Senior Finance Business Partner

Recruiter
Michael Page
Location
County Durham, Darlington
Salary
£55000 - £65000 per annum
Posted
19 Mar 2021
Closes
16 Apr 2021
Ref
JN -032021-2371575
Contact
Mark Houghton
Job role
Finance business partner
Sector
Manufacturing/engineering
Contract type
Permanent
Hours
Full time
Experience level
Qualified accountant

This Senior Finance Business Partner position is an outstanding opportunity to work with a global manufacturing company where you will work with a number of different departments, whilst developing new systems and delivering significant operational changes. The position is a blended role of management reporting, people management and business partnering.

Client Details

Global multi-national manufacturing business.

Description

  • Managing a small team working on the Supply Chain operations in the UK
  • Preparing sections of the Management Accounts and supporting reconciliations whilst working closely with the central UK finance function
  • Building strong relationships and working closely with many non-finance stakeholders across the Operational Leadership Team including production, warehousing, planning & logistics to monitor cost, identify opportunities and add value.
  • Improving the quality and understanding of financial reporting and presenting this information in the most useful way for each group of stakeholders
  • Create and continually improve a suite of daily/weekly/monthly KPIs that drive improved business performance
  • Lead an annual budgeting process then investigating and reporting on variances from actual to budget
  • Reviewing business cases for projects, investments and sourcing decision making and challenging with financial insight and analysis
  • Be an integral part of project teams delivering business change, acting as the financial expert and working with the business leadership ensuring that all activity is delivering the identified financial benefits.
  • Help the business in its transition to a new ERP system in the medium term.

Profile

  • CIMA/ ACCA/ ACA Qualified
  • Ideally a minimum of 4 years post qualified experience
  • Management accounting experience covering aspects such as weekly KPI & monthly financial reporting, standard costing, budgeting, variance analysis and investment evaluation, ideally within a manufacturing or supply chain environment
  • Knowledge of a varied range of systems, in particular SAP, however also experience of working with and extracting/consolidating data from a number of legacy systems as the business builds towards an ERP solution

Job Offer

  • £55,000 - £65,000 per annum depending on experience
  • Management Bonus Scheme