Head of Finance Business Partner

Our client is seeking a Head of Finance Business Partner – B2B to support the financial performance and growth of its B2B business, covering Poultry Primary Processing and Value-Added Meat Products.

This is a senior finance leadership role responsible for end-to-end P&L performance, combining commercial finance, operational finance, FP&A, cost management, and business partnering. The successful candidate will work closely with the B2B business leadership and commercial, manufacturing, supply chain, and corporate finance teams to drive profitability, strengthen financial discipline, and support sustainable growth across the value chain.

The role offers the opportunity to lead and develop multiple finance teams while playing a key role in strengthening finance processes, controls, and business partnering..

• Own and drive end-to-end P&L performance across the B2B business, covering revenue, gross profit, costs, and profitability.
• Drive revenue and gross profit performance through product, channel, and customer profitability analysis.
• Partner with Commercial teams on pricing, channel optimization, and top-line performance, including monitoring price realization, discount leakage, and mix impact.
• Lead annual budgeting and rolling forecasts across revenue, gross profit, costs, and working capital.
• Monitor manufacturing and production economics, including live bird costs, commodity volatility, slaughter and carcass yields, conversion costs, capacity utilization, and byproduct recovery.
• Drive cost optimization and profitability improvement initiatives across the value chain.
• Manage working capital and cash conversion, including inventory, AR/DSO, distribution costs, and customer profitability.
• Evaluate and develop financial business cases for CAPEX investments, including NPV, IRR, and payback analysis.
• Partner with Corporate Finance and relevant functions to strengthen business processes, financial controls, and approval workflows across plants and distribution.
• Govern transfer pricing across the value chain and ensure alignment of the integrated B2B P&L.
• Lead end-to-end finance process improvements across order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, plan-to-produce, and record-to-report.
• Partner with IT and Business Systems to strengthen SAP and financial reporting capabilities.
• Identify and proactively manage key financial and operational risks, including commodity volatility, customer credit, inventory write-offs, and other business risks.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the B2B Finance Business Partnering teams while driving stronger collaboration across Commercial, Supply Chain, Procurement, Operations, and Corporate Finance.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• 12+ years of finance experience, with at least 6 years in FBP or FP&A leadership roles across manufacturing, distribution, and commercial finance.
• Strong experience in end-to-end P&L management, commercial finance, FP&A, and business partnering.
• Proven understanding of manufacturing finance and cost accounting, ideally within food, poultry, agribusiness, FMCG, or other commodity/perishable-based industries.
• Strong understanding of product and customer profitability, pricing, gross margin, COGS, working capital, and cost optimization.
• Experience working with distribution and/or Food Services / HORECA economics is preferred.
• Proven ability to lead and develop multiple finance teams and work effectively across a complex organization.
• Strong experience in budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, and management reporting.
• Familiarity with SAP, particularly CO-PC, Material Ledger, and COPA, as well as BI/reporting tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills, with the ability to translate complex financial and operational matters into actionable business insights.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, operationally complex environment and partnering closely with senior commercial and operational stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related discipline. A Master's/MBA or professional qualification such as CA/CPA/CFA would be advantageous.

If you are interested or would like to recommend someone for this role, feel free to apply directly or reach out to me at [email protected].