Junior Finance Business Partner

Junior Finance Business Partner

Theale

£27,000 to £30,000 Excellent Benefits

Hybrid - ASAP start

Role

A leading UK supplier within the catering and hospitality sector, the business specialises in providing high-quality, innovative products through a range of established brands. With a strong reputation for quality and service, they work with a wide range of prestigious catering, hospitality and leisure establishments across the country.

As the exclusive recruitment partner, Cast UK has been instructed to recruit a Junior Business Partner for the company's head office in Theale.

Reporting to the Finance Business Partner, you will work closely with teams across the business to provide systems support, maintain data integrity and deliver analysis that helps drive profitability. This role would suit a graduate or someone studying towards AAT who is looking to develop their career within a Commercial Finance team.

Key Skills and Responsibilities

• Support financial and commercial assessments for tenders, renewals, and retentions, including innovative solutions, pricing structure reviews, and written responses for all commercial elements of bids.
• Enhance internal data and reporting to improve accuracy, efficiency, and presentation of customer-specific reports.
• Provide commercial insights and performance analysis, identifying trends, investigating margin exceptions (high, low, or negative), and exploring margin improvement opportunities.
• Act as a point of contact for contractual reviews, ensuring contract changes are implemented, documented, and communicated while supporting Sales and Purchasing Managers on assigned contracts. Assist the sales team with new contract mobilisations.
• Ensure accurate reporting of customer contract commercial aspects, including appropriate provisions and Customer Rebate management.
• Assist in planning, organizing, and data entry for the annual Supplier Repricing exercise, ensuring timely implementation of all updates.
• Support the planning, calculation, and data entry for the bi-annual Customer Repricing exercise, ensuring all pricing changes are implemented promptly.
• Develop current systems, optimize their use, and create best-practice processes tailored to system workflows.
• Maintain Customer and Supplier pricing files and minimize manual data entry, streamlining processes across the team.
• Prepare monthly Customer KPI reports in line with customer requirements.

Skills and Experience

• Intermediate Excel knowledge
• Strong commercial awareness - numerical and analytical skills
• Strong system knowledge

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Cast UK is a leading executive consultancy, providing national recruitment solutions to both clients and candidates. Specialising in, HR, Procurement, Buying, Supply Chain, and Logistics, each member of our specialist team has a professional background specific to their recruiting sector. With this unique insight and knowledge, our consultants are able to place individuals from trainee through to main board. For more information on Cast UK or to discuss how we can find talent for your business then please visit www.castuk.com

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