Job ref: CFM140526
Job type: Permanent
Location: Newry
Closing date: Thursday 21 May 2026 12:00
Commercial Finance Manager
Job Overview
Reporting to the Head of Commercial finance this role sits within the commercial side of the Financial Planning and Analysis team. It will be focused upon supporting Norbrook's Sales & Marketing teams around the world to grow and develop their regional businesses through deep business partnering with senior regional leaders. The Commercial Finance Manager will support continuous improvement of our routine reporting, decision-making and growth planning as well as ensuring business targets are understood, planned towards and achieved.
Main Activities/Tasks
- Provide financial advice and decision-support to the business, particularly around rebate and pricing programs. Ensuring all such proposals are credible, accurate, fully costed and administratively feasible.
- Drive value-add analysis of business performance across each region targeting all P&L areas and effectively communicating results and recommendations to senior management on a monthly and ad-hoc business review basis.
- Pro-actively identify trends and issues in financial performance within each region and develop action plans to manage such along with regional business leadership.
- Prepare and manage weekly and monthly sales reporting.
- Assist in month end accounts and performance reporting for regions.
- Ensure appropriate financial controls are in place in the region and through monitoring to confirm these are operating effectively.
- Assist regional Sales & Marketing teams in the annual sales budget process and quarterly forecasting.
- Work with regional Sales & Marketing teams to develop an annual budget for Sales & Marketing spend, and monitor spend throughout the year.
- Work with teams on annual price increases, adhoc pricing queries and pricelist maintenance.
- Actively engage in continuous improvement of financial processes, projects and strategic initiatives as needed
- Any other duties as deemed necessary by management
Essential Criteria:- Professional Accounting qualification (ACA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent)
- Experience in a business-focused analytical role
- Experience of analysing data to generate high value, high impact management information and decision support
- High energy, self-motivated and keen to learn and develop a commercial finance career
- Strong IT skills including delivering high quality, user-friendly financial reporting
Desirable Criteria:- Big 4 accounting training or experience in large organisation.
- Experience of Business Partnering across time-zones and multiple currencies
- Experience of committing and delivering to deadlines and results
Duration: Permanent
Location: Newry
Additional Information:- Applicants should be able to provide proof that they have a right to work in the UK at the time of their application. Applicants who are unable to provide this proof will not be considered.
- We regret that applications received after the closing date and time will not be accepted.
- We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of a Visa at this time.
Benefits:- Free life assurance
- Pension salary sacrifice scheme with 5% employer contribution
- Healthcare cash plan
- 32 days annual leave (increasing with length of service)
- Wedding leave
- Enhanced Maternity / Paternity Pay
- Company Sick Pay
- Subsidised Canteen Facilities
- FREE On-site parking
- E-Car charging facilities on site
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Tech Purchase Scheme
- Free Will-Writing Service
- Employee perks/discounts scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Employee well-being initiatives
- Employee recognition scheme
- Career development opportunities
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