Job Title
Senior Business Partner Finance - Procurement
Job Description
Minimum required Education:
Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Accounting, or equivalent.
Minimum required Experience:
Minimum 8 years of experience with a Bachelor's Degree, or minimum 6 years of experience with a Master's Degree, in areas such as Finance Business Partnering, FP&A, Procurement Finance, Supply Chain Finance, Commercial Finance, Corporate Finance, or equivalent.
Minimum required Certification:
N/A
Preferred Education:
Master's Degree in Finance, Business Administration, Accounting, Economics, or equivalent.
Preferred Experience:
Experience supporting Procurement, Supply Chain, Operations, Manufacturing, or commercial functions in a complex, multi-category organization. Experience with spend analytics, sourcing business cases, supplier economics, cost savings validation, and risk analysis is preferred.
Preferred Certification:
CPA, CMA, CIMA, CFA, or equivalent financial qualification.
Your role:
• Serves as the senior Finance Business Partner for Procurement, providing financial leadership and decision support across Procurement, as business needs evolve.
• Partners closely with Procurement, Supply Chain, Operations, and senior business leaders to shape procurement strategies, evaluate commercial decisions, and ensure financial considerations are embedded in procurement plans and key decisions.
• Leads the financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance-management processes for procurement spend.
• Develops and maintains robust financial models, scenario analyses, and business cases to evaluate procurement strategies, supplier negotiations, make-versus-buy decisions, contract proposals, investment opportunities, and other procurement initiatives.
• Validates, tracks, and reports procurement savings, productivity initiatives, and inflation mitigation measures, ensuring methodologies are transparent, consistently applied, and aligned with Finance standards and guidelines.
• Monitors and analyzes procurement-related financial performance at a detailed level, identifying cost trends, supplier and category risks, price variances, working-capital opportunities, and emerging risks or opportunities.
• Provides financial insights working with Procurement and business leaders to develop mitigation strategies and assess financial exposure.
• Supports commercial decision-making through cost analysis, total-cost-of-ownership assessments, payment-term analysis, and financial evaluation of supplier proposals.
• Leads the preparation and delivery of clear, decision-oriented financial presentations and reporting for senior management, translating complex procurement and financial information into actionable insights.
• Drives continuous improvement and automation of procurement-finance processes, reporting, tools, and systems to improve data quality, efficiency, transparency, and alignment between Procurement and Finance.
• Ensures procurement-related financial practices comply with internal controls, corporate governance requirements, financial policies, and applicable regulatory standards.
• Leads or contributes to cross-functional strategic initiatives requiring procurement and financial expertise, ensuring financial goals and value-delivery commitments are incorporated into broader business plans.
• Provides functional leadership, coaching, and subject-matter expertise to Procurement stakeholders and junior finance colleagues.
You're the right fit if you:
• Have deep financial acumen and can interpret complex information, challenge assumptions, and translate analysis into clear conclusions, recommendations, and business outcomes.
• Bring strategic thought leadership and can connect financial, operational, and market inputs to identify implications for Procurement and the broader business.
• Apply strong independent judgment and problem-solving skills, operating effectively with ambiguous, incomplete, or…