AG Barr
Finance Business Partner - Commercial
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Job Title: Finance Business Partner - Sales
Location: Any AG Barr Hub (Cumbernauld, Milton Keynes, Middlebrook, London)
Contract and working pattern: Permanent, 37.5 hours, Hybrid Working
Are you ready to Be Your Best Barr None?
Let's Grow!!!
We are all about Being Your Best Barr None and having a career with real Moments that Matter!
Employing around 850 people across the UK, we are proud to be a responsible business that takes care of our people, values diversity, gives something back to our communities, and works to minimize our environmental impact.
For 150 years, AG Barr has been building great brands and is home to some of the nation's favorite flavors.
At our core is IRN-BRU, launched in 1901 and still going strong today, the vibrant RUBICON fruit-based brand, Boost making every moment better with a caffeine kick, hydration hit, or tasty treat, and FUNKIN where real fruit means authentic taste.
We also have a number of exciting owned brands within our portfolio, including MOMA, which crafts quality oats into great-tasting oat drinks and porridges.
There's never been a better time to join us!
What we’re looking for…
As a Finance Business Partner looking at our Sales division, you will provide excellent finance management and partnership to business leaders and sales teams to drive business performance in an FMCG Commercial environment.
An opportunity to have a balance of support and challenge in your work, you will work closely with the sales team to maximize the return on investment in customer joint business plans, trade terms, and promotions. This will include ownership and governance of the Commercial P&L, including £100m of cost on behalf of the Commercial function.
Your responsibilities will include:
Business Partnering
- Support the Sales Director and their Sales Leadership team to execute the functional strategy by bringing an unrelenting focus on driving business performance.
- Perform ROI appraisals on new business opportunities to grow with their customer, support on the development of Annual terms and JBP, ensuring that we balance commercial growth, financial profitability, and company strategy.
- Support on individual customer pricing negotiations, making sure we maximize profitability while optimizing business opportunity to grow our distribution.
- Influence delivery of Commercial’s performance targets by providing clear, value-adding reporting, analysis, and insight to business partners with constructive challenge, coaching, and building awareness.
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Business Performance Management
- Own and enhance the end-to-end business performance management cycle (period close, forecast, R&O, action planning).
- Provide timely, accurate, and relevant standard reporting to the Commercial function.
- Drive a financial performance review process which manages performance against the annual budget/plan.
- Continuously improve the performance management cycle and associated outputs through both greater insight and improved efficiency.
Governance
- Lead rock-solid financial controls within Commercial.
- Educate on and lead processes to ensure a strong financial control environment exists around Commercial Investment.
- Educate and support the delivery of key Governance KPIs for Commercial.
- Ensure that all financial accounting and control activities for each area of responsibility within the Commercial P&L and B/S are completed accurately and timely.
Leadership
- Coaching and development of more junior members of the team.
- People leader responsibilities for up to 2 graduate or qualified accountants.
What you’ll bring...
Qualifications & Relevant Experience:
- Qualified Accountant with 3+PQE and strong financial analysis skills.
- Experience in a Commercial FMCG environment, business partnering sales teams.
Functional Skills:
- Financial accounting and reporting.
- Business planning, management reporting, and analysis.
- Accounting information systems.
- Commercial understanding.
- Business and negotiation skills.
- People management.
- Communication (verbal and written).
- Risk management and internal control.
- Tax strategy planning and compliance.
- Corporate finance and treasury management.
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What we offer…
We believe in creating a diverse and inclusive culture where your voice can be heard. Our skilled, loyal, and committed people are critical to the future success of AG Barr, which is why we are continually investing in our employees to develop their talent.
We look after our employees by offering a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes:
- Uncapped bonus linked to business performance.
- Defined contribution Pension.
- Up to 34 days holiday (depending on shift pattern).
- Flexible holiday trading.
- Flexible cash pot to spend on benefits.
- Healthcare Cash Plan.
- Flexible benefits (e.g., discounts & cashback, gym memberships, technology purchases).
- Life assurance.
- Save as you earn scheme.
- Staff sales discount.
- Free AG Barr products throughout your working day and staff sales.
- Annual salary review.
- Ongoing professional development and access to Learning and Development programs and content.
- And much more!
To find out more about what it is like to work for AG Barr, please visit our careers platform here.
We are an equal opportunities employer and happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments that may be needed for successful candidates with a disability, health, or mental health condition.
While we have highlighted our ideal requirements for this role, we are realistic that the successful candidate probably won't meet every single requirement in this advert, but we are big advocates of people growing in role. So even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we encourage you to submit an application - you may be just what we are looking for!
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Speculative CVs from agencies will not be accepted.
Latest closing date for applications is Friday, 16th October 2026.
Please note, we may close vacancies early where we receive significant numbers of applications, so apply now!
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