Commercial Finance Business Partner in Ibstock

We are recruiting a Commercial Finance Business Partner / Rebates Manager to join our head office in Ibstock, Leicestershire on a temp to perm basis.

Key Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively across a matrix organisation to address performance challenges and capitalise on opportunities.
• Use expertise, professional judgement and influencing skills to develop meaningful insights and recommendations.
• Take the lead on the budgeting/forecasting process and partner with Commercial providing guidance to ensure accurate budgeting and forecasting of volumes, price and rebates.
• Work closely with Divisional accounting teams to validate assumptions on cost and profitability.
• Work closely with Commercial to maximise price opportunities in market.
• Oversee provision and settlement of rebate accruals, payments and provision of insight data to customers.
• Proactively consider profitability improvement strategies and work with the business to reach effective solutions.
• Use analytics and trends to identify operational drivers for financial variances and influence commercial decision making.
• Support and challenge on NPD costings and projects.

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Part Qualified Accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA).
• Matrix management experience.
• Prioritise and manage workload, whilst adhering to tight deadlines.
• Flexibility and resilience under pressure.
• Proactive self-starter with a ‘can do’ attitude.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written, across all levels, with the ability to communicate financial information to non-financial colleagues.
• Collaborative working with both internal stakeholders and external customers.
• Problem solver with the ability to work alongside Commercial teams to deliver strategic goals.
• Ability to influence and challenge supportively at a senior level.
• Managing vast, often contradictory datasets from multiple systems, with precision.
• Highly IT literate with experience of ERP, Cognos and Data Warehouse tools, with advanced proficiency with Microsoft packages (e.g. PowerPoint, Excel and Word).
• Thorough understanding of business drivers and trading conditions with a proven ability to use insight to identify trends and make recommendations to Commercial teams.
• Detailed understanding of the use of rebates as a price incentive mechanism and interpretation of commercial agreements to ensure accurate calculation and provisioning.
• Sales forecasting and budgeting with ability to challenge underlying assumptions.

Desirable

• Previous experience working in a multi-product and multi-site manufacturing industry.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Digicare+ provided by Aviva.
• 10% matched pension administered by Legal & General.
• 3× life insurance.
• Share Save scheme eligibility.
• Full access to Employee Assistance programme for self and family members.
• Access to high-street retail discounts platform – discounts at Tesco, Asda, etc.
• Personal development and career progression opportunities.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We are dedicated to building belonging, empowering colleagues to be their true selves by offering a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. We invite applicants to apply even if their experience or qualifications don’t perfectly match everything in the job description. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you for employment without regard to gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, national origin, disability or age.