Finance Business Partner

• Senior stakeholder management particularly with the COO and Operations Leadership Team.
• Working with key stakeholders to explore areas of strategic change and how this can lead to reduced operating costs and improved customer satisfaction.
• Producing business cases to support recommended areas of change ensuring impacts are accurately measured and impacts understood.
• Provision of coherent, concise reporting of operational performance, focusing on financial and non-financial KPIs, with key drivers understood.
• Leading regular reviews with the manufacturing management team of performance, focusing on both material and labour impacts.
• Working with stakeholders to critically evaluate the ability to meet targets, identifying areas of risk and/or opportunities to improve performance.
• Ensuring that there is a solid understanding of cost across the Leadership Team, thereby promoting informed decision making with a cost-conscious mindset.
• Preparing detailed Budget models for manufacturing, together with monthly forecast updates. Extensive analytical review, focusing on year-on-year movements of both volumes and cost, with key focus on labour and materials.  

About You:

• A qualified or part-qualified finance professional (CIMA, ACCA, or ACA).
• Strong experience in management accounting and financial analysis.
• Proven ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders across different departments.
• A critical thinker who is curious about the business and excited to support and challenge the business to deliver against ambitious growth targets
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present financial information clearly and effectively.
• Self-motivated, ambitious finance professional