Finance Business Partner - Sales

Asahi International Ltd ,
Woking, Surrey
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Job Type: Full-time

Overview

With sales revenues over one billion Euros, operations across five continents, four world-class production facilities, 1200 employees and 70 global brands being sold into more than 80 markets, Asahi International delivers incredible consumer value into the category and aims to change the way people think about beer. We are currently seeking an enthusiastic Finance Business Partner to join our UK Finance team based here in Woking, focused towards partnering with our UK Sales team. We're looking for someone with an innate ability to grow lasting relationships with key stakeholders, and recent proven experience of where you have put this into practice within a recent role. The role key resposibilties of the Finance Business Partner will be to support planning, budgeting and forecasting as well as the ability to work in the detail of financial reporting, whilst influencing, supporting and constructively challenging the Sales function. Further Accountabilities: Support negotiations with the strategic customers, making recommendations and setting parameters. Identify and drive revenue and margin enhancing opportunities. Drive the planning, budget and forecasting process to deliver business goals. Drive deeper understanding of the business to support key decision making through insightful financial analysis. Support & influence Sales in producing robust customer plans, covering volume, price, investment & margins, ensuring that any decisions taken are not detrimental to the wider "Enterprise" strategy. Work with Sales, Finance and Demand Planning to prepare annual budgets and quarterly forecasts, providing strong financial support throughout. Provide Insight into direct and indirect volumes, revenues and profitability to aid forecasting and planning. Actively attend channel business reviews and team meetings (offsite as needed), making relevant challenges where appropriate, in particular, leading the financial aspects of the review. Evaluate investment choices from a financial perspective to provide a long-term perspective of the impact on portfolio profitability. Ensure the budget owners understand and adopt the right methodology, tools and templates (includes training), developing specific planning, budgeting & forecasting tools and templates if required. Prepare monthly volume, NPR and customer/channel PL analysis, providing deep insightful commentary on key variances for the business that are reviewed and used to influence forward planning to ensure full year budgets and forecasts are delivered. Produce accurate and insightful reporting and commentary on month end NPR volume/price/mix analysis. In conjunction with Sales teams, monitor, maintain & develop pricing architecture for customer pricing, delivering strategies to address outliers. Including relevant pricing analysis such as Value Chain analysis, Price Pack Curves. Your Ideal Background; ACCA, CIMA or ACA finance qualification Ideally 1-4 years PQE experience Strong excel & SAP knowledge Highly numerate with strong analytical skills Strong track record of influencing non-financial decision makers Previous FMCG experience is an advantage On offer is a competitive basic salary plus generous benefits package inclusive of; Daily lunch allowance / 28 crates of beer per annum / 10-20% Annual bonus / Industry leading pension contribution / Private Healthcare / Life assurance / Dental insurance / 25 days’ holiday

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