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About the role
- The Finance Business Partner drives performance through insight, challenge, and decision support. Partnering closely with commercial and cross-functional leaders, the role shapes plans and forecasts, evaluates investments, and enables profitable growth.
Key responsibilities
- Act as a trusted finance partner to commercial and cross-functional leaders, providing insight, challenge, and recommendations to drive profitable growth.
- Own financial performance management for assigned brands/channels: deliver clear analysis of actuals, risks and opportunities, and outlook.
- Lead planning, target setting, and forecasting (including Latest Estimates) in partnership with Sales, ensuring transparent assumptions and regular cadence updates.
- Control, track, and coordinate trade investments and commercial spend with key stakeholders; provide governance and post-evaluation.
- Partner with marketing/trade marketing to evaluate A&P investments, including ROI and effectiveness tracking to improve programme outcomes.
- Build business cases and P&Ls for innovation, portfolio, and revenue management initiatives; support go/no-go decisions and benefits tracking.
- Partner with supply chain to manage product and logistics costs, monitor COGS, and identify efficiency and cost-saving opportunities.
- Deliver management reporting and variance analysis versus plan/budget; contribute to period-end close activities with relevant finance partners.
- Support ad hoc analysis and projects from regional and commercial stakeholders as required.
Qualifications and skills
Essential
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
- 5 – 7 years of experience in finance, FP&A, and/or finance business partnering, ideally within FMCG or similarly complex industries.
- Solid technical finance capability, including accounting standards, performance management, forecasting, ROI evaluation, and strategic analysis.
- Strategic and analytical thinker with the ability to challenge constructively, simplify complexity, and communicate effectively with senior stakeholders.
- Experience operating in complex, matrixed and global environments; collaborative, proactive, and comfortable working independently in fast‑paced settings.
- Exposure to auditing, controlling, statutory accounting, and commercial spend management is an advantage.
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