About this role
Manufacturing | Strategic & Commercial Finance | International Group
Remote | Offices near London | Monthly Office Visit
£65,000 – £75,000 + Benefits
A brilliant opportunity for a commercially minded Finance Business Partner who enjoys using data to influence decisions, challenge the business and help shape strategy.
You’ll be joining a large international manufacturing business, partnering closely with commercial and regional leadership across multiple markets.
This is much more than a reporting role – they want someone who can understand what the numbers are telling them, manipulate large amounts of data and turn that into clear, commercially useful insight.
The role has a strong strategic focus, looking at sales, profitability, margins and wider business drivers to identify opportunities, highlight risks and support better decision-making. You’ll also take ownership across forecasting, planning, management reporting and scenario modelling, working with stakeholders across the UK and wider international business.
It’s a predominantly remote role, with the expectation that you’ll travel into the offices near London around once a month.
The Role
- Act as a strategic Finance Business Partner to senior commercial and regional stakeholders
- Provide forward-looking analysis across sales, profitability, margins and key business drivers
- Work with commercial teams to identify growth opportunities and support strategic decisions
- Own quarterly forecasting, annual planning and longer-term financial planning
- Analyse performance against forecast and prior year, identifying the key drivers behind variances
- Manipulate and analyse large amounts of financial and commercial data to produce meaningful insight
- Build financial models and scenario analysis to assess opportunities and changing market conditions
- Support regional management reporting and translate complex information into clear recommendations
- Partner with finance and commercial teams across multiple international markets
- Lead financial reviews and confidently challenge stakeholders where appropriate
- Use Power BI and other reporting tools to improve the quality and efficiency of financial information
- Identify opportunities to improve forecasting, reporting and analytical processes
The Candidate
- Qualified CIMA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent
- Strong Finance Business Partnering, FP&A or Commercial Finance experience
- Commercially minded with the ability to understand the wider business rather than simply report the numbers
- Strong strategic thinking and comfortable providing recommendations to senior stakeholders
- Excellent data analysis skills with the ability to manage and manipulate large, complex datasets
- Advanced Excel skills with strong financial modelling capability
- Strong forecasting, budgeting and financial planning experience
- Able to turn financial and commercial data into clear, actionable insight
- Confident partnering with and influencing senior stakeholders
- Experience working across multiple markets or within an international business would be beneficial
- Power BI, OneStream or similar reporting and planning systems experience would be advantageous
Salary & Benefits
- £65,000 – £75,000
- Predominantly remote working
- Offices near London
- Typically one office visit per month
- International exposure
- Strong company benefits
This would suit someone who enjoys the commercial and strategic side of finance and genuinely likes getting into data. If you’re someone who can take a large amount of information, work out what actually matters and use it to influence commercial decisions, there’s a lot to like about this opportunity.