Job Description
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.
As you know over here at Zest we like to do things properly and always want to keep you, the candidate in the loop. Applying to this 'one of a kind' role you give Zest permission to hold your information. If you want to know more about how Zest look after your personal information please visit our privacy policy on the website (url removed)
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.
As you know over here at Zest we like to do things properly and always want to keep you, the candidate in the loop. Applying to this 'one of a kind' role you give Zest permission to hold your information. If you want to know more about how Zest look after your personal information please visit our privacy policy on the website (url removed)
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