Senior Finance Business Partner

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Finance Business Partner to lead a small team and be a commercial heartbeat between finance, sales and manufacturing. Highly commercial role supporting the Finance Director in providing critical decision support.

Client Details

My exclusive client is a well-established company in the manufacturing sector. They are a large business who produce a wide range of products and are part of an international organisation with multiple sites in the UK and Europe.

Description

The Finance Business Partner is a critical role in the team, responsible for weekly financial information,

regular P&L forecasting, Business Partnering the Operations function and support to the

Finance Director across all site activity. You will provide key financial information for

internal and external communication as required. Duties include:

• Putting measures in placed for clear and accurate financial performance reporting
• Delivery of sales and operational information on a daily, weekly, monthly basis
• Raise and action key business issues
• Provide input to the monthly financial pack including sales and operational analysis
• Value of stock and depreciation / waste
• Support the Finance Director in driving and consolidating budget and forecast process
• Assess the business risks and opportunities.
• Take specific responsibility for material usage & wastage, standard costing and direct labour analysis.
• Product Costing - Ensure the finance team delivers robust and accurate costings for all business
• activities
• Represent finance in key commercial projects and initiatives.
• Ensure that commercial proposals, including NPD, EPD and promotional activities, are robustly appraised
• Ensure that capital and non-capital investments are robustly appraised and are consistent with the business objectives.
• Ensure that the CAPEX procedure and process is robust, understood and adhered to
• Support the Operations function in ensuring that project initiatives are clearly planned into the financial forecast and that delivery is monitored with progress clearly communicated (eg waste & labour initiatives).

Profile

The successful Senior Finance Business Partner will ideally be

• Formally qualified
• Experienced in complex manufacturing / FMCG environments
• Understand job and product costing, variance analysis, Bill of Materials
• Be an excellent communicator and strong team leader
• A proven Business Partner in a similar industry
• An Excellent financial analyst with very strong reporting skills.

Job Offer

The Senior Finance Business Partner role will command an attractive salary of £65-75,000 + benefits