Senior Finance Business Partner

Join Musgrave - A Legacy of Innovation, Community, and Excellence

Musgrave is one of Europe's most successful family-owned businesses, with a rich 150-year legacy in food and brand innovation. We're proud to serve communities across Ireland and Spain, feeding one in three people every day through 18 iconic brands like SuperValu, Centra, Mace, Frank and Honest, and Musgrave MarketPlace. By supporting thousands of retail and foodservice family businesses, we make a positive impact on the communities they serve. We're committed to becoming the most trusted and sustainable business in Ireland, and we're looking for dynamic, forward-thinking individuals to join us on this journey.

As we continue our journey toward becoming Ireland's most trusted and sustainable business, we have an exciting opportunity for a successful candidate to join our Retail Finance team

Role Purpose

The Senior Finance Business Partner will play a key role in strengthening the Retail Finance team by providing commercial finance support, challenge and insight across assigned Retail business areas.

The role will partner closely with senior business stakeholders, the Senior FP&A Manager, wider Finance colleagues and BPS / Infosys to ensure performance is clearly understood, forecasts are robust, risks and opportunities are visible, and financial actions are followed through.

The role will include ownership of Centra and SuperValu cost centres, retailer rebate relationship management, loyalty insight, stock initiatives, Business Development and Store Development support, quarterly balance sheet reviews, and budgeting and forecasting.

Role Shape and Key Interfaces

The role will act as a senior business partner between Finance, business stakeholders and BPS / Infosys. The successful candidate will own the financial responsibility for cost centre management and build strong relationships across:

Centra and SuperValu cost centre owners

Retailer rebate and loyalty stakeholders

Stock Initiatives

Business Development and Store Development

Ensuring Finance provides clear commercial challenge, timely insight and practical support.

What you'll be doing:
Retail Cost Centre Business Partnering

Act as Finance Business Partner for assigned Retail business areas, including Centra and SuperValu cost centres, supporting business owners with performance review, forecast development, budget management, financial challenge and action tracking.

Translate trading, cost and operational performance into clear commercial insight, identifying risks, opportunities and required actions.

Provide constructive challenge to stakeholders to ensure decisions are supported by robust financial analysis and aligned to Retail financial targets.

Support WSOM, POP, RSC, Business Development and Store Development activity through financial analysis, commercial challenge and decision support.

Forecasting, Budgeting and Performance Management

Lead budgeting and forecasting processes for assigned areas, ensuring assumptions are clear, risks and opportunities are visible, and outputs are aligned with business performance trends.

Own monthly performance reviews for assigned areas, including variance analysis, forecast updates and action follow-up.

Support the wider Retail Finance rhythm across weekly performance reporting, monthly close, quarterly forecasting and annual budgeting.

Provide clear commentary and insight to senior leadership teams to support informed decision-making.

Retailer Rebates andLoyalty

Lead Finance support for retailer rebate activity, including relationship management, query resolution, forecasting, budgeting and governance.

Oversee monthly and exceptional retailer payment cycles, ensuring appropriate review, approval, documentation and follow-up.

Review the monthly Loyalty Report and convert outputs into clear commercial insight for Finance and business stakeholders.

Lead quarterly reviews of exceptional payment activity, ensuring appropriate governance, lessons learned and action tracking.

Act as the primary Finance liaison between Retail Finance Business Partners and Infosys partners, ensuring issues, feedback and improvement opportunities are captured, prioritised and progressed.

Support the transition to more effective ways of working with business partners and Infosys, including clearer accountabilities, better communication channels and stronger service delivery feedback.

Help ensure Finance retains ownership of commercial judgement while process execution and support activity are effectively managed through the shared service model.

Governance, Controls and Balance Sheet

Support quarterly balance sheet reviews for assigned areas, ensuring balances are understood, supported and challenged where appropriate.

Ensure retailer rebate, accrual and payment-related processes are supported by clear governance, documentation and ownership.

Identify control gaps, process risks and opportunities to simplify or improve ways of working.

Continuous Improvement and Digital Enablement

Improve the quality, speed and usefulness of reporting by reducing manual effort, simplifying recurring processes and increasing time spent on insight and business partnering.

Use financial systems, reporting tools and data visualisation to create clearer performance visibility for stakeholders.

Support the ongoing development of Retail Finance reporting, forecasting and decision-support capability.

Share learning and best practice across the Finance team, including local and India teams.

What we are looking for:

Qualified accountant preferred, with strong commercial finance, FP&A or finance business partnering experience.

Strong experience in budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, variance analysis and performance review.

Proven ability to partner with senior stakeholders and convert financial analysis into clear commercial actions.

Experience in retail, FMCG, multi-site, commercial, customer, pricing, margin, promotional, rebate or cost-centre environments would be advantageous.

Strong analytical capability, including advanced Excel and experience with reporting, planning or data visualisation tools.

Comfortable working across Finance, business teams and shared service partners.

Able to operate with pace, ownership and judgement in a changing environment.

Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence effectively at senior levels.

Strong attention to detail, balanced with the ability to understand the broader commercial context.

What success looks like:

Business stakeholders receive clear, timely and commercially useful finance support.

Centra and SuperValu cost centre forecasts are robust, well challenged and linked to clear actions.

Retailer rebate and loyalty activity is governed, understood and translated into insight.

Quarterly balance sheet reviews are completed with clear ownership of follow-up actions.

Business partners and Infosys ways of working are structured, with clear communication and issue resolution.

Reporting is simplified, more automated and more focused on insight than production.

The Retail Finance team has clearer ownership across business partnering, reporting, forecasting and shared service interfaces.

Why Musgrave:

Career Development: With a commitment to your personal and professional growth, Musgrave offers numerous opportunities for advancement and learning.

Collaborative Environment: Work alongside a passionate team, where your contributions will make a significant impact

Innovation Focus: Be part of a company that values forward-thinking solutions

Community Focus: Be part of a company that truly values its communities and strives to make a positive impact.

Be Part of a Legacy: Join a company with a long-standing commitment to community and innovation.

Musgrave is an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from diverse candidates. If we can make any accommodations to enable you to be the best version of yourself during the interview, please let us know.

Musgrave operate a Work Smart hybrid working model where you can alternate your time between connecting and collaborating in the business and working remotely.