Commercial Finance Business Partner Assistant Manager

I. PURPOSE
The Commercial Finance Business Partner will work in partnership with Commercial stake holders (mainly Sales and Marketing departments) across the business to support for a profitable growth strategy. He/she will also work closely with other members of the Finance team, in particular Local Finance, Costing team, FSSC, IT, IC. His/her objectives are to maintain finance systems and controls in place and to ensure the implementation of good practice in commercial proposal development throughout the organisation (Company & FGM South) and provide 'real time' support and analysis in order to assist in decision making.
1. Strategy & planning
▪ A member of financial plans/budget process
▪ Implementation of systems and process improvements in commercial finance and across relevant business units in order to maintain data accuracy & data availability
▪ Contributing to financial projects as part of the overall finance function
2. Market building and best practices
▪ Promote the work of Commercial Finance and support the implementation of good practice throughout the organisation.
3. Relationship, stakeholder and key account management
▪ Build and maintain relationships with internal clients in order to develop tools and provide support for any product orientated development
▪ Responsible for providing accurate and timely finance information, Meaningful analysis/recommendation to support for decision making
▪ Proactive propose & take action for performance improvement ideas
4. Professional expertise and development
▪ Ownership of the Pricing and Margin model. Ensuring its appropriateness across the functions/BUs.
▪ Oversee the reporting against agreed Key Performance Indicators for commercial finance demonstrating the value added to the business.
▪ Responsible for rebate & promotion review & recommendation
▪ Responsible for credit limit, credit term review, debt provision & relevance
▪ Work proactively, seek to understand the interdependencies and connections Finance work with other functions
▪ A member of month-end closing & reporting cycle
5. Risk Management and Compliance Monitoring
▪ Build the drafting of key policy documents to ensure full compliance to the organisation's rules and regulations governing transactions
▪ Deliver Value for Money and enhanced reporting approaches for use in strengthening commercial tenders and improving transparency of results.