Finance Business Partner | Southport | Up to £60,000 | Hybrid

The Opportunity

Requirement for an ambitious Management Accountant to work for a World Leader within the Rail & Rolling Stock sector. Reporting directly to the Senior Management Team; your financial insight will play a crucial and integral part of business planning and project pricing.

A highly autonomous position, you will oversee the pricing and bid work generated by the business, and line manage a Finance Assistant.

Key Responsibilities

Prepare financial reports for the business unit across customer sales, margin, operating efficiency (labour, machine etc), inventory.
Responsible for the Corporate Planning, Forecasting and Budgeting process in relation to costs and overheads to support the targeted sales
Maintain financial reporting tools and techniques to support business use requirements.
Ensure financial reports requests are completed in a timely manner to agreed deadlines
Hold meetings with Site leaders to drive improvements from the reporting produced
Ensure customer pricing requests are completed in a timely manner to agreed SLA deadlines
Prepare customer bid responses and support the business with commercial advice and awareness
Ensure key business projects are on time and cost and delivering the benefits expected once introduced
Act as the lead Financial person on site and drive commercial and financial awareness across the business
Line management of 1 direct report; to provide support and personal development
Work in a safe manner, taking reasonable care for the health and safety of yourself and other people at work, following appropriate Health and Safety guidance, training and company rules and procedures as appropriate

Candidate Essentials

Manufacturing experience.
Experience of forecasting, analysis and interpretation of financial data.
SAP experience (or previous use of alternative ERP systems)
Strong interpersonal skills.

Qualifications

CIMA qualified ideally, but will consider ACCA qualification or qualified by experience.
Degree qualified in a finance or business related discipline.

How to apply for the Finance Business Partner role

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Likely Job Titles: Management Accountant, Finance Manager, Finance BP, Finance Business Partner

About ford & Stanley group

Ford & Stanley Talent Services Group are in the business of people and performance. Our mission is to create one million better workdays through facilitating great recruitment, leadership and occupational mental fitness. We support our clients in their most challenging business areas - recruiting, developing and retaining the best talent from shop floor to boardroom.

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