This is a business partner role focused on supporting profitable growth driven by the country leadership team. The role reports directly to and closely supports the Commercial Finance Manager (South Zone Commercial Finance Leader). Being a right hand of the Commercial Finance Manager you'll develop fantastic relationships with your key senior stakeholders, becoming a trusted partner to the business and supporting them to drive the success of the business through the delivery of a high quality commerical finance offering. You'll drive positive change and improvements ensuring a visible and regular presence, refining processes and schedules, introducing new ways of working and ultimately maximising the "value added" by the team.
Business partnering:
- Proactive commercial business relationship management and partnership
- Build strong relationship with the members of the country leadership team and other functions (Accounting, Marketing, HR, etc)
- Support the country performance to profitable growth
- Ensure real time support and improved insights into business performance and informed decision making
- Provide decision support for commercial deals, pricing actions and investments opportunities
- Build strong business and commercial acumen through direct relationships with the customers and business units
Lead or support the development of business cases
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Analytics:
- Provide insights into the business performance for the areas under responsibility and quality commentaries for monthly reporting requirements (month-end activities, forecast and profit plan)
- Lead the business partnering support for the annual profit plans and monthly forecasting working together with the country leadership team
- Specific focus on margins and profitability analytics, P&L, BS
- Customer bonus accruals, CNs review, CoGs analysis, ad hoc requests
- Propose financial solutions to business challenges while maintaining governance and financial controls
- Continuously improve tools to get better insights into the business
- Prioritise competing demands, proactively manage expectations of the stakeholders
Apply business acumen and commercial awareness to deliver business objectives
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