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Commercial Finance Business Partner

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The Commercial Finance Business Partner role sits within our Packaging Division Commercial Finance team and reports to the Head of Commercial Finance. This is a broad, commercially oriented role covering several aspects of our global trading for the Packaging Division. As a Commercial Finance Business Partner / Manager, you will be at the heart of our strategic planning and decision-making processes. Your role will involve providing valuable analysis and insights to support and drive the Divisional Sales & Marketing teams on competitive initiatives, business planning and new business streams. There is a particular focus on E-commerce, Point of sale and other new service offerings. This role partners with the various teams to deliver performance and decision support, manage inflationary impacts, and drive appropriate actions through the sales team.

Job Responsibility:

  • Delivering robust, timely, accurate and useful financial information and analysis
  • Work with business partners to develop dependable short- and medium- term forecasting/ budgeting, ensuring that planning processes are geared towards action, mitigating risks and maximising opportunities
  • Drive performance against budget & forecasts, challenging stakeholders on variances and driving actions to mitigate against risks
  • Elevate the standard of commercial analysis, ensuring we continually learn and seek to improve our commercially driven mindset
  • Develop a profitability view for embedded service offerings – asses the viability and value of these initiatives and offer proposals
  • Own the Pricing mechanisms process, and partner closely with the commercial operations team to understand the underlying customer contractual agreements. Work closely with the Profit Lead to understand the end-to-end impact of our pricing policies. Developing a solid understanding of the paper commodities market will be integral to an effective delivery
  • Actively participate in the growth of a highly motivated team. Showing leadership and providing guidance to team members earlier in their careers

Requirements:

  • A formal finance qualification with a degree-level education is required
  • Previous experience in Commercial Finance/ FP&A is a must
  • Proven ability to operate and navigate in a multinational, corporate environment, with profound experience of working in matrix roles
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, with proven ability to deal with stakeholders on a Senior Management level
  • Advanced skills working with MS Office tools (Excel particularly)
  • Ability to manage challenging conversations in an effective and conciliatory way
  • Ability to make decisions without having the full data view, and to find innovative ways of solving and pre-empting problems

Nice to have:

  • Experience within FMCG is highly desirable
  • Financial modelling experience preferred
  • experience with Power BI, Anaplan, Cognos reporting or similar is highly desirable
What we offer:
  • Discretionary bonus
  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
  • Car allowance
  • Pension scheme, life assurance and income protection
  • Private medical insurance
  • Salary sacrifice electric car scheme
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Employee Discounts
  • Cycle to work scheme

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Job Posted:
February 17, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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