Are you a commercial Business partner looking to work for a fantastic business based in Warwickshire?
You will be a member of the Commercial Senior leadership team reporting to the Finance Director and be responsible for coordinating and building the bottom-up forecast and strategic process ensuring quality and process robustness with the support of the FP&A Manager
This is a key role and will support the profitability of the Business Unit.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for leading a team of 2, ensuring activities planned according to deadlines and service levels meet required standards
- Provide coaching and mentoring to direct team but also to business stakeholders
- Being a trusted business partner for the Business Unit in terms of value-added support provided
- You will play a key role in the connectivity of all the stakeholders within the business that enables the construction and proper execution of the sales strategy.
- Understand the end-to-end figures (financial and non-financial) for the Business, from the Sales & Operational Planning process through to the Operating Profit explanation, including local OPEX allocation, demand planning, pricing, discount & rebate conditions. Looking to optimize the profitability in a pertinent/critical way and proactively challenging the business by identifying performance issues, risks/opportunities and proposing solutions.
- Perform in-depth performance review & analysis versus benchmarks regarding the Commercial P&L
- Monitor performance indicators, highlighting trends and determining causes of unexpected variance and suggest appropriate counter-measures for correction
- Prepare and support the presentation of the management reporting package to the business leaders and stakeholders
- Perform complex financial analyses of business figures related to true performance achievements and priorities
- Adapt the financial reports for forecasting, trending and results analysis distributed by the FP&A team,
- Create and maintain financial models focusing on profitability and variance analysis, developing business cases, KPI’s and investment / ROI summaries
- Develop business cases and investment appraisals for commercial actions
- Take ownership of financial planning delivery
- Support FP&A team to compiling budget data, complete budget status reports and analyse budget patterns that support the consolidation of the overall budget.
- Assists in the development and maintenance of budget monitoring systems.
- Interpret and express key business drivers behind the number
This is a highly commercial role with opportunities for career development within the team. You should have proven business partnering and commercial experience and be able to manage a range of stakeholders. You must be a fully qualified accountant.
