Commercial Finance Business Partner

Description

• Ad hoc commercial analysis: Conduct ad-hoc financial modelling and scenario analysis to influence decision making, with an emphasis on providing commercial insight to the Sales team.
• Price setting: work with colleagues to set location specific pricing, factoring in variables such as scarcity, demand, local competition and ecological value
• Business partnering: Be a trusted point of contact for stakeholders across the business, communicating site performance, delivering engaging reporting and actionable insight leading to improved commercial outcomes.
• Pre-onboarding involvement: Engage early in the onboarding process of new habitat banks with the Land and Ecology teams to ensure accurate market demand and supply assumptions, positive financial viability tests and a deliverable sales cycle for the habitat bank.
• Performance optimisation: Regular monitoring and reporting of the performance of each live habitat bank. Ensure underperforming sites are acknowledged early with remedial actions to deliver maximum value.
• Cross functional alignment: Maintain transparent and consistent working approaches between Land, Ecology, Sales, and Finance, creating positive feedback loops to inform strategies for land acquisition, supply coverage, pricing, and sales.

Requirements

• Communication: An excellent communicator. Experienced at capably engaging with diverse internal and external stakeholders.
• Forecasting and budgeting: Confident in leveraging FP&A expertise to produce P&L and cash flow forecasts and provide support in budgeting cycles.
• Budgeting & forecasting: Utilise financial modelling skills and knowledge of FP&A principles to turn internal and external data sources into forecasts of future demand for biodiversity units, in addition to producing P&L and cash flow projections.
• Analytical skills: Ability to model and interpret complex market data, demand trends and financial forecasts to inform strategic decisions.
• Financially astute and Commercial acumen: Strong understanding of pricing, market positioning and revenue optimisation strategies.
• Fully qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with proven post qualification experience in commercial focused roles.
• Collaboration: Demonstrated experience working across multiple departments including Sales, Marketing, Ecology, Finance and Land teams.
• Advanced excel and financial modelling skills are essential; knowledge of PowerBI and Snowflake are desirable.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance