Finance Business Partner

About Le Creuset: At Le Creuset, every dish begins with a story - and every story begins with people. Since 1925, we’ve brought generations together around the table, transforming everyday meals into cherished memories. Our legacy is built on colour, craft, and a deep passion for innovation - shaped as much by our iconic products as by the people who bring them to life. We’re not just creating cookware; we’re creating moments that last a lifetime. If you’re inspired by heritage, driven by creativity, and ready to shape the future of the kitchen, we’d love to welcome you into our story.

The Recipe for Success: Role Summary We're looking for someone who can bring together the perfect blend of data, insight and commercial understanding to help shape our business recipe for success. Partnering closely with teams across the business, you'll turn complex information into clear, actionable insights that support confident decision-making and help accelerate the delivery of our long-term strategy. This is a hands-on role in a fast-paced environment, ideal for someone who enjoys getting into the finer ingredients of performance, communicating with clarity, and building strong relationships across the business. You'll help stir up meaningful analysis, uncover the key drivers behind results, and ensure teams have the right information on the table to focus their efforts where they matter most.

Key Responsibilities: As a key ingredient in our Finance team, you'll work closely with colleagues across the business to create value for both our customers and the organisation. Combining commercial insight with strong partnerships, you'll help ensure we have the right recipe for sustainable success.

• Serving as a trusted adviser to designated business channels, providing clear, high-quality financial insight to support confident, evidence-based decision-making.
• Working alongside teams across the business to taste-test assumptions, challenge thinking, and ensure plans align with our commercial objectives.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to identify opportunities, manage risks, and deliver the best possible business performance.
• Acting as the Voice of the Customer within Finance, helping to maintain excellent customer satisfaction levels and ensuring customer needs remain at the heart of decision-making.
• Helping colleagues build their financial understanding, equipping them with the knowledge and confidence to take ownership of financial performance within their areas.
• Building strong relationships across functions, creating an environment where collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement are always on the menu.

Whats on your Seasonal Menu:

• Preparing and refining rolling forecasts, budgets and financial controls to ensure robust governance and effective business planning.
• Developing compelling business cases that maximise opportunities and deliver strong returns on investment and capital employed.
• Supporting the Head of Business Partnering in delivering our strategic goals, helping to shape an optimal cost-to-serve model and a best-in-class Finance function.
• Playing a key role in shaping and delivering the UK & IE financial strategy, including supporting transformation initiatives that drive long-term value.
• Continuously improving the recipe behind price change and promotional governance processes, ensuring they remain efficient, effective and commercially focused.
• Contributing to strategic projects and cross-functional initiatives that support growth, performance and operational excellence across the business.

The Perfect Blend: What We're Looking For Success in this role comes from being able to work seamlessly across multiple business areas, combining strong stakeholder relationships with a commercially astute and constructively challenging mindset. You'll be comfortable influencing at all levels, bringing together the right ingredients of insight, collaboration and expertise to help drive better business outcomes. We're looking for someone with the right blend of technical expertise, commercial awareness, and relationship-building skills to help keep our business recipe on track.

Your Flavour Profile (Behaviours & Traits):

• A professionally qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA), bringing a strong foundation of financial expertise to the table.
• Proven experience as a Finance Business Partner, successfully partnering with senior stakeholders and budget holders to influence decision-making and drive performance.
• A strong understanding of management accounts, key cost drivers, and the ingredients that contribute to margin and profitability.
• Experience preparing budgets, forecasts and variance analysis, with the ability to translate financial performance into clear, easy-to-digest insights.
• Confidence in serving up meaningful reporting and transforming data into practical recommendations that create value for the business.
• Strong analytical skills, with a talent for spotting emerging trends, identifying potential risks, and uncovering opportunities before they reach boiling point.
• Experience working within a business that uses Invoice Discounting (ID) or similar funding facilities would be an added ingredient, but isn't essential.
• Advanced Excel skills and confidence using ERP and accounting systems to ensure the numbers are always accurate and well prepared.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the confidence to ask the right questions, challenge constructively, and bring others along on the journey.
• Highly organised and able to juggle multiple priorities, keeping every plate spinning in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.

Skills & Qualifications - Essential Ingredients:

• A strong understanding of business strategy, with the ability to translate financial information into clear, meaningful insights that colleagues across the business can easily digest.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the credibility, integrity and professionalism to influence, challenge and persuade senior leaders when it matters most.
• Confidence presenting complex financial topics and leading discussions within Senior Leadership Team, Board and Executive-level meetings, serving as a trusted subject matter expert at the table.
• Proven Finance Business Partnering experience within a complex organisation, with a track record of creating value through collaboration and commercial insight.
• Expertise across management reporting, forecasting, budgeting, financial controls, revenue recognition and strategic planning, ensuring every financial ingredient is measured, prepared and served to a high standard.
• A proactive approach, coupled with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and a keen eye for detail when reviewing the finer ingredients of business performance.
• Demonstrated success building strong relationships across matrix and multi-regional teams, bringing people together to deliver the best results.
• Strong people development and leadership skills, with the ability to nurture talent, share knowledge and help others grow their capability.
• The enthusiasm, energy and resilience to perform in a fast-paced environment, alongside the drive and commitment to keep delivering exceptional results.

Other Requirements: You’ll be office-based in Andover four days per week, working closely with the wider teams to keep everything running like a well-organised kitchen.

Why Join Our Table? At Le Creuset, you will find your seat at our table, which is as colourful as our cookware and rich in history. Our table is grounded in our values: Passion, Integrity, Excellence, Innovation and Teamwork. Every talent will add flavour. Every idea brings colour. And every day is a chance to create something that lasts. With the passion you bring, you become part of a timeless legacy, one that brings people together around food, stories, and meaningful shared moments.

Diversity & Inclusion Statement: We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, race, ethnic or national origin. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to reach their full potential.