Commercial Business Partner

Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Business partnering to facilitate key objectives of the business and support cross functional collaboration.

• Clear provision of Investment appraisal for business opportunities with scenario planning, highlighting key risks and opportunities, ensuring undertaken with rigour to enable effective business decision making to support business growth.

• Business Partnering with the commercial functions providing insight through clear and accurate variance analysis for

the UK and International markets, highlighting trends, challenges and business risks and opportunities.

• Provide key inputs into the commercial forecasts and finalising and providing commentary for period end and board

reporting

• Clear and accurate variance analysis of commercial overhead spend including FTE reviews highlighting key

movements and drivers.

• Establishes regular weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual financial results, prepares ad-hoc financial estimates,

budgets, and analyses with clear insight and commentary for board reporting.

• Evaluation of International distributor deals

• Evaluation of pricing and distribution opportunities in the UK

• Support with M&A business integration.

• Support with financial planning and modelling as required to support business projects.

• Prepare in-depth evaluations of plans and identify new methods of analysis and presentation.

• Support on Ad hoc projects.

• BI Analytics reporting and system maintenance and improvements to meet the requirements of the business.

• Anaplan input and reporting to meet the requirements of the business.

Competencies

• Qualified accountant with 3 years+ PQE

• Experience of driving value through business partnering, and financial planning and analysis

• Ability to be located in our Leeds office

• Experience working with ERP systems, financial consolidation systems and BI/data analytics applications and implementations

• Manufacturing experience

• Experience of a similar role across several business units and in different geographies

• Pharma Industry experience, or experience of a highly regulated environment.

• Specific knowledge of the UK Pharmaceuticals’ Industry practices, pricing and governance principles would be an advantage.

Knowledge and Experience

• Qualified Accountant with 3 years+ PQE

• Degree educated

• Minimum 2 – 3 years+ PQE

• Experience of working in a similar role

• Experience of working in a Private Equity environment is extremely desirable.