This is a genuine build opportunity.

Reporting into the European CFO with a partner relationship with the European Sales VP, you will create and roll out a new commercial finance agenda across Europe, creating a high-performing function that partners closely with Sales, Key Account Management and Marketing to improve commercial decision-making, profitability and sustainable growth.

You will recruit, develop and lead a team of approximately 5 commercial finance professionals while embedding a culture of business partnering across multiple European markets.

Key Responsibilities:

- Design and build an European Commercial Finance function.
- Build closer relationships between commercial finance and sales, gain new insight into Sales pain points and performance drivers, seek to create analysis to enable Sales organisation value creation
- Provide commercial and financial insight into Margin, Volume/Price Mix, Channel & Customer Profitability / Product Mix / Contribution Margin / Financial Dashboard
- Initiate and deliver product margin improvement and growth initiatives including portfolio optimisation, pricing strategy and customer investment decisions.
- Drive consistent commercial reporting and performance analysis across the region.
- Challenge commercial decisions through robust financial analysis and business partnering. Seek to implement a process allowing new contract review and sign-off.
- Develop commercial planning, forecasting and decision-support capabilities.




- Build and develop a high-performing team of approximately 5 professionals.
- Support commercial / sales organisation with data and recommendations for customer negotiations
- Influence decision-making on sales incentive plans; seek to collaborate with sales leadership to design a new incentive structure to rewards preferred commercial team behaviours.

You will be an experienced commercial finance and FP&A; leader with approximately 10–15 years’ finance experience combining FP&A;, commercial finance and supply finance, gained within a complex international manufacturing company.

You will have:

- Significant Commercial Finance or Business Finance leadership experience at a regional or general level.
- A proven track record of partnering with Sales and Commercial teams.
- Experience building or transforming commercial finance capability.
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
- Experience hiring, leading and developing high-performing teams.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; highly collaborate, highly resilient and highly proactive
- Capable of bringing ideas of best-in-class commercial finance procedures to be scaled and pragmatically implemented at MCC.
- Experience of introducing automation and AI solutions to enable focus on relationship and valuer-creation.

This is an outstanding opportunity for someone who enjoys creating from zero and leaving their mark on an international organisation.

📌 Commercial Finance Director (Barcelona)
🏢 International Manufacturing Group
📍 Barcelona