Senior Commercial Finance Business Partner

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Senior Commercial Finance Business Partner

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Location: Hybrid - Peterborough or Manchester

Are you a commercially minded Finance Business Partner who enjoys getting close to the numbers, challenging performance, and influencing real business outcomes?

Our client is looking for a Senior Commercial Finance Business Partner to join our Distribution Finance team. This is a high-profile role partnering with our Partnerships Director, supporting external partners, new business development, claims, ancillary products and core product trading performance.

You’ll play a key role in driving commercial performance, providing clear insight, accurate forecasting and financial challenge to help shape strategic decisions across the business.

What you’ll be doing

•    Partnering with senior stakeholders to understand trading performance, commercial drivers and key risks/opportunities.

•    Supporting delivery of budget targets across volumes, EBITDA and wider trading performance.

•    Providing robust forecasting, commercial insight and financial modelling to support decision-making.

•    Helping drive pricing optimisation, commercial initiatives and cost/value opportunities.

•    Producing consistent trading reporting and analysis across Distribution.

•    Supporting process improvement, simplification and transition to group Anaplan reporting and modelling.

•    Building strong relationships across Finance, internal trading teams and external partners.

•    Supporting M&A, due diligence and ad hoc information requests where required.  

What we’re looking for

•    Fully qualified accountant - ACCA, CIMA or ACA.

•    Strong FP&A, commercial finance or business partnering experience.

•    Advanced Excel skills, including financial modelling.

•    Confident communicator with the ability to challenge, influence and build strong relationships.

•    Strong analytical mindset with a curious, proactive approach.

•    Experience partnering with external customers or commercial teams would be highly beneficial.

•    Anaplan experience would be a strong advantage, but is not essential.  

Our client's vision is to become the UK’s No. 1 General Insurance Services Provider by delivering innovative, value-driven products and solutions to customers.

This is a brilliant opportunity to join a growing and evolving business where Finance has a genuine seat at the table. xwzovoh You’ll be part of a collaborative “One Finance” culture, with the opportunity to influence trading performance, improve processes and help shape future commercial strategy.