Auckland City Fringe
Commercial Business Partner
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Listed
March 9, 2026
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Job Title
Commercial Business Partner
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Location
Auckland City Fringe
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Job Type
Permanent
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Classification
Accounting & Finance
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Salary Range
$130,000 - $145,000 Yearly
- Newmarket based + flexible working + hybrid role
- 7 month FTC + March/early April start
- Suit FMCG expert + hands on role + decision making
The role requires an urgent start (March, early April) and will be a 7 month FTC, with potential to stay on, while this is never a certainty. You will have flexible working, ownership over your role and decision making, and expected to make change where commercially viable.
The employer
You will be joining an exporting giant, proud of their reputation for excellent, and commitment to sustainability and the strength of their brands. As we continue to evolve, we're seeking a strong commercial finance professional to partner with our New Zealand Sales & Marketing teams. This is a high‑impact role with visibility across product, brand, category and market profitability. You will bring financial rigor, commercial insight, and influence to drive better decisions and stronger performance.
Key to the success of your role will be your ability to deliver accurate and timely budgets, forecasts and insights that improve sales, margins and brand profitability, while building trust as a true commercial partner who drives stronger financial acumen across Sales and Marketing.
As Finance Business Partner you will:
- Provide commercial business partnering support to the supply team, marketing team, and domestic branded support, delivering value‑add analysis to help meet volume and net sales targets
- Manage advertising & promotional spend, and lead portfolio optimisation reviews, assessing spend effectiveness, recommending product deletions or reallocations
- Own the month reviews / mid‑month calls for product supply, lead month‑end review meetings, identify risks and opportunities, and push for actionable insights
- Support trade spend & marketing spend control, ensure correct accruals, allocations, recognition, and optimum return
- Lead budgeting & forecasting efforts, from driver challenge through to brand profitability, cost allocations, multi‑year modelling, and scenario analysis
- Build, refine and automate commercial tools, processes and workflows, identify efficiencies in forecasting, reporting, risk/opportunity management
- Produce reports, dashboards and KPI analysis, provide commentary on drivers, variances, trends, and guide decision‑making across the business
- Champion adoption of Business Intelligence, automation and continuous improvement in reporting and analysis
- A tertiary qualification in accounting / finance (CA, CPA or equivalent preferred)
- Significant experience in a commercial finance or business partnering role in FMCG, retail, consumer goods or CPG environment
- Strong analytical ability, modelling skills, and the aptitude to simplify complexity
- Excellent communication and influencing skills — able to present to senior stakeholders and business partners
- Proven experience in budgeting, forecasting, trade spend / promotion modelling, variance analysis
- Comfort in ambiguity, and a proactive mindset to drive improvements and challenge assumptions
- Experience with BI / dashboard tools (Power BI, Tableau, etc) and advanced Excel skills
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