Commercial Finance Business Partner

BAT is evolving at pace into a global multi-category business. Our purpose is to create A Better Tomorrow™ by Building a Smokeless World. To achieve our ambition, we are looking for colleagues who are ready to join us on this journey! Tomorrow can’t wait, let’s shape it together!

British American Tobacco Vietnam has an exciting opportunity for a Marketing Commercial Finance Business Partner in HCMC, Vietnam

The Marketing Finance Manager partners with Finance, Marketing Deployment, Trade Marketing, Supply Chain, and distributors to translate commercial strategy into disciplined financial plans, pricing choices, trade investment decisions, and performance actions.

The role supports profitable growth, strong governance, and effective resource allocation.

Your key responsibilities will include:

Business

• Develop financial plans, forecasts, and scenarios for marketing investment, trade terms, customer allowance, pricing, and portfolio initiatives. • Evaluate pricing, excise, competitor actions, portfolio changes, and trade investment impact on revenue, margin, volume, affordability, and market position. • Manage trade terms, customer allowance, distributor margins, commissions, and related reconciliations with master distributors and regional offices. • Prepare pricing notes, business cases, decision papers, and management reports for senior partners and governance forums. • Track competitor pricing, trade activity, market performance, and profit pool movements to support commercial decision-making. • Coordinate planning, forecasting, reporting, and period-end activities with Corporate Finance, Marketing, Trade Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, and regional teams. • Maintain financial controls and governance across marketing finance, pricing, trade investment, and distributor-related activities. • Improve tools, templates, dashboards, and data sources to strengthen planning, reporting, and decision support.

Collaboration and Development

• Build strong working relationships across Finance and commercial teams. • Collaborate effectively with internal team members and external business partners. • Proactively identify development priorities and take ownership of personal growth. • Maintain high standards of accuracy, timeliness, and delivery. • Communicate financial insights clearly and influence partners through constructive challenge.

What are we looking for?

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field; ACCA, CPA, CIMA, CA, or MBA is an advantage. • Relevant experience in commercial finance, marketing finance, trade finance, financial planning and analysis, or business partnering, preferably in FMCG or another dynamic commercial environment. • Strong financial modelling, planning, forecasting, pricing, investment evaluation, and variance-analysis skills. • Good understanding of trade terms, customer allowance, distributor finance, gross margin, excise, revenue growth, and route-to-market economics. • Ability to turn complex financial and commercial information into clear business recommendations. • Strong analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and communication skills in English. • Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills; experience with SAP, enterprise planning systems, business intelligence tools, or dashboards is an advantage. • High attention to detail, sound judgment, integrity, adaptability, and a proactive approach to improving ways of working.