This business is an established and trusted UK owner managed manufacturing business who supply globally and have sustained continued growth in turnover and profitability over the last 5 years. The last 18 months has seen the business re-structure to reflect the business size and future plans, with a revised strategy, operational efficiencies and a positive cultural shift.
The Finance Director in post has significant operational influence on the business and is currently looking to construct a budgetary planning model for 'what if' scenarios across a range of situations. Therefore, this role is very much focused around gross margin analysis and financial modelling, to support the business make decisions commercially delivering on strategic objectives whilst maximising profitability.
The business doesn't use a standard costing model for their products, they currently use a raw material mark-up, so you will need to utilise the management accounts to look at the impact of gross margin in different scenarios. You will take sales information and investigate margins by customer, region, country, product etc to enable strategic decisions to be made on new revenue streams maximising profitability. You will look into various labour scenarios, the impact of labour for growth, costings of labour etc to support their new drafted 'pay range' structure, proposed bonus schemes, and possible future legislation changes.
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