Finance Business PartnerTelford / Market Drayton (Hybrid)£neg + bonusSeymour John is proud to be partnering with a true market leader. My client a FMCG international household name seek to recruit a Finance Business Partner as a result of internal promotion. In this role you will act as the conduit between finance and the commercial teams. We’re looking for experienced individual to act as a key commercial business partner supporting the Sales Financial Controller in business partnering the Commercial team. You will provide day-to-day and strategic financial and commercial decision support ensuring robustness financial data and commercial forecasts. Business Partner the Sales Teams providing financial and commercial decision support and insight to drive the business forward in these areas.Management of Customers P&L’s.Evaluation and development of individual customer business plans.Input into the Sales business review process.Input into the monthly promotional management process.Dealing with day-to-day queries from your key contacts.Ad-hoc reporting and analysis.Build strong relationships across the commercial teams to ensure involvement in decision up-front.Attend Sales Business review and pre-meetings providing support and analysis to feed into the presentation.Review, analyse and challenge risk and opportunities and commercial forecast.Analyse monthly financial forecast to provide insight into key changes by customer and brand, explaining variances vs previous forecast, budget and prior year result.Review with the commercial team of YTD and YTG full year sales forecast and associated CM, ensuring plans are sufficient to meet the annual targets.Analysis of performance vs forecast & prior year.Preparation of required journal postings.Month End Day 5/6/7 preparation and reporting.Provide commentary on key drivers of performance for customer base.On an annualised basis, (July-September), lead the commercial teams for Business Unt area through the commercial budgeting process ensuring that robust plans are developed which meet the issued top-down targets.Key skills & experience for the Finance Business Partner: - Recognised Accounting qualification (CIMA / ACCA / ACA) preferred but open minded to QBE’s.Ability to manage a wide-ranging stakeholder base across the businessAble to work to tight deadlines with agility and proficiencyTime ManagementWillingness to drive change and process improvementsAdvice and support of strategic changes affecting sales and wider businessAbility to provide decision support & challenge to the commercial teamsRelationship building and communication skillsFinancial and commercial modelling skillsStructured approach to managing priorities across multiple projects over different time horizonsAbility to operate at all levels within the commercial teamsStakeholder ManagementManagement of multi projectsCommercially mindedIn return you will receive a competitive salary plus up to 10% bonus, PMI Single cover, Life Assurance 4x salary, good pension, 25 days annual leave and a true hybrid working culture.For further information please contact Lee Walker at Seymour John Ltd.