Commercial Finance Business Partner

We have an excellent opportunity available for you to grow your career and make a difference at Birds Eye! Joining us as a Commercial Finance Business Partner, you’ll become a trusted partner to the sales team, where you’ll influence key operational and strategic decisions. You’ll do this by providing detailed and insightful analysis, commentary, advice, and challenging where appropriate.

This is a key role within the commercial Finance team where you’ll partner with members of the sales team, aligned to one of our grocery retailers. You’ll develop an in-depth understanding of the business area, reviewing the key levers that influence P&L performance (both internal & external), provide monthly financial analysis, insight and explanation of performance, highlighting emerging issues or trends and making recommendations on corrective actions.

In brief, you will be responsible for:

• Interpret, translate, and drive performance within the business and explain operational targets into executable in-year plans.
• Partnering with Sales colleagues to drive actions to meet targets (pricing, promo ROI, sales, margin, variable costs, overheads, EBITDA, working capital, ROI etc).
• Review actual performance (pricing, promo ROI, sales, margin, variable costs, overheads, EBITDA, working capital, ROI etc) with a view to making recommendations and provoking interventions required to drive down costs, improve margins and convert P&L into cash.
• Own and drive initiatives focused on closing variances with the business.
• Leverage analyses provided by FP&A to drive business choices, by overlaying the commercial acumen and insight.
• Work with the management team to define planning assumptions, risks and investment opportunities.

To be considered for the role, you will have to demonstrate the following:

• Graduate calibre, newly qualified or finalist (ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Previous experience of working in a fast-paced finance team (ideally in a Commercial Finance team).
• Experience of managing a full P&L and variance analysis, plus KPI reporting.
• Good Financial analysis experience - you’re used to working with large volumes of data and managing large data sets.
• Good communication and written skills with the ability to engage people at all levels, with the ability to influence business and finance colleagues.
• Ability to bring multiple stakeholders and conflicting viewpoints to an objective resolution.
• Constructively challenge assumptions and thinking.

We’re on an exceptional adventure and offer a truly purpose-led career and we aim to empower each employee and promote their personal growth all the while ensuring business needs are met now and into the future.

An ambitious employer with recognized brands and growth potential. A culture where you’re part of a team, where you feel encouraged to make a difference. The potential to progress your career across different areas of the Nomad Foods Group.

This is a great time to join us! Birds Eye, owned by Nomad Foods, is the UK's/Ireland’s no.1 branded frozen food company and is comprised of the Birds Eye, Goodfella's, Aunt Bessie’s and Green Cuisine brands. Selling its first products in 1946, we have been providing high-quality frozen food for generations, and our iconic portfolio of fish, vegetable and chicken products now also includes a meat-free range, pizzas and roast joints and accompaniments. 2024 marks 100 years since our founder, Clarence Birdseye, invented the process behind frozen food as we know it today and we are immensely proud of our heritage as we continue to endeavour to serve the nation with better food, promoting the nutritional benefits and convenience of frozen food and the role it plays in helping reduce food waste.

At Nomad Foods we’re proud to represent the world we serve by hiring diverse talent. Our inclusive culture is all about what we can achieve together.