Commercial Finance Manager
- Recruiter
- Investigo Limited
- Location
- England, Hertfordshire
- Salary
- £350.00 - £400.00 per day
- Posted
- 24 Oct 2016
- Closes
- 31 Oct 2016
- Ref
- BBBH49690
- Contact
- Jim Smith
- Job Title
- Finance Business Partner
- Category
- Consumer products / FMCG
- Experience Levels
- Qualified Accountant
- Contract Type
- Contract
- Hours
- Full Time
Investigo are urgently seeking a Highly Commercial Finance Business Partner for a well-established FMCG business in Hertfordshire. This is a true commercial role where you will have a direct impact on a number of business cases and business partner highly with the Marketing and Innovation teams. Due to the complexity of this role my client is seeking candidates with significant previous experience of commercially working with Sales, Marketing or Innovations teams ideally gained within an FMCG environment.
The role is primarily responsible for generating the financial appraisals including the financial strategy for innovation for the company as a whole. This works in tandem with the company's global brands.
Key deliverables-
- Financial strategy - integrating both category strategy plans & innovation strategy plans.
- Ensure the innovation gate process and documentation is appropriate for financial requirements and is consistent across the business units.
- Reporting on performance, generating insight and recommendations for action
- Must have experience of business cases:
- End to end input on business cases
- Challenging and supporting business case decisions
- Multi-market (international) experience required
- Must have very strong commercial business partnering experience
- An individual who has experience of the 'value chain' would be hugely advantageous
Successful applicants will come from a marketing finance / Innovation background or potentially sales finance. If called to interview you will be prepared to give examples of where you have linked performance to the market, understand household penetration rates, distribution achieved etc.
You will also be a Qualified Accountant with significant commercial exposure who is immediately available.