Job Description

Permanent, full time

Location: London (Paddington), hybrid (3 days per week in office)

About the role

We are currently looking for a Commercial Finance Manager/ Business Partner to join our Divisional Commercial Finance team and support key aspects of global trading within the Packaging Division.

The role offers strong visibility across the business and will work closely with Sales, Commercial, and Operations teams to support performance, planning, and decision-making.

As a Commercial Finance Manager, you will provide high-quality analysis and insight, strengthen forecasting processes, and help drive performance through effective business partnering.

The role also involves improving how performance is tracked, reported, and understood across the division. You’ll provide robust financial analysis and deliver clear performance insights to senior stakeholders. This role offers strong exposure to senior leadership and the opportunity to shape how we manage performance and respond to market dynamics.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver robust, timely, and insightful financial analysis to support commercial decision-making

• Design and enhance forecasting processes, improving accuracy, transparency, and stakeholder accountability

• Design/Support budgeting and forecasting cycles, ensuring plans are forward-looking and action oriented. Contribute to fostering a culture of accountability

• Produce and present monthly executive review packs for senior leadership, highlighting key performance drivers, risks, and opportunities, crafting the story. Own and drive the sub-processes within this area

• Build an understanding of key revenue drivers, be able to leverage this understanding to drive improved forecasting/budgeting within the team

• Leverage analytics tools, including o9, to support forecasting, scenario modelling, and improved decision-making

• Support business cases, commercial initiatives, and broader strategic projects as required.

About You

• Proven experience in Commercial Finance or FP&A, ideally with strong exposure to business partnering with Sales or Commercial teams

• Confident stakeholder manager, with experience influencing and challenging senior leadership. You communicate clearly, concisely, and with impact

• Advanced Excel skills are essential, preferably with strong financial modelling capability. Experience with Power BI and in-house reporting tools (e.g. SDB, Navigator) is highly desirable

• Strong analytical storytelling skills – able to translate complex, fragmented data into clear, coherent insights tailored to your audience

• Comfortable navigating a decentralised, diverse, and sometimes inconsistent data landscape, and able to draw meaningful insights regardless of limitations in data quality

• Solid understanding of commercial drivers of performance, including price, volume, and mix, and their impact on profitability

• Strong attention to data integrity and accuracy, with confidence working hands-on with complex datasets

• Consistent track record of delivering high-quality outcomes for both individual and team objectives

• Agile and solutions-focused, with the ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and make decisions in “grey” areas

• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal), including the ability to manage challenging conversations in a constructive and collaborative way

• Fluent in spoken and written English; an additional European language is desirable.

Benefits

• Competitive salary

• Discretionary bonus

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

• Car allowance

• Pension scheme, life assurance and income protection

• Private medical insurance

• Salary sacrifice electric car scheme

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Employee Discounts

• Cycle to work scheme

APPLICATIONS CLOSING DATE: 7th JULY 2026

To fulfil our purpose of redefining packaging for a changing world, we aim to build a diverse, motivated, and engaged workforce. Our goal is to create a culture of inclusion where everyone is treated fairly, differences are valued, and everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed.

Our people come from diverse backgrounds, bring different perspectives, ideas and experiences to generate unique solutions focused on present and future sustainability challenges. We welcome all candidates to apply, even those not meeting all criteria.