Senior Commercial Finance Business Partner, DE74

About the Role We have a fantastic opportunity for a commercially focused Senior Finance Business Partner to join our Commercial Finance Team. Reporting to the Business Unit Controller, you will provide entrepreneurial financial management and decision support services in collaboration with Account Managers for typically larger Contract Manufacturing customers. The role includes but is not limited to: * Analyse, understand and influence the commercial approaches for customers to optimise profitability and allow accurate estimating of likely costs. * Support negotiations with customers, including on price, service, contractual terms; working on capital control (either in partnership with the Commercial Team or taking the lead where necessary) * Be the Finance lead for annual price / filling fee reiews; devising and executing the appropriate strategy in alignment with the Account Manager. * Be involved in the preparation of management accounts, balance sheets reconciliations and credit control for contract customers. * Support the company planning and forecasting process as required relating to Contract Manufacturing About You You will be an experienced, qualified accountant with significant business partnering experience with a commercial focus. Ideally you will have experience of working within FMCG; experience of partnering with a commercial team would be beneficial. Salary & Benefits The salary for this role is competitive and dependent on experience. We also offer an annual bonus incentive and a good company pension scheme, personal private healthcare, 3x basic salary life assurance plus 25 days holiday in addition to bank holidays (with the option to purchase additional holidays). Working hours are Monday - Thursday 8.30 - 5.00, Fridays 8.30 - 4.00. Who are we? Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We're thirsty for more and growing fast which is why we invested £1.25 billion in expanding our global manufacturing footprint making us the largest independent bottler of soft drinks and fruit juices in the world. We currently produce 12 billion litres from 59 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we?re only just getting started? Our UK Business unit has six manufacturing plants providing a great place to work for 1800 employees producing private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers including Tesco, ASDA, Morrison?s, Sainsburys, ALDI and Lidl. We also manufacture for branded customers such as Innocent, Ocean Spray, Weetabix, Del Monte and Um Bongo. Whether it?s packed in Cartons, PET, Aseptic PET or Cans, we ensure that our products are not only manufactured to the highest quality standards but they get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high profile customers