We are partnering with a leading global food ingredients manufacturer to recruit a Commercial Finance Business Partner. This is a key role within the UK&I commercial team, offering significant exposure to senior commercial stakeholders and the opportunity to directly influence business performance and strategy.
Reporting to the Head of FP&A and Business Partnering, the successful candidate will lead commercial finance business partnering – providing insight, challenge, and support to drive profitable growth.
The Role
This position sits at the heart of the commercial function, acting as a trusted advisor to Sales and Commercial leadership. You will play a critical role in shaping decision‑making through robust financial insight, effective planning, and strong governance.
Key responsibilities include:
- Acting as the finance lead to the Commercial team, influencing and challenging decisions to drive profitable growth
- Leading the commercial finance input into forecasting, budgeting, and the monthly performance cycle
- Delivering clear, actionable insight on revenue, margin, pricing, and portfolio performance
- Owning pricing governance, including the development and maintenance of pricing models and frameworks
- Supporting customer negotiations through scenario planning and financial analysis
- Developing customer and product profitability analysis, identifying risks and opportunities to improve margin
- Partnering with R&D and Commercial teams on new product development (NPD) and innovation business cases
- Ensuring robust governance, tracking, and delivery of NPD initiatives
- Driving continuous improvement across commercial finance processes, tools, and reporting
We are looking for a commercially minded finance professional with strong business partnering experience and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
Key requirements:
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- Proven experience in commercial finance and business partnering roles, ideally from a food manufacturing background
- Strong analytical and data management skills, with advanced Excel capability
- Experience with pricing, costing models, and profitability analysis
- Familiarity with BI systems and tools
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate data into clear commercial insight
- Proactive, solutions‑oriented mindset with a track record of driving improvements
- Experience working with product development or R&D functions is advantageous
This is an excellent opportunity to join a well‑established, globally recognised organisation in a highly visible and impactful role. You will have the chance to shape commercial performance, influence key decisions, and contribute to ongoing growth and innovation.
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