Commercial Finance Business Partner - Sales

Red Bull UK is currently recruiting for a Commercial Financial Business Partner - Sales to be based in London, UK.

As the Finance Business Partner for the Grocery Sales Channel, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering our three-year commercial strategy while maintaining ownership of the channel and customer P&Ls. Partnering closely with the Business Unit Director, you will act as a trusted commercial advisor, providing insight, challenge, and strategic support to drive sustainable growth, maximize profitability, and strengthen long-term business performance. This is a highly visible role, offering the opportunity to influence key commercial decisions and help steer the future direction of the channel.

Success in this role will be built on your ability to create strong cross-functional partnerships and drive a culture of commercial excellence. You will lead the planning and forecasting agenda, including monthly forecasts, Risks & Ops reviews, and annual business planning cycles. Working collaboratively across the business, you will provide robust control and challenge around volume, revenue, pricing, and commercial investment decisions, ensuring plans are delivered effectively and profitably. You will also support the successful execution of strategic commercial initiatives, drive excellence in financial and technical delivery, and enhance visibility, accountability, and performance through clear financial insight and strong stakeholder engagement. Through your collaborative approach, you will empower teams, connect functions, and help create an environment where informed decision-making and commercial success can thrive.

GENERAL DAY-TO-DAY

• Is a catalyst in our commercial excellence strategy and a driving force in the commercial controlling team who accelerates the connectivity and performance of the department.
• Guarantees full compliance with the Group Controlling Guidelines and Audit Requirements.
• Designs the system setup, to perfectly mirror the responsibilities in the organization.
• Timely distribution of financial information (plan and actual) to every budget holder by sending out reports, by allowing system access and by presenting the information in regular meetings.
• Builds a solid relationship with budget holders based on mutual respect and trust.
• Is driven through a service mentality: sharing insights, supporting budget spends and appraisals, highlighting R+Os, providing financial simulations and business cases proposals.

MONTH END CLOSING

• Coordinates the monthly sales investment accrual process + channel reviews.
• Leading the consolidation of month end closing management reporting packs, collating commentary, and providing analysis on financial performance and R+Os to Channel Managers + Sales Directors.
• Ensures master data quality of systems, including customer, product, internal order hierarchies.

REPORTING AND ANALYSIS

• Generate, improve, harmonise, and standardise the weekly/monthly management information reports, analysis, and insight with a desire to drive improvements ongoing both locally and with HQ.
• Develop and enhance reports, aggregated or detailed level, comparing YTD, PY vs CY vs RE vs YTG.
• Critically assess investment evaluations and performance, by sku, pack type, product range, period.

PLANNING AND FORECASTING

• Leads the monthly Channel Review Meeting to ensure a robust channel financial outlook.
• Supports a true bottom-up planning process by finding a balance of long term vision and inclusive challenge with close analytical support to contribute high forecasting accuracy of business plan.
• Coordinates the Business Plan/Revised Estimate data collection and data entry with Channel team.
• Aggregates/consolidates the individual plans to a total channel plan.
• Prepares year to go monthly reforecast including identifying and tracking sales R+Os.

BUSINESS PARTNERING

• Be the Co-pilot and sparring partner for the Business Unit Director and their direct reports.
• Use facts, figures and analysis to identify and prioritise performance improvement plans.
• Lead on strategic projects such as long-term pricing, promotional investment optimisation, Group Controlling Guideline audits, robotics efficiencies, reporting developments.
• Build and solidify Local + HQ finance relationships and mindsets.
• Prepares scenarios and simulations with the input from the commercial teams and models the impact. 

• Strong and established experience in controlling FP&A, finance business partner role in consumer goods.
• Sales finance experience including Price and Mix variance analysis is advantageous.
• Qualified finance professional (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent, QBE).
• Fluent written and spoken English
• Good experience of, and extremely comfortable in, an incredibly fast paced environment, with endless proactivity and initiative to find answers, problem solve, and work as a team.
• A structured, well-organized individual, with excellent attention to detail and influencing skills, able to manage own workload, tenacious, self-motivated, and self-directed, comfortable under pressure in a fast-paced team environment.
• Highly analytical, inquisitive self-starter with a desire to always improve the status quo, the ability to quickly identify and assess risks and impacts, and able to define alternatives.
• Numerate, process orientated, personable, outgoing character, and able to build strong relationships with their stakeholders while providing constructive input with a demonstrable service/work ethic.

At Red Bull, we exist to give people wiiings. To achieve that, we recognise the value that comes from having a highly diverse workforce that has the freedom and responsibility to realise their ideas and seize opportunities. We make recruiting decisions based on experience, skills, potential and talent: everyone is welcome here.