Finance Business Partner

Cook Group • Bloomington, IN

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About The Position

The Finance Business Partner 1 acts as a strategic partner globally to our Sales and Marketing departments. The role combines financial planning and analysis, data-driven decision support and process improvement to help drive revenue growth, margin expansion, and operational efficiency to elevate finance impact to the business.

Requirements

• Degree in Finance/Accounting or related field is required.
• Minimum of 5 years strategic finance experience, supporting key business leaders and initiatives.
• Strong business acumen and proven ability to rapidly develop a deep understanding of commercial functions—revenue drivers, pricing levers, demand planning, operating-expense structures, and workforce cost components.
• Advanced analytical mindset, strong business curiosity, and enthusiasm for leveraging modern analytics, automation, and visualization tools to amplify Finance’s impact.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills (English); able to translate complex data into clear, compelling narratives and influence stakeholders at all levels.

Nice To Haves

• CPA, CMA, MBA, or other applicable advanced certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Performance Analysis & Insight Generation
• Leverage deep knowledge of global strategy and financial objectives to evaluate performance, forecasts, and plans, ensuring financial results align with organizational priorities.
• Conduct root-cause analyses to explain not only what changed in financial performance but why; identify drivers across revenue, margin, operating expenses, and commercial metrics. Design, build, and continuously enhance data models, dashboards, and visualizations (e.g., Power BI) to enable self-service insights, faster decisions, and greater transparency.
• Analyze financial results and performance trends, clearly communicating key variances and underlying drivers to stakeholders.
• Assess historical profitability and commercial performance by market, channel, customer segment, and product portfolio, and recommend optimization actions.
• Deliver proactive, data-driven financial insights and recommendations that guide senior leadership’s strategic and operational decisions.
• Distill complex financial analyses into concise recommendations, highlighting risks, opportunities, and actionable next steps.
• Forecasting, Planning & Close Support
• Lead end-to-end forecasting for assigned business units—producing revenue, margin, and expense projections—and perform data-driven variance analysis to boost forecast accuracy and deliver actionable insights, leveraging automated data-integration and reporting tools.
• Drive monthly and quarterly close cycles, supplying timely financial analysis, forecast updates, and key management metrics with exceptional accuracy.
• Commercial Programs & Incentive Analysis
• Evaluate sales-incentive compensation programs to measure effectiveness, financial impact, and alignment with business objectives.
• Pinpoint and execute process-improvement and automation initiatives that streamline financial workflows, strengthen data integration, and upgrade reporting.
• Design and deploy solutions with Power Query, Power Automate, advanced Excel, and emerging AI technologies to cut manual effort, raise accuracy, and accelerate insight generation.
• Modernize FP&A by introducing new tools, broadening data accessibility, and continuously enhancing dashboards and analytics to boost efficiency, scalability, and decision quality.
• Collaboration & Projects
• Act as a support to other Finance team members sharing best practices and guidance, as relevant.
• Leads or supports projects or workstreams that require coordination across stakeholders.
• Data Integrity & Executive Reporting
• Safeguard data integrity by reconciling and validating financial information in partnership with Accounting and Operations; apply expertise in management (internal, business-line) vs. statutory (external, compliance) reporting and in standard costing within a manufacturing environment.
• Develop and deliver insightful financial analyses and presentation materials for executive leadership, board meetings, and external stakeholders.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees