.
- Plan and manage maintenance of OTE (On Target Earnings) records for all sales & marketing staff.
- Keep multi-currency, multi-region & multi-brand price lists up to date.
- Develop and maintain Power BI reports.

**Forecasting and Budgeting**
- Support annual sales budgeting process, working with marketing, product specialists, sales, and technical support to understand changes in demand versus seasonality / historical performance.
- Manage sales forecast on a quarterly basis.
- Coordinate forecast of sales and marketing costs across the Content Creation division.

**Business Partnering**
- Providing financial support to the Group Chief Revenue Officer and EMEA and APAC Sales VPs.
- This may include analysis of promotions and support for bonus scheme development.
- Collate reports from customers and regional offices for presentation.
- Support with insight and presentations for meetings.

**Project Support**
- Providing financial and project support for the Channel strategy, including investigating options to refine channel strategies in targeted markets.
- Support for the development of eCommerce reporting and P&L reporting.
- Provide what-if analysis for the assessment of business development plans.
- Assist with the creation of Business Cases for new projects.

**About you**:

- Qualified Accountant.
- Preferably 5 years’ post qualification experience.
- Self-starter able to manage a complex agenda, with good people management skills.
- Excellent organisational skills, with a track record of process improvement.
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
- Effective communication and influencing skills, with an ability to build strong stakeholder relationships.
- Experience of working within ERP systems, preferably Oracle Netsuite or Board reporting.
- Experience of working in a multi-national listed company operating in a fast-paced environment.

**About Us**

Focusrite plc is a global music and audio group that develops and markets music technology products. Used by audio professionals and amateur musicians alike, our solutions facilitate the high-quality production of recorded and live sound. Our audio technology brands stand together, seeking to enrich lives through music by removing barriers to creativity - ‘we make music easy to make’.

The Focusrite Group trades under thirteen established and rapidly growing brands: Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, Novation, ADAM Audio, Sequential, Oberheim, Martin Audio, Optimal Audio, Ampify Music, Linea Research, Sonnox, OutBoard and TiMax. With a high-quality reputation and a rich heritage spanning decades, its brands are category leaders in the music-making industry.

Music technology is an enriching space to work in and we enjoy a Group-wide open-door culture which encourages innovation. This culture, combined with a passion for the inspirational solutions we create, has led to the group winning numerous accolades, including six Queen's Awards, the AIM Company of the Year Award 2021 and regular appearances in 'The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For’.

The Focusrite Group is dedicated to building a great place to work and as an equal opportunity employer we are committed to Diversity and Inclusion. The group mission is to cultivate an equitable culture, internally and externally, where all peopl