Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner | Market Drayton (Hybrid) | 13-month FTC - £neg + bonus

Seymour John is proud to be partnering with a true market leader. My client a FMCG international household name seek to recruit a Finance Business Partner to cover maternity leave for a period of 13 months.

In this role you will act as the conduit between finance and the commercial teams. We’re looking for experienced individual to act as a key commercial business partner supporting the Sales Financial Controller in business partnering the Commercial team. You will provide day-to-day and strategic financial and commercial decision support ensuring robustness financial data and commercial forecasts.

• Business Partner the Sales Teams providing financial and commercial decision support and insight to drive the business forward in these areas.
• Management of Customers P&L’s.
• Evaluation and development of individual customer business plans.
• Input into the Sales business review process.
• Input into the monthly promotional management process.
• Dealing with day-to-day queries from your key contacts.
• Ad-hoc reporting and analysis.
• Build strong relationships across the commercial teams to ensure involvement in decision up-front.
• Attend Sales Business review and pre-meetings providing support and analysis to feed into the presentation.
• Review, analyse and challenge risk and opportunities and commercial forecast.
• Analyse monthly financial forecast to provide insight into key changes by customer and brand, explaining variances vs previous forecast, budget and prior year result.
• Review with the commercial team of YTD and YTG full year sales forecast and associated CM, ensuring plans are sufficient to meet the annual targets.
• Analysis of performance vs forecast & prior year.
• Preparation of required journal postings.
• Month End Day 5/6/7 preparation and reporting.
• Provide commentary on key drivers of performance for customer base.
• On an annualised basis, (July-September), lead the commercial teams for Business Unt area through the commercial budgeting process ensuring that robust plans are developed which meet the issued top-down targets.

Key skills & experience for the Finance Business Partner:

• Recognised Accounting qualification (CIMA / ACCA / ACA) preferred but open minded to QBE’s.
• Ability to manage a wide-ranging stakeholder base across the business
• Able to work to tight deadlines with agility and proficiency
• Time Management
• Willingness to drive change and process improvements
• Advice and support of strategic changes affecting sales and wider business
• Ability to provide decision support & challenge to the commercial teams
• Relationship building and communication skills
• Financial and commercial modelling skills
• Structured approach to managing priorities across multiple projects over different time horizons
• Ability to operate at all levels within the commercial teams
• Stakeholder Management
• Management of multi projects
• Commercially minded

In return you will receive a competitive salary plus up to 10% bonus, PMI Single cover, Life Assurance 4x salary, good pension, 25 days annual leave and a true hybrid working culture.

For further information please contact Lee Walker at Seymour John Ltd.