Finance Business Partner

Join as a Finance Business Partner where you play a key role in enabling commercial success across the business by delivering high-quality financial insight and operational support. By working closely with the commercial team, the FBP helps translate financial data into meaningful actions - supporting the delivery of the seeding programme and broader growth initiatives. The role also acts as a trusted advisor to the Head of Commercial Finance, ensuring financial clarity and accountability across all commercial activities, and is also responsible for driving the planning and budgeting process, managing cost performance, and evaluating financial outcomes to inform strategic decisions.Your duties will include:

Planning & Budgeting

• Lead the financial input into the annual business planning cycle, ensuring alignment with operational and commercial goals.
• Provide cost modelling and financial advice to support strategic planning across production, logistics, and sales functions.
• Collaborate with the commercial team to build robust, data-driven budgets.
• Present budget proposals to the Head of Commercial Finance, translating financials into KPIs and measurable objectives relevant to the sector.

Cost Management

• Conduct regular reviews with stakeholders across our operations, supply chain, and commercial teams to monitor and manage costs.
• Maintain monthly management accounts, ensuring accuracy and visibility of spend across key areas such as raw materials, distribution, and overheads.
• Challenge assumptions and forecasts constructively to ensure financial discipline and value for money.

Performance Evaluation

· Analyze financial performance, identifying key variances and their underlying drivers (e.g. input costs, yield changes, market pricing).

· Prepare clear variance analysis reports to support strategic reviews and decision-making by the Head of Commercial Finance.

· Monitor trends and provide insights to improve margin and operational efficiency.Internal Reporting

· Maintain a continuous view of performance against budget across all of the commercial function.

· Partner with commercial leadership to provide regular updates on budget tracking, highlighting risks and opportunities.

· Support the development of reporting tools and dashboards tailored to the needs of a fast-paced, product-driven environmentStakeholder Engagement

· Present financial information clearly to senior stakeholders.

· Supporting cross-functional collaboration, especially between finance, sales, and operations.