Are you a qualified and experienced Commercial Accountant or Finance Business Partner with a background in FMCG or wholesale? Ready to take your career to the next level in a fast-paced, growth-focused environment?
Refresco is seeking a commercially minded finance professional to join our dynamic team. In this pivotal role, you’ll work closely with the Commercial Director and partner with Sales and Marketing teams to deliver strategic financial insights. Your core focus will be on product costings, helping shape pricing decisions, profitability analysis, and commercial strategy.
Finance Business Partner - Commercial
Refresco UK - Kegworth, Derbyshire (just off J24 of the M1)
Monday – Thursday 8:30am – 5pm, and Friday 8:30am – 4pm
What’s in it for you?
* Hybrid working – work 2 days from home
* Access to a 24/7 virtual GP for you and your family
* 12.5% Annual Bonus
* Private personal healthcare plan
* 6% pension
* Life assurance (X3 annual salary)
* An enhanced holiday allowance of 28 days plus bank holidays
* Purchase extra holiday (up to 3 days per year)
* Access to our brand new employee benefits platform offering discounts, cashback rewards, and access to more optional benefits
* Access to Grocery Aid – for free financial, personal, health and wellbeing support
What you'll be doing:
* Serve as the key Finance Business Partner for the Sales and Marketing teams, working with stakeholders like the Commercial Director, Head of Marketing, and Pricing and Promotions Manager.
* Provide decision support on costing and pricing proposals, considering brand strategy, competitor positioning, profitability, and long-term objectives.
* Deliver reporting and analysis on brand performance and profitability, including recommendations for improvements where relevant.
* Ensure promotional, discount, and marketing costs are accurately allocated for clear brand performance reporting.
* Coordinate and support financial planning processes for branded products, including the 3-Year Plan, Budget, and Forecast.
* Collaborate with stakeholders to propose annual price increases, considering raw material costs and the competitive landscape.
* Work with sales and marketing teams to identify brand opportunities, creating actionable plans for volume and profit growth.
What we’re looking for:
We’re seeking a results-driven finance professional who brings:
* Professional qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) in commercial or management accounting
* Proven commercial finance experience, ideally within a fast-paced FMCG or wholesale environment
* Strong costing expertise, with the ability to analyse and influence pricing and margin decisions
* Industry insight, with hands-on experience in FMCG, wholesale, or similar product-led sectors
* Confident stakeholder engagement, with a track record of business partnering
We want someone who will lead and role model to the Refresco core values - agile, responsible, excellent, passionate and entrepreneurial - see here for more detail:
https://www.refresco.co.uk/uk/about/our-values
About Refresco:
Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global, National and Emerging brands, and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia. Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass. Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market demand
Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and has more than 13,500 employees. www.refresco.com.
Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we’re only just getting started.
We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers.
Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards. Our products get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high-profile customers.
Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.