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Commercial Finance Business Partner - French Speaking
Job Posted: 3 hours ago
Salary: £ 60,000 - 65,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Expire in: a month
Job Description
Are you a French-speaking Commercial Finance Business Partner?
Are you keen to join a leading global manufacturer to accelerate your career?
If so, our client is keen to hear from you!
The Role:
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.
More Detail:
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.The Person:
You will be responsible for managing a UK Pricing Analyst; therefore, we are looking for you to have strong leadership and team management skills.
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 with 3 days per week in Sheffield with monthly travel to France.
Ideally you will live within a commutable distance of Sheffield (1 hour), but the client could offer flexibility for remote working if a candidate has particularly relevant commercial finance experience, within manufacturing.
More Detail:
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.
Excellent communication and presentation skills.
Proficient in financial software and tools, preferably OneStream / HFM and BI systems (Power Bi / Tableau).
Good relationship management and influencing skills.
Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively.
Make sense of complex, high quantity and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
Continually looking to challenge and facilitate a continuous improvement culture.
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 basis salary of £60-£65k 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.
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