Commercial Finance Business Partner

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Crane Authentication (NXT) is a security and authentication company that combines scientific expertise and advanced technologies to protect products, identities, and government programs. It provides high-security labeling (such as PROFOUND micro-optics), connected traceability systems, licensing and digitized compliance solutions, and digital intelligence platforms for online brand protection and fraud prevention. Crane Authentication partners with governments and global brands to combat counterfeiting, illicit trade, and brand misuse across physical and digital environments, building integrated security ecosystems that reinforce trust, compliance, and supply-chain integrity.

📋 Description

• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to the leadership team, providing commercial and financial insight, objective challenge and enterprise-wide perspective • Identify growth opportunities and performance improvement priorities across Crane • Advise leadership on prioritising opportunities, resources and investments based on strategic fit, probability of success, risk-adjusted return, cash profile and organisational capacity • Translate strategic objectives into measurable business outcomes through strategic planning, annual operating plans, forecasts, resource allocation and performance management • Lead a commercial operating cadence across pipeline, orders, backlog, revenue, margin, working capital, cash and profitability • Drive forecasting excellence through integrated pipeline-to-cash visibility, improved forecast accuracy and proactive risk and opportunity management • Partner with Sales leadership to improve pipeline quality, opportunity qualification, funnel discipline, conversion rates and forecasting performance • Evaluate major bids, tenders, contracts, renewals and investment opportunities through financial analysis, business cases, risk assessment and governance • Develop market, customer, product and competitor insights to identify growth opportunities and support strategic decisions • Lead pricing and profitability initiatives, including value-based pricing, pricing discipline, customer and product mix optimisation and margin improvement • Conduct customer, contract, product, channel and portfolio profitability analyses • Partner with Sales, Marketing, Product, Commercial Excellence, Operations and Finance teams on commercial growth initiatives • Drive cash generation and working capital performance by evaluating contract structures, milestone billing, collection risks, revenue recognition dependencies and cash conversion opportunities • Establish reliable commercial and financial reporting, analytics and governance through improved data quality, system integration, performance visibility, reporting automation and decision-making capabilities

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience in commercial finance, strategic finance, business partnering, deal support or growth-oriented finance leadership • Proven ability to partner effectively with senior Sales, General Management and business leadership stakeholders • Strong financial modelling, forecasting, pricing, profitability and scenario-planning capability • Experience translating commercial pipelines and backlog into credible revenue, margin and cash forecasts • Experience supporting complex solution sales, long sales-cycle businesses, tenders, government programmes or major contracts • Demonstrated ability to identify risks and opportunities early and convert analysis into practical countermeasures • Experience assessing complex contracts, including milestone structures, payment terms, delivery dependencies and risk allocation • Strong understanding of working capital, cash conversion and the financial implications of commercial terms • Ability to challenge constructively, exercise independent judgement and influence decisions without direct authority • Ability to operate effectively across multiple countries, cultures and functions in a matrix organisation • Excellent communication skills, executive presence, integrity and professional judgement • Evidence of improving business outcomes, rather than solely producing analysis or reporting • Experience in government solutions, authentication, secure identity, technology, software, Track & Trace or another regulated sector preferred • Exposure to public-sector procurement, bid governance and complex contract negotiations preferred • Experience applying a structured business operating system, continuous-improvement methodology or growth framework preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time employment • Remote work arrangement

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