Commercial Finance Business Partner, MRO

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.