Job Description

The position holder will be adept at business partnering senior stakeholders, bringing value adding guardrails for investment and providing strategic insight. The role requires collective leadership, an ability to deliver constructive challenge and to present financial concepts and plans with absolute clarity.

The role holder will report to the Commercial Finance Director, whilst working very closely with commercial, marketing and finance teams. The role is well suited to those with significant commercial finance business partnering experience who are adept at support strategic decision making, innovation and business growth. You will be a fully qualified finance professional via ACA, ACCA or CIMA.

Responsibilities shall include but not be limited to;

• Supporting to deliver outstanding commercial finance management, focusing on forward looking strategies to deliver a sustainable business plan, understanding and managing innovation pipelines, hurdles and project delivery
• Define and embed Financial support ways of working
• Maintain Financial and Commercial leadership over ad-hoc strategic projects
• Deliver robust, insightful and clear innovation modelling and proposals, ensuring outputs are appropriate for Exec review and onward presentation
• Review and recommend business/investment cases
• Leverage commercial understanding of brand/customer/channel profitability and external competitor influences
• Provide strategic challenge and valuable insight
• Design best in class toolkits and techniques for efficient and effective analysis,
• Support up skilling of Commercial partners, leading the Commercial Finance agenda

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Experience operating in Commercial Finance within a multinational FMCG organizations
• Track record of supporting key strategic decision making driving growth and innovation
• Proven ability to build robust relationships, ideally with prior experience partnering with sales and marketing individuals.
• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
• Highly conscientious with good attention to detail, coupled with a broad perspective
• SAP system and PowerBI knowledge is helpful
• The desire to challenge the status quo