Overview
UK - Commercial Finance Business Partner
Responsibilities
- Responsible for providing collaborative financial and analytical leadership to the Sales team, to build and deliver the annual net revenue, profit and share plans for the accounts.
- Support the account/channel team to build their annual net revenue plans, and develop their annual joint business plans with their customer
- Lead the reporting and explanation of account revenue performance to the Sales team including post deal evaluation, customer & category performance, and lessons for future activity
- Highlight future performance concerns and opportunities and take a lead role in planning commercial activities required to remediate any gaps to target
- Continuously challenge and optimise trade spend for the specified accounts.
- Lead the delivery of net revenue plans with responsibility for reviewing the forecasting of promotions and new products.
- Steward the process for ensuring all prospective account promotional investments are evaluated and approved appropriately
- Oversee period close process and provide understanding and insight into performance, including PY accruals.
Qualifications
- University degree in Economics or Finance;
- 7-9 years experience in Finance; preferably in Commerical Finance
- Excellent analytical/numerical skills including strong attention to detail and Excel skills
- Strong presentation and communication skills
- Good commercial judgement and intellectually strong
- Excellent knowledge of core business processes
- Strong prioritisation and time management skills
