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STARK UK is a leading building materials distributor in Northern Europe, and we are looking for a a highly motivated and commercially astute Senior Finance Business Partner – Commercial to join our finance team. This role will act as a trusted partner to the commercial team, providing strategic financial insight and challenge across pricing, product, branch operations, and supplier relationships. You will play a key role in driving profitability, shaping commercial strategy, and supporting decision-making that balances supplier value, margin growth, and operational efficiency. This role requires a strong blend of financial expertise, analytical skills, and business acumen, with the ability to build trusted relationships and challenge senior stakeholders. Key areas of responsibilities: Owning the rebate forecast process and investigating ways to continually improve the accuracy and efficiency of the process and working closely with the Rebate team to report on cash collection. Support supplier cost increase negotiations through detailed modelling. Track margin and EBITDA benefits resulting in category deals. Development fund reconciliation and ownership. The SFPB will be responsible for managing the 3 x Finance Business Partners. What You’ll Be Doing Decision Support: Provide financial insight and challenge on pricing strategy, cost inflation, supplier rebates, discounts, and margin optimisation. Business Partnering: Partner with Commercial, Sales, and Branch Operations teams to drive performance, profitability, and growth. Strategic Finance Leadership: Support the implementation, delivery and on-going tracking of key strategic initiatives. Performance Management & Analysis: Deliver high-quality analysis of business performance, identifying risks, opportunities, and improvement areas. Financial Planning & Analysis: Manage the financial planning process and own the production of the rebate budget and re-forecasts. Performance evaluations: Influence decision-making through financial modelling, scenario planning, and sensitivity analysis. Process improvement: Champion continuous improvement in reporting, systems, and processes to enhance business insight and efficiency. Leadership: Provide leadership and guidance to junior finance business partners and analysts, supporting their growth and development. What We’re Looking For ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent accounting qualification. Proven track record in a commercial finance/business partnering role, ideally within builders’ merchants, distribution, construction supplies, or a related trade sector. Strong knowledge of pricing, margin management, and supplier rebate structures. Excellent commercial acumen with the ability to translate financial insight into business action. Confident stakeholder manager, able to challenge and influence senior leaders across Sales, Operations, and Commercial. Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills. Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage non-finance stakeholders. Experience managing or coaching a small team is highly desirable. Excellent Communication Skills: Ability to communicate complex financial information to non-financial stakeholders, with a clear and accessible approach. Comfortable presenting to senior management. Relationship Building: Proven experience in building and maintaining strong, productive relationships across various departments. Ability to influence and challenge stakeholders in a constructive and collaborative manner. What’s in it for you Competitive Base salary Company Car Discretionary bonus Private Medical Retirement savings plan Life assurance Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave for anyone expecting or adopting a child A wide range of voluntary benefits including holiday buying, discounted gym membership, car salary sacrifice scheme, Cycle2Work, Benenden Healthcare and more. Access to a wealth of health and wellbeing services including access to online GP appointments and mental health support WorkPerks – A platform home to hundreds of all your favourite high street and online discounts via the provider Reward Gateway Why Choose Us? Quality - We’re unwavering in our commitment to providing outstanding products and service that exceed our customers’ expectations. Supportive Environment - Join a culture that prioritises your growth, with the resources and support you need to excel. We listen and learn – we know we haven’t always got all the answers – listening and learning with you is what helps provide the best service to our customers. Professional Development - We are invested in your success! Can we add this instead? You have a real chance to progress- the only limits are your own Explore our apprenticeships, training, and mentoring programs designed to elevate your career. Great Benefits - Enjoy a compelling package that includes a competitive salary, bonuses, pension schemes, and life assurance, among many other perks! Work-Life Balance - We value your well-being and offer flexible working hours and a hybrid working model to help you find your ideal rhythm What's Next If your application is successful, our Talent team will reach out to arrange an interview and answer any questions you may have. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments to ensure you can perform at your best throughout the application and interview process. STARK Building Materials UK comprises 14 brands, including one of the UK’s leading builders’ merchants Jewson, along with JP Corry and Normans, specialist brands Minster and Jewson Civils Frazer, as well as major timber importer and distributor, International Timber. With over 600 dedicated builders merchant branches and distribution centres, this makes us one of the UK’s largest retailers and distributors of building and construction materials. However, more importantly, our dedicated team and the high-quality products we offer make us trusted, expert partners to the industry. Together, we give our customers hassle-free access to the market-leading, sustainable solutions they need to build responsibly for the future. If you’d like to build that future with us, check out our careers page or get in touch. Introduce yourself to our recruiters and we'll get in touch if there's a role that seems like a good match. At STARK Building Materials UK, we are known for our building distribution, but in reality, it is our colleagues that drive our business forward. All around the UK, in our branches, warehouses and offices, our team give everything to make building better for our customers. We value our customers, the communities we work in and the colleagues in our team, who collectively build our business to ever greater heights every day. We strive to create a workplace where all colleagues feel safe and empowered to do their best and are comfortable to bring their true selves to work every day. We are proud that we offer all our colleagues a great place to work.