Finance Business Partner

Maldon Salt is a fourth-generation, family-owned business with an impressive brand story. They have been producing their iconic sea salt flakes on the Essex coast since 1882. Today they are recognised globally as a premium product, proudly holding a Royal Warrant. Alongside this heritage, there is a clear focus on growth, sustainability and evolving how the business operates commercially.

As part of the FP&A team, the Commercial Finance Business Partner will be embedded within Sales and Marketing. You will bring high quality financial insight, robust performance and margin analysis, commercial judgement and constructive challenge to key decisions across pricing, promotional investment, demand planning and broader commercial priorities.

Success in this role means that finance is seen as a credible and valued partner to Sales and Marketing with insight and constructive challenge helping shape decisions rather than simply reviewing outcomes.

What you’ll be doing

Build credibility and trusted relationships across the business
Analysing sales, pricing, margin and mix to explain performance and drive action
Deliver clear analysis of sales, volume, price, margin and mix by customer, channel and product, explaining performance drivers
Provision of decision ready commentary for management and executive reviews to support action, margin improvement and more efficient commercial decisions
Partner with Sales and Marketing on decisions around promotions, NPD and product range
Providing insight and challenge within the demand planning (S&OP) process
Building models, dashboards and improving reporting (Excel / Power BI)What they’re looking for

Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA)
Experience in commercial finance/FP&A/business partnering
Ideally FMCG or product-led environment experience
Strong analytical capability with the confidence to influence stakeholders
Advance Excel, strong modelling capability with experience in Power BI (or similar)
Experience managing projects or workstreams, coordinating across functions and driving delivery in a practical and focused way