Job Description

The Finance Business Partner - Supply Chain will be responsible for driving improvements across the supply chain operations, increase efficiency and reduce costs within the division.

• Partner with the Senior Management Team
• Deliver effective and appropriate KPIs across the Supply Chain functions including full P&L
• Support the delivery of Commercial by providing financial performance insights and recommendations to Commercial leadership team to ensure strategy is driving value to the business
• Ensures all Commercial investments are optimised to drive maximum value from all resources, making sure impact to P&L, Balance sheet and Cashflow are considered and understood
• Drive cost controllership, bringing deep understanding of cost drivers to monitor & optimise Commercial spend effectiveness
• Support the sign-off process to ensure proposals are financially sound and offer maximum value to business
• Supports Commercial projects by adding financial insight, using established financial evaluation tools (e.g. investment evaluation), business case review and post-implementation analysis and utilising specialist support where appropriate
• Extract and develop key trends and observations from the Finance teams including benchmarking gaps, commercial performance and spend effectiveness
• Set expectations and provides constructive challenge of the insights, commentary and recommendations provided by the Commercial teams
• Accountable for financial capability improvement within the Commercial functions; identifies and implements opportunities to drive advancement on the capability

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

It is essential the candidate is a qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA) Strong communication skills - able to push back, add value and support stakeholders with ongoing projects High degree of commercial acumen Strong Excel knowledge Able to work within tight deadlines Results orientated, with a desire to succeed