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 integral 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