Finance Business Partner

Job Description

Investigo are delighted to be exclusively partnering with a large Tamworth based organisation who are looking to recruit a Finance Business Partner, on a permanent basis.Reporting to the FP&A Director, this newly created Finance Business Partner role will be a highly visible role within the organisation, and the incumbent can expect to be involved in discussions with the SMT and Exec. The Finance Business Partner will be responsible for developing reporting and analysis across current and future product portfolios. This will include identifying and agreeing on Key Performance Indicators with the product team. Responsibilities will include:

• Develop decision support tools: Volume / Margin / Mix dashboards to support the delivery of profitable growth
• Provide key management information and analysis to make informed business decisions and to help drive business performance improvement (including monthly financial performance reviews).
• Ownership of measures of the P&Ls for each product category and brand including the creation of (i) sales and margin reporting for both value and volumes; and (ii) sales and margin forecasts in accordance with Masco reporting deadlines.
• Drive improvement through use of key performance indicators
• Proactively drive value by identifying and communicating financial or operational issues and supporting the product team with the identification of solutions.
• Develop and monitor the implementation of corrective action plans.
• Lead the Existing and New Product annual budget process, ensuring that centrally agreed plans and timetables are communicated and required templates are completed in line with the timetable.
• Production of monthly reporting on new and existing products for inclusion in ELT Business Performance presentation.
• Develop and maintain New Product launch investment case model with different scenarios and updating assumed inputs with actuals as the NPD programme matures for inclusion in Stage Gate Meetings
• Develop reporting of actuals vs AOP monthly for inclusion within the ELT Business Performance presentation, identifying drivers of gaps and providing commentary
• Complete Post Investment Reviews at agreed intervals for reporting back to Stage Gate identifying and understanding variances to the original investment case and understanding and reporting on the drivers of these variances.
• Validate and report regularly on the Strategic NPD Roadmap, ensuring that the 5 year plan for product development and product portfolio is integrated within the Long Range Plan.
• Foster influential and collaborative relationships, knowledge sharing, agree priorities and shaping of strategies that will improve sales and margin performance
• Contribute to discussions in meetings at all levels regardless of seniority of attendees
• Support business leads in understanding the impact of their proposed actions
• Challenge and track responses to trading/cost actions alongside business leads
• Ensures pace and business accountability through challenge of use of tools.
• Monthly review of actuals vs budget identifying gaps and agreeing commentary with the Design team for inclusion in monthly ELT reporting
• Completion of monthly reforecast with outputs provided to the Group Financial Controller
• Ensure compliance with all Masco and Company financial control standards in accounting for costs (particularly display units).
• Assist the FP&A Director with ad hoc commercial projects as requested
• Support external audit requests, where applicable
• Develop a clear understanding of inflationary pressures and its impact on their channels to ensure these are tracked appropriately
• Maintenance of up to date and accurate product data classifications for inclusion in the Finance data table.

The successful Candidate is likely to be Professionally Qualified with a minimum of 2 years experience within commercial finance. They will be comfortable with a 60/40 mix of commercial business partnering versus hands-on production of numbers/analysis.The visible nature of this role will mean that any Candidate will need to possess exceptional communication skills and a confidence to liaise with senior stakeholders. This role will require Advanced level Excel skills, and any experience of dashboarding withQliksense/Qlikview or SQL/Power BI would be advantageous.Our Client is offering a Salary of £55,000 - £65,000 + Bonus + Pension + Benefits and they offer Hybrid working with a requirement of 2 days per week in the Tamworth office.