An International FMCG business is currently experiencing exponential growth and is looking to expand their Commercial Finance team.My client is currently recruiting for a Commercial Finance Business Partner role reporting into the Head of Commercial Finance. The role and business offers excellent hybrid working options and excellent progression opportunities for the right individual.Responsibilities:* Finance Business Partner with the account managers for the major retailers* Forecasting, understanding financial performance and promotions profitability* Be responsible for new product sign offs and investment appraisals.* Collaborate closely with the Sales team to determine financial models specifically related to cost price negotiations* Brand, product category and product reporting - sales (volume and mix), cost, margin.* Analyse and report on brand profitability.* Sales reporting and analysis for senior level stakeholders.* Analysis of KPI reports including channel, customer, product profitability providing investigation and commentary on variance to plan for a range of senior Directors.* Month end commentary and analysis of sales and margin comparisons to budget and prior year, liaison with Commercial team to understand/challenge and draw insight on performance, risks and opportunities* Robust commercial, trend and business analysis across customer, categories and products* Interpretation of large stack quantitative and qualitative data, provide meaningful insight to drive action in conjunction with the Commercial Director and commercial teams* Ensure complex information and data is turned into clear and digestible information* Support decision making across the commercial teams with insightful and accurate recommendations* Monitor, analyse and evaluate promotional and marketing spend vs sales growth and net margin across channels and customers* Responsible for setting up, maintaining, and auditing contract pricing and bespoke promotions file* Responsible for updating and maintaining customer terms and overriders tracker by account* Taking a lead role in the budgeting and forecasting process working with commercial and finance teams* Work closely with Finance team to ensure accurate allocation of deductions, understanding drivers of distribution,* Building partnerships and maintaining strong relationships with all senior managers and their team* Support the planning and budgeting process around production, distribution, costing and purchasing.* Highlight future performance concerns and opportunities and take a lead role in planning commercial activities required to remediate any gaps to target.Requirements:* Finance professional with significant post qualified experience; FMCG experience preferred* CIMA /ACA/ACCA Qualified preferred* Strong verbal and written communication skills to influence at all levelsBy applying you will be registered as a candidate with Marc Daniels Specialist Recruitment Limited. Our Privacy Policy is available on our website and explains how we will use your personal data.

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