Commercial Finance Business Partner

We are seeking a talented Commercial Finance Business Partner to join our European HQ FP&A Team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in FP&A and commercial business partnering in a multinational matrix organisation.

Your role:

As Senior FP&A Analyst – Commercial Lead / Business Partner, you will be the FP&A lead responsible for driving forward the commercial activities of the European organisation.  Serving as business partner to the commercial teams and functional leaders, providing actionable financial insight, reporting, analysis, influence and supporting key business & strategic decisions through relevant and timely business information and analytics.  

Reporting to the Finance Director – Commercial, Operations and FP&A, this key role will focus on the improving the quality and depth of data, analytics and insight.  You will provide detailed analysis of key drivers driving and/or impacting performance, alongside improvement and standardisation of financial processes/procedures.  Ultimately, driving best practice and increasing consistency and transparency across the region.

This is a hybrid role based at our European Head Quarters in Solihull.  In addition to a competitive salary, pension and 25 days holiday, we offer a comprehensive range of employee benefits including relocation packages, salary sacrifices and employee discounts.   

What your impact will be:

• Lead consolidated European commercial financial management reporting - financially validating, reporting, forecasting & insight of commercial performance
• Development of the Financial Commercial Excellence metrics and reporting - ensuring timely provision of information (KPI’s), insight, data analytics, value add commentary, and challenge to the commercial organisation
• Provision of key commercial related KPI’s and analysis for Monthly Operating Report, Board Packs, Forecast / Budget and other reporting
• Drive consistency and transparency of financial reporting methodology, ensuring predictability, accuracy and reliability of information and enable internal benchmarking
• Harmonize financial commercial reporting of accurate volume, price, mix, sales initiatives, new product sales and market performance, reporting actual versus budget, forecasts and prior year.
• Develop consistent European product / customer profitability analysis & reporting inc cross border & wall to wall profitability. Work with EU Pricing and EU BI Team to drive continuous improvement in transparency, visibility, and data driven decision making. 
• Lead governance over commercial related activities & processes including price, discounts, sales rebate, commission / bonus, aged debt and bad debt provisions.
• Able to clearly communicate with data, a cohesive explanation around business drivers behind financial data and potential implications on future results to facilitate decision making
• Ability to translate financial and non-financial commercial metrics into actionable operating plans to support key stakeholders in driving the business forward
• Lead European commercial forecast & budget processes – ensure accurate, realistic, achievable, supported by sound financial analysis, challenge, monitor, drive improvements inc necessary counter measures to achieve the business targets, develop a predictable forecast process.

What you'll need to succeed:

• At least 5+ year’s experience in a multi-site multi country finance / accounting role
• Experience of working for a blue-chip company (preferably US Multinational)
• Experience working in a global matrix managed organization
• Strong commercial and/or manufacturing sector experience
• Good relationship management and influencing skills, inc strong communication skills at all levels and across all disciplines
• Experience in systems and processes development with a proven track record of introducing new processes effectively into an organisation
• Ability to challenge the status quo and facilitate a continuous improvement culture underpinned by excellent service provision.
• Advanced IT skills and experience and building robust financial models (PBI, Excel, Access, Data Warehouse)
• Experience of data extraction, manipulation, transformation & interpretation, comfortable working with big data sets and translating results into meaningful analysis and actionable insight
• Knowledge of BI Tools / Data Warehouse – Tableau / Snowflake etc 

Good reason to join:

JELD-WEN is a leading global designer, manufacturer and distributor of high-performance interior and exterior doors, windows, and related building products serving the new construction and repair and remodeling sectors. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., the company operates facilities in 16 countries in North America and Europe and employs approximately 18,000 people. Since 1960, the JELD-WEN team has been committed to making quality products that create safe and sustainable environments for customers, associates and local communities. The JELD-WEN family of brands includes JELD-WEN® worldwide; LaCantina™ and VPI™ in North America; and Swedoor® and DANA® in Europe.

In 2022, Newsweek named JELD-WEN as one of America’s Most Trustworthy Companies.

JELD-WEN is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.

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