Commercial Finance Business Partner
Job title: Commercial Finance Business Partner
Reports to: Senior Commercial Finance Business Partner
Location: Ornua Nantwich
Salary: Generous salary available depending on experience
Hours: hours per week, Monday to Friday
Benefits: 33 days annual leave, hybrid working, company pension scheme, discounted cheese and butter, onsite physio, bike and tech scheme, confidential employee assist programme and many more
Ornua (meaning “new gold”) is Ireland’s largest exporter of Irish dairy products, proudly bringing the unique taste of Irish dairy to the world for over 55 years.
Are you a proactive, experienced and analytical Finance Business Partner looking for the challenge of taking a mission driven organisation to its next level of success?
Ornua is actively seeking a tenacious, energetic and collaborative Commercial Finance Business Partner to join our finance department as we continue our growth trajectory.
As our Commercial Finance Business Partner you will play a key role in; Influencing senior commercial stakeholders to drive significant business performance improvement. You will achieve this through providing brilliant financial insight on a timely basis and proactively partnering stakeholders. You will be responsible for providing robust financial controls relating to the accounting of sales and margin.
Supporting both our Nantwich site (UK) and Avila site (Spain).
Why Ornua?
1. Ornua operates as a commercial organisation from 10 business units worldwide, including 12 production facilities located in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Africa.
2. The commercial organisation is responsible for the marketing and sales of Ornua’s consumer brands including Ireland’s most successful food export: Kerrygold.
3. It also manages the procurement of Irish and non-Irish dairy products, the sale of dairy ingredients to food manufacturing and foodservice customers globally, and the implementation of de-risking and trading strategies to manage market volatility.
4. Our co-operative ethos lies at the heart of how we do business as a purpose and values-led organisation, creating value for Irish dairy farming families.
5. Our Values lie at the core of everything we do. Our five values encourage us to Seek and Embrace New Ideas, Make It Happen, Be Our True Selves, Show You Care, and Achieve Great Things Together.
6. Dynamic Working policy in place which facilitates flexible hours and hybrid working
7. We invest in our people and foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
8. Career Progression including Global Mobility opportunities.
9. Comprehensive Benefits with regional specific offerings.
Why This Role Is Valuable:
As our Commercial Finance Business Partner you will be responsible for leading on;
Supporting Customer Pricing:
10. Develop a deep understanding of the business and become a trusted business partner that can challenge pricing decisions to optimise our margins
11. Provide timely, accurate and standardised information to facilitate discussions around customer tenders
Supporting NPD process:
12. Support development of a stage-gate process aligned to the commercial strategies of the business
13. Partner the NPD by providing effective commercial analysis and controls to support decision making
Sales reporting:
14. Present sales information in a meaningful way with business commentaries that provide real insight
15. Highlight exceptions and be tenacious to make sure improvement actions are followed through
Procurement analysis:
16. Setting raw material standards
17. Analyse purchasing decision and assess long or short positions
18. Financial accounting (margin and purchasing):
19. Manage an efficient month end process with robust balance sheet reconciliations
20. Have a continuous improvement mindset to develop the processes in a controlled and consistent way
Forecasting and budgeting:
21. Manage the process for producing accurate volume and margin forecasts on a monthly and annual basis
22. Robustly challenge assumptions and clearly highlight business risks and mitigating actions
Project work:
23. Develop and present business cases on an ad-hoc basis
What You Bring To The Role:
24. CIMA/ACCA qualified or qualified by experience
25. Broad and relevant experience in a commercial finance role
26. Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and ability to work with large data dets
27. Experience of working with an ERP system
28. Good level of Spanish would be desirable but not essential
29. Ability to travel to our Spanish site
Our interview process is designed to be thorough yet supportive. This process includes a first stage via Teams to allow us to get to know you better and to understand your skills and experiences and, if successful, a second stage face-to-face interview that will build upon the first stage and give you the opportunity to get a feel for Ornua and the environment in which you will be working.
Ornua has ambitious growth plans and we’re building a team to help enable and accelerate that growth. We are looking for people who share our values, are curious, forward-looking, take ownership and work together to build a future for themselves and Ornua.
Would you like to make an impact?
To learn more, please visit Ornua at
Ornua values diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds. We also strongly encourage women and other underrepresented groups in the manufacturing industry to apply. Your unique perspectives and experiences are highly valued and will be instrumental in driving our company’s continued success. Join us in shaping a more innovative, inclusive, and sustainable future.
Ornua is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace. We will make every effort to provide for any reasonable accessibility needs you may have during your employment with us. If you require accommodations at any stage of the recruitment process or in your role, please let us know — we’re here to support you.