Finance Business Partner

Location: Nursling

About Le Creuset:
At Le Creuset, every dish begins with a story - and every story begins with people. Since 1925, weve brought generations together around the table, transforming everyday meals into cherished memories. Our legacy is built on colour, craft, and a deep passion for innovation - shaped as much by our iconic products as by the people who bring them to life.

Were not just creating cookware; were creating moments that last a lifetime. If youre inspired by heritage, driven by creativity, and ready to shape the future of the kitchen, wed love to welcome you into our story. The Recipe for Success:
Role Summary We're looking for someone who can bring together the perfect blend of data, insight and commercial understanding to help shape our business recipe for success. Partnering closely with teams across the business, you'll turn complex information into clear, actionable insights that support confident decision-making and help accelerate the delivery of our long-term strategy. This is a hands-on role in a fast-paced environment, ideal for someone who enjoys getting into the finer ingredients of performance, communicating with clarity, and building strong relationships across the business.

You'll help stir up meaningful analysis, uncover the key drivers behind results, and ensure teams have the right information on the table to focus their efforts where they matter most.

Key Responsibilities As a key ingredient in our Finance team, you'll work closely with colleagues across the business to create value for both our customers and the organisation. Combining commercial insight with strong partnerships, you'll help ensure we have the right recipe for sustainable success. Whats on your Daily Menu:

- Serving as a trusted adviser to designated business channels, providing clear, high-quality financial insight to support confident, evidence-based decision-making.

- Working alongside teams across the business to taste-test assumptions, challenge thinking, and ensure plans align with our commercial objectives.

- Collaborating with stakeholders to identify opportunities, manage risks, and deliver the best possible business performance.

- Acting as the Voice of the Customer within Finance, helping to maintain excellent customer satisfaction levels and ensuring customer needs remain at the heart of decision-making.

- Helping colleagues build their financial understanding, equipping them with the knowledge and confidence to take ownership of financial performance within their areas.

- Building strong relationships across functions, creating an environment where collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement are always on the menu. Whats on your Seasonal Menu:

- Preparing and refining rolling forecasts, budgets and financial controls to ensure robust governance and effective business planning.

- Developing compelling business cases that maximise opportunities and deliver strong returns on investment and capital employed.

- Supporting the Head of Business Partnering in delivering our strategic goals, helping to shape an optimal cost-to-serve model and a best-in-class Finance function.

- Playing a key role in shaping and delivering the UK & IE financial strategy, including supporting transformation initiatives that drive long-term value.

- Continuously improving the recipe behind price change and promotional governance processes, ensuring they remain efficient, effective and commercially focused.

- Contributing to strategic projects and cross-functional initiatives that support growth, performance and operational excellence across the business. The Perfect Blend:

What Were Looking For Success in this role comes from being able to work seamlessly across multiple business areas, combining strong stakeholder relationships with a commercially astute and constructively challenging mindset. You'll be comfortable influencing at all levels, bringing together the right ingredients of insight, collaboration and expertise to help drive better business outcomes. We're looking for someone with the right blend of technical expertise, commercial awareness, and relationship-building skills to help keep our business recipe on track.

Your Flavour Profile (Behaviours & Traits) - A professionally qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA), bringing a strong foundation of financial expertise to the table.

- Proven experience as a Finance Business Partner, successfully partnering with senior stakeholders and budget holders to influence decision-making and drive performance.

- A strong understanding of management accounts, key cost drivers, and the ingredients that contribute to margin and profitability.

- Experience preparing budgets, forecasts and variance analysis, with the ability to translate financial performance into clear, easy-to-digest insights.

- Confidence in serving up meaningful reporting and transforming data into practical recommendations that create value for the business.

- Strong analytical skills, with a talent for spotting…