**** FINANCE BUSINESS PARTNER - RECOGNISED FMCG BRAND ****
Due to continued growth and the launch of an exciting range of new products this leading global FMCG with its HQ in Berkshire is looking to recruit a commercial finance senior to lead FP&A and partnering activities for the sales and marketing teams. With the support of the Commercial FD, you would provide a holistic partnering service to sales, marketing leadership, and provide high level management information to support retail direction and strategy.
This role would ideally suit someone qualified (ACCA, CIMA, ACA) with demonstrable experience of adding value in a FMCG style business, and can offer a salary of up to £70k P/A plus bonus, benefits and work from home options.
Duties:
Financial Analysis and Reporting
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Maintenance and streamlining of key data workbooks:
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Historic and outlook tracking of sales from revenue through to contribution. This is a key report to enable analysis of unit volumes, average selling price (ASP), and profitability by product. Key opportunities or concerns will be highlighted to management and the board.
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Centralised standard costing workbook. This is updated from data provided by local financial controllers and is critical to facilitate analysis and reporting of margin performance at product level. Opportunity will exist to migrate this in-system within 18 months.
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Individual P&Ls for focus customers. This is a key report for commercial and finance teams to support and develop key customer relationships. This includes ecoms profitability reporting, which will involve working closely with the Head of E-Commerce.
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Support management with timely financial and commercial trade analysis:
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Co-ordination, production and delivery of monthly trading reports and commercial insight for senior management.
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Preparation and analysis of historic and prospective financial data to communicate key information on trade volume and contribution by brand, product, customer and channel to both finance and commercial teams. Key consideration should be on trends, highlights and variances to budget / forecast / prior year.
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Support production of monthly board pack by drafting concise and informative revenue slides accompanied with insightful commentary.
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Support M&A activities with trade and commercial analysis of prospective targets - including sales performance, impact assessment of contractual terms, market share review, and group profitability impact.
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Provide financial and commercial advice to management, driving financial performance through commercially sound analysis at revenue and margin level which enables management to take decisions
Reporting Improvement
- Implement processes to ensure the latest trade forecasts (revenue through to trade contribution) are captured each month from around the business.
- Develop and streamline processes to ensure more effective delivery of product portfolio and trade performance information.
- Support development of system reports for trade activity and profitability reporting by collation of data and QA testing.
Business Partnering
- Business partner with the commercial and operations teams to ensure clear comprehension of target performance (budget / forecast / KPI) for trade activities, as well as the prompt highlighting of focus / risk / improvement areas to improve financial performance.
- Preparation of relevant, timely management information to equip the commercial team with the necessary understanding required to make business decisions - including analysis of margin drivers, lower margin customers / products, etc, to provide greater insight into trading performance.
- Be a key player in the preparation of the annual budget, working alongside the Commercial Directors across the business to produce consolidated product sales budgets (from revenue through to contribution).
- Commercial project support e.g. evaluation of new product development proposals or plans to internalize / outsource production.
- Maintaining an analysis of key customer contracts to include key terms, products and highlight any specific financial considerations to the core finance team, e.g. discounts, rebates, royalty accruals.
Benefits:
- A highly competitive base salary of between £50,000 and £75,000 P/A based on experience
- A performance related bonus of up to 15%
- 5% pension contribution
- 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holiday
- Income protection
- Death in service
- Private medical cover
- A fun, positive and friendly work environment where you are given the opportunity to bring ideas to the table.
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