Your Challenge
We have an amazing opportunity for a Senior Finance Business Partner to join our Finance Team. Please note this role can be based in North of UK, hybrid working is available but you must be able to visit Melsonby 2 days per week. You will be expected and willing to travel to Operations facilities across the North but mainly Featherstone, and occasionally Glasgow and less so Milton Keynes (3-4 times per year).
This role of Senior Finance Business Partner you will be the Primary finance partner for UK manufacturing facility in Melsonby (£1m cost base) with potential expansion pipeline, Business Partner for North Region Signs and Signals Operations (£24m turnover) and Business Partner to R&D Department (£2m annual spend) ensuring appropriate levels of capitalisation.
Key responsibilities
1. Support UK manufacturing facility to analyse efficiency, break even analysis and cost recoverability
2. Analyse how the manufacturing facility drives value and delivers to Operations
3. Support manufacturing expansion pipeline in implementation and execution phase
4. Support manufacturing management team through month end reporting, analysis, budgets, forecasts
5. Be able to analyse and calculate standards costs and labour rates
6. Be able to challenge management in constructive ways and suggest areas for improvement
7. Understand the materials management and support in stock reporting and management
8. Undertake regular finance reviews (reporting packs and analysis) with the management teams and report back to Finance Director and SLT
9. Understand and manage the cost center reporting and cost structure in SAP
10. Suggest key finance KPI’s for manufacturing team and track against them
11. Proactively investigate operational results for the North region and suggest areas for improvement
12. Ensure finance reviews and rigour are in place to monitor operational results across the North region and provide insight to the Finance Director
13. Work with the UK Engineering and R&D team to prioritise projects with commercial value, ensuring value add to the business and monitor capitalisation levels and rationale
14. Support all areas with month end reporting, budgeting and forecasting
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Your Profile
What we are looking for
15. Managing finance in a Manufacturing business essential
16. Ability to influence others cross functionally
17. Leadership across the finance team and wider business
18. Be able to work independently as well as guide the wider team
19. Continuous improvement mindset
20. Ability to deliver efficiency initiatives and manage own time
21. Ability to prioritise own workload and flexibility to changing demands
22. Team player
23. Intermediate to advance technical and modelling skills
24. Intermediate to advanced excel skills
25. Ability to present data clearly
26. Attention to detail
27. Good communication skills
28. Sound knowledge of key Finance principles
29. Right to live and Work in the UK
30. Full UK Driving licence
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Your Benefit
What we offer
As well as providing a competitive salary and benefits package, we actively run employee opinion surveys as part of our drive to provide a comfortable and supportive working environment. We will support your development and you will also receive:
31. 25 days holiday with bank holidays in addition, increasing with length of service
32. Your Birthday off
33. Employer pension contributions
34. Employee Assistance Programme
35. Life assurance up to 6x salary