Consumer Finance Business Partner (m/f/d) - #2126921

We are looking for a Consumer Finance Business Partner to join our dynamic team and act as the strategic co-pilot to the Global Consumer Office and Consumer Marketing teams. Reporting directly to the Finance Director Cluster DACH, this pivotal role supports proactive commercial collaboration and helps drive revenue growth and commercial margin expansion.

You will play a key role in optimizing our marketing investments, assessing return on investment, and thoughtfully reviewing business cases with a balanced, objective perspective. This role truly starts with the consumer, ensuring our financial strategies are aligned with real consumer needs and behaviours. As a valued business partner, you will foster strong, two-way relationships with marketing stakeholders, turning financial insights into practical plans that support performance.

Principle Accountabilities

• Provide financial guidance for strategic initiatives such as pricing, product launches, and market expansion.
• Evaluate business cases and deliver return assessments to inform future investments.
• Support brand financial performance reviews and identify opportunities to enhance mix and profitability.
• Measure and assess promotional effectiveness and develop best practice approaches.
• Collaborate with marketing, insights, and commercial teams to identify growth and efficiency opportunities.
• Support financial planning cycles including budgeting, forecasting, and performance updates.

Skills and Experience Required

• Professional finance qualification (e.g., CIMA, ACCA, ACA, MBA, or equivalent).
• Experience in financial planning & support and cross-functional business partnering.
• Ability to interpret consumer and market data and turn it into practical financial insights.
• Strong skills in financial modelling, scenario planning, and investment evaluation.
• Proficient in tools such as SAP, Anaplan, Power BI, Excel, and MicroStrategy.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills across diverse stakeholder groups.

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at [email protected] to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.  Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

As a matter of policy, Imperial Tobacco or its subsidiaries never requests or requires payment as part of any recruitment process.