THE ROLE
We’re looking for a Finance Business Partner to join our GBS Leadership Team and play a pivotal role in driving performance, enabling strategic decision-making, and delivering impactful insights. This is more than just a numbers role — you’ll be at the heart of planning, budgeting, and forecasting, challenging the business to align its ambitions with financial goals. If you're passionate about making a difference, influencing outcomes, and being a trusted advisor in a fast-paced, collaborative setting, this is your opportunity to lead, innovate, and grow.
PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Leads the planning and budgeting cycle, providing challenge and insights, setting top-down targets, and issuing localized calendars and guidelines; manages resolution of related queries and supports corporate functions in owning and understanding their assumptions.
- Acts as the key contact for Corporate FP&A teams, handling ad hoc analysis, coordinating reporting requests from the GBS Director, and delivering internal presentations and briefing packs.
- Oversees governance of efficiency projects, ensuring impact is qualified and delivered, while assessing financial implications of emerging opportunities and risks at the GBS level.
- Manages major financial tools such as Anaplan and MicroStrategy, offering guidance and ensuring effective usage across the organization.
- Drives continuous improvement, harmonizing processes, reducing cost to serve, and supporting the development of a best-in-class GBS organization as a trusted partner to the GBS Director.
- Builds strong partnerships with markets, clusters, and central teams, identifying performance drivers, risks, and opportunities, and connecting process towers, third-party providers, and centres of competence for seamless delivery.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
- Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA, MBA) or equivalent,
- Significant proven experience in finance business partnering/FP&A.
- Prior experience in a large global company and highly matrixed organisation. Preferably in the FMCG/Tobacco industry.
- Ability to present data and findings in a clear and concise way.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Attention to detail and consistently delivering high quality work.
WHAT WE OFFER
In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.
EVERYONE BELONGS
Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at [email protected] to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.
ABOUT US
We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all. Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.
As a matter of policy, Imperial Tobacco or its subsidiaries never requests or requires payment as part of any recruitment process.
