Careers & Candidates has been engaged by our Client, to source Candidates for the role of Commercial Business Partner.
Our Client is a mid sixed corporate within the biotech sector. With well established global leading technologies and medical treatments and highly profitable, the business is about to expand into international markets through acquisitions.
The position reports into the Group CFO and is a key commercial member of the finance team and broader business. It has a solid operational and commercial flavor and will only suit a person who enjoys understanding business drivers, working with operations and looking for opportunities to grow the business and improve profitability.
The role also has a key focus on systems and improving how the finance systems run and integrate with other reporting and management systems, to improve data validity and efficiencies in reporting, as well as, working with the business to understand business information needs and develop the reporting needed. Again, doing this part of the role well, will require working across operations, IT and finance, and will only suit a person who values the prospect.
The role will also take you to modelling out possible scenarios of changes to proposed legislation on costs of the business,
as well as, benchmarking business cost and revenue management against competitors.
Beyond these key areas, there is the prospect to develop the role into a broader strategic analysis and where your passions may take you. The business has a culture of molding and even creating roles, as business needs evolve through employees spotting business opportunities and needs and following their passions. Just one of the reasons why this business has sustained high levels of success and growth.
You will have an Accounting degree and have experience in commercial analysis and business partnering, as well as, a level of interest in IT systems and reporting. For example, this role will need to develop BI reporting (at a finance user level, not as an IT programmer) and capitalise on integrating AI. Experience with Power BI or TM1 (or similar) and creating and amending reports would be ideal.
You like to understand business drivers and you value getting out and working with stakeholders across the business.
If your worst nightmare is being stuck by yourself, reconciling the G/L, then this job is for you. Please do apply!