An exciting opportunity exists at Barnes Aerospace for an MRO Commercial Finance Business Partner on the Global Commercial and Sales Operations team. The Global S&C team is responsible for the Sales and Commercial Operations; from structuring and negotiating commercial deals to contract performance management. The MRO Commercial Finance Business Partner is an integral part of the Global S&C team to grow Barnes Aerospace. This role will act as a key financial partner to the MRO Sales and Commercial organization. This role will support the Global Commercial Finance Director in delivering robust financial analysis, executive-level decision support, and driving commercial process improvements across the repair (MRO) business.
Core Responsibilities:
- Partner with Sales & Commercial teams on new MRO bids.
- Prepare VP and President-level financial summaries and models.
- Standardize financial outputs to improve consistency of VP Gate preparation across sites.
- Support financial validation of bids prepared by sites.
- Develop scalable modeling templates to reduce manual intervention.
- Deliver financial insights and recommendations to senior leadership and Executive teams.
- Support financial escalation modeling (e.g., pricing escalations, margin impact).
- Provide financial comparison analysis and scenario modeling in response to site and commercial requests.
- Support finance-driven commercial decision making using internal and external insights.
- Support 3–5 year strategic planning processes.
- Provide pipeline analytics and pre-exit financial visibility.
- Partner with Commercial Finance Director to translate sales pipeline into long-term financial outlooks.
- Support transformation initiatives such as the Renewals process standardization.
- Improve and formalize RASCI frameworks for finance gate preparation.
- Develop handoffs to Genpact/shared services for scalable modeling support.
- Drive continuous improvement in commercial finance processes.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years’ experience in an FP&A or commercial finance role in an aerospace or high-quality manufacturing industry or MRO environment.
- Strong financial modeling and analytical capability.
- Ability to present financial insights to senior stakeholders.
- Preferably experience within the aerospace MRO environment (repair/aftermarket services).
- Demonstrated project management experience, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders, and drive initiatives to completion.
- Process-oriented mindset with ability to drive standardization.
- Excellent interpersonal and service recovery skills.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with an ability to work effectively with operations, quality, engineering, sales, and commercial team members.
- Strong organizational skills for managing data, priorities, and timelines.
