Enterprise Commercial Business Partner

The Finance Business Partner will proactively work closely with the business, the Business Partner is responsible for providing strategic insight/input and analysis on current and future performance of all customer investment costs for EBU, operating costs and other direct costs, whilst being a constructive challenger to the business. Key Responsibilities: Analyse monthly acquisition and retention cost trends by major product type, Review of effectiveness of subsidies and promotions with business owners to include post investment analysis. Attendance at key decision forums with Consumer Business Unit and provide insight into performance drivers of costs Prepare the current year customer investment cost budgets and forecasts with product/segment managers Working cross functionally to ensure the customer investment costs included in financial plans and forecasts are aligned with the organisations distribution strategy Ensuring that there is sufficient granularity in planning and forecasting models to enable effective drill-down for further analysis Working cross functionally with other stakeholders to drive through improvements in the process and enablers of better customer investment costs analysis and planning, and where necessary help prepare business cases to support further capital investment Build strong relationships with business owners in order to gain commercial insight Support all business owners on business cases that have a direct impact on the customer investment costs Key Requirements: Business partnering / stakeholder engagement experience Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA,ACA) with 3+ years PQE Excellent PC skills with proficiency in Excel front ends Previous financial modelling experience. Planning, forecasting and budgeting experience. Working knowledge of SAP, Hyperion Enterprise, Essbase and VIP would be advantageous. Cross functional work with Financial Reporting, Commissions team, MIS to deliver accurate and timely information to the commercial business units Business recommendations with information from various sources supporting analysis Interpretation of financial reports Morgan McKinley is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Please note that any references to salary or pay rates in this advertisement and in the salary refinement section are indicative only and should only be used as a guide.