Remote Commercial Finance Business Partner - French Speaking in Liverpool

Are you a French-speaking Commercial Finance Business Partner or are you looking for your next step and business partnering forms part of your current role, but you would like to do more? You will be driving the strategic financial decision-making and support commercial growth initiatives across the business. You will act as a key business partner to the commercial teams in the UK and France, providing financial insight, analysis, and guidance to optimise revenue, profitability, and operational efficiency.

The role is responsible for leading commercial forecasting, supporting effective pricing decisions and controls, commercial performance reporting, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives and market dynamics. Championing data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement in financial processes to support sustainable business growth.

Embed robust commercial insights into the S&OP process to support informed decision-making and drive improved business performance. Lead and continuously enhance the commercial budgeting and forecasting process, ensuring key variances (e.g., volume, price, mix, inflation) are clearly understood and providing value-added analysis to support performance improvement. Deliver strategic financial guidance and insights to Commercial, Product Management, and R&D teams to support growth and optimise commercial performance.

Foster strong partnerships with Commercial and Country FP&A teams, championing a culture of financial ownership, accountability, and transparency. Produce and validate high-quality financial reporting and analytics to support variance analysis and deliver actionable insights across the organisation. Ensure timely and accurate completion of core financial responsibilities, including period close, SOX compliance, statutory reporting, and year-end audit processes.

English and French language skills are essential, and you must be flexible to travel between the UK, Sheffield office and office in France. Our client offers hybrid-working, ideally 2-3 days per week in Sheffield with monthly travel to France. There could be some flexibility on the role being more remote-based in the UK or in France.

You could be a commercial finance business partner currently or could be a finance manager, management accountant or analyst, looking for your next step. Qualified or in final stages of a recognised Finance qualification (e.g., CIMA, ACCA) or equivalent. Experience in a business partnering role, preferably within a manufacturing or similar industry. Fluent in English and French language skills to a professional level. Strong analytical skills, comfortable with big data sets and attention to detail. Proficient in financial software and tools, preferably OneStream / HFM and BI systems (Power Bi / Tableau). Happy to work on a hybrid basis onsite in the UK (Sheffield) and France (Eauze). Flexible to travel, with monthly/bi-monthly travel between the UK and France required.

Our client is offering a basic salary of £60-£70k PA + 10% bonus, 25 days holiday with the opportunity to purchase up to 5 days, 7.5% pension, private BUPA health plan/ medicash health plan electric car and cycle to work salary sacrifice initiatives.

If you are a fluent French and English speaker and have the commercial finance experience our client is looking for, apply now or contact Dominic Quirke at Advancing People directly, in complete confidence. Advancing People Ltd is an Equal Opportunities Employer and acts as both an Employment Business and Employment Agency.