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Job Title: Finance Operations Manager
Location: Coleford, Gloucestershire
Pay rate: Negotiable
Contact Length: 9 months
Overview and Job purpose
Provide financial and analytical business partnering, managing approximately £40m in operational costs and driving efficiencies across £3m of Supply Chain waste. This role is also the key business partner for our Fuel for Growth programme, managing £5m in cost opportunities and collaborating with the wider supply chain organisation. Further duties include updating and inputting month-end close activities, leading operational input into cycle forecasts, Waste/KPI reporting, internal control policy management, and driving transformation activities across Supply Chain finance.
Key Responsibilities
Business Partnering and Reporting
- Provide Finance business partnering support to all teams within Supply Chain, Quality & Engineering (N-1 of Site Leadership team) and deputise for the Senior Finance Manager when required
- Lead the preparation of opex (£40m) forecast updates ensuring all deviations are clearly understood and communicated.
- Supply Chain annual budget preparation with the Senior Finance Manager - leading engagement of supply chain managers in process and building appropriate templates to assist managers in creating and tracking their budgets
- Lead BP for Operation labour, working with Head of Production to ensure accurate tracking of labour usage and spend
- Business partner the Coleford site capability and continuous improvement teams
- Support and identify process improvements to deliver against other Internal Control and JSOX requirements
- Support the SC Finance Director and SBFE central SC finance team in delivering the SBFE BPO projects and transformation
- Identify new opportunities to deliver efficiency and cost saving initiatives for the business and business partner the Fuel for Growth transformation lead helping drive £5-6m of savings annually.
Projects and process improvements
- Critically review all SC Finance monthly processes with an ambition to automate and harmonise processes wherever possible.
- Support the SC Finance Director and SBFE central SC finance team in delivering the SBFE BPO projects and transformation
- Business partner the Coleford site capability and continuous improvement teams and support the FBP in project delivery
- Support and identify process improvements to deliver against Internal Control and JSOX requirements
- Support key fuel for growth projects and provide financial support to project teams to ensure delivery
Primary Interactions
- Senior SC Manager and the Supply Chain finance team
- Commercial finance, FP&A & Financial control teams
- Supply Chain FD
- SBFE SC Finance Central team
- Factory Leadership team and Site Budget owners
- Manufacturing, engineering, quality, planning, logistics and EHS teams
Qualifications and Professional Experience
- Financial acumen - Part/Fully qualified accountant
- Ability to work within cross-functional teams & projects
- Experience in FMCG supply chain business partnering an advantage
Key Competencies and Skills
- Confident & credible in front of Internal & External business partners
- Pro-active cross functional working skills
- Instinctively able to challenge status quo with healthy balance of assertiveness and tact
- Track record of ability to build good working relationships internally and externally
- Track record of effective prioritisation and decision making
- The ability to work independently, with initiative, in a fast moving environment
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills as well as systems and process skills
- Knowledge of SAP and BI
Randstad Business Support is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
