Business Partner, FP&A, Sweeteners

Business Partner, FP&A, Sweeteners | Primient About Primient

Primient is a century old company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are a leading producer of food and industrial ingredients made from plant-based, renewable sources. We deliver value through deep technical, commercial, and operational excellence that is backed by our long-standing corn wet milling heritage. Wherever we are in the process, from field to customer, our priorities are focused on ensuring we produce the safest, highest quality products through practices that uphold both our responsibility and commitments to the challenge and drive for excellence, our people and our planet.

We’re investing in our plants and people to unlock our potential in the industrial and food sectors. Guided by our values of Safety, Excellence, Integrity, and Growth, we’re focused on growing our business, our reputation, and the career of every teammate.

The Business Partner, Commercial FP&A owns the financial partnership for the full product P&L, serving as the trusted advisor to commercial leadership on the insights, analysis, and trade-off decisions that drive revenue, margin, and resource allocation across the portfolio. This role facilitates the full planning, forecasting, and financial modeling agenda for the commercial portfolio, guiding the organization toward its short- and long-term goals while maintaining financial integrity, operational efficiency, and value creation.

The Business Partner sets the direction for financial planning execution, influences commercial strategy and pricing decisions, and holds business leaders accountable for the assumptions underpinning forecasting and analytics.

• Business Partner, FP&A Own the Commercial Planning Agenda:
  Own the monthly, rolling three-month, quarterly, and full year updates, Annual Operating Plan, and 5-Year Plan for the product line P&L, setting targets and aligning them to enterprise strategy.
• Shape and Steward Strategic Performance:
  Define the KPI framework for the commercial business, hold leaders accountable to it, and escalating risks and opportunities to the executive team.
• Conduct Scenario and Sensitivity Analyses:
  Direct sensitivity and “what-if” modeling on pricing, volume, mix, and operational disruptions, and recommend the course of action to commercial leadership (e.g., plant shutdowns).
• Lead Cross-Functional Commercial Partnership:
  Act as the primary finance voice with contracting/ sales, operations, marketing, and product leadership, influencing commercial strategy and investment decisions.
• Translate Results into Executive Action:
  Own the variance narrative for the commercial P&L, clarifying business results and converting them into actions that leaders commit to and deliver.
• Elevate Insight and Capability:
  Set the standard for reporting, dashboards, and analytics across the commercial portfolio, and coach analysts on modeling and storytelling practices.

• Knowledge Flow of transactions, from actual business activity to financial statement recognition
• Organizational structure and interdepartmental responsibilities
• Ownership of budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning for a full P&L
• Variance analysis and financial performance tracking
• General accounting principles (i.e., cost-accounting, interpret financial statements and understand accrual-based accounting)
• P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow principles
• Pricing, margin, and commercial contract economics
• FP&A systems and reporting tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, SAP, Workday Adaptive)
• Skills Ability to prioritize and manage a broad portfolio independently
• Executive-level written and verbal communication
• Data analysis, interpretation, and storytelling
• Confidence to challenge senior leaders…