Senior Finance Business Partner

Your new company is a Global design, development and production business with manufacturing sites in the UK, Europe, USA and South Africa.
Your new role will act as a Senior Finance Business Partner to the Technology business unit supported by a team of 4. The role will include

• Develop pricing strategy, tactics, and decisions
• Partner with Head of Sales to structure new business proposals
• Support to ensure product costings drive commercial behaviours
• Long-term planning for margin optimisation
• Contract modelling, sensitivity analysis, and scenario planning to facilitate contract negotiations and review
• Management of product mix
• Provide monthly forecast updates
• Provide weekly and monthly actual sales reports, by business unit and customer.
• Perform product and customer portfolio profit analysis
• Manage and monitor the Short Interval Control Bonus scheme.
• Provide commercial data at Gate Reviews, reporting progress and ensuring due diligence of any assumptions made.
• Responsibility for optimisation of operating working capital, including inventory.
• Driving standardisation of finance processes in collaboration with the wider finance team
• Ensuring Sales and Marketing costs are well controlled, including preparation of monthly Commercial and Marketing cost reporting.
• Flexible support across Finance Function Globally

What you\'ll need to succeed

• Experience working in a commercial environment

• Ability to apply sound commercial judgement and demonstrate confidence in making recommendations to the business

• Effective communicator across geographies and levels of a business

• A qualified accountant who has previous experience in cost accounting would be an advantage

• A good understanding of fundamental accounting principles

• Works in a collaborative way with both business and finance colleagues

• Experience in managing and developing a team

What you\'ll get in return
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