Finance Business Partner

The Role

FTC 18 Months

This role is responsible for driving business performance by providing insights, decision support, and ad‑hoc analysis. It supports and constructively challenges the organization to ensure that business strategies remain aligned with financial objectives. They should own the local planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes, ensuring that all required data and assumptions are robust and clearly defined.

The role fosters strong two‑way strategic relationships and translates financial information for Sales and Trade Marketing teams, ensuring full business understanding to maximize performance and achieve strategic goals. It also actively seeks opportunities for process automation and simplification.

Principle Accountabilities

• Leading consumer focused business decision making
• Governing the Integrated Business Planning process (financial part)
• Delivering financial insights to inform commercial decisions
• Leading business case evaluation, driving milestone, KPI definition and calculated expectations
• Acting as a strategic partner to market leaders in market discussions
• Identifying risks and opportunities, helping to fully quantified
• As a truly Connected Leader this Business Partner displays all elements of Imperial behaviours to a very high standard

Financial Performance, Analysis & Planning:

• Leads IBP process from financial for the market providing relevant challenge and insights.
• Leads long term strategic planning, working in collaboration with the Finance Manager.
• Drives scenario planning and modelling to maximise share, revenue, profit and cash deliveries.
• Provides reports with greater insight and continuous improvement mindset.
• Ensures reporting data is of high quality and appropriately structured & governed. Drives for standardised reporting and automation/ AI wherever possible, with minimal reliance on excel spreadsheets or single person.
• Facilitates the budgeting and forecasting process, supporting other functions to own their respective assumptions and enabling them to understand the impact of those assumptions on the local plans.
• Works with other functions to perform detailed operational planning.
• Reviews the financial performance reporting for the Market and provides strategic commentary overlays.
• Oversees, and often delivers, the internal presentations and briefing packs for the local Leadership Team.
• Accountable for meeting ad hoc requirements, coordinating ad hoc reporting and analysis requests as required by the Cluster/ Region / Group leadership.

Critical Decisions

• Accountable for decisions related to strategic planning, business plan and latest estimates/ forecasts, e.g. building assumptions and setting the local calendar.
• Facilitate decisions on target setting for strategic planning, business plan and latest estimates/ forecasts, including locally allocating targets
• Facilitate decisions on business performance through insights to standard reporting and monthly/ quarterly business reviews.
• Facilitate decisions on financial and investment appraisals for markets through ad-hoc analysis and modelling

Skills and Experience Required

Essential

• 2-4 years of proven experience in finance business partnering / FP&A delivery, gained through smaller / fewer complex organisations and / or with limited categories.
• Prior experience in a large global company and highly matrixed organisation. Preferably in the FMCG/Tobacco industry.
• Ability to present data and findings concisely
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Attention to detail and consistently delivering high quality work.

Desirable

• Experience of stakeholder management at a senior level.
• Ability to facilitate conversations and drive towards decisions. Ability to influence.
• Ability to work and thrive in highly ambiguous
• environments with ever-changing priorities.
• Ability to adapt to different cultures, intercultural sensitivity.

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.  Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

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