Job Description
Role Overview
This Finance Business Partner role supports senior operational leaders across manufacturing sites, providing commercial insight and financial leadership to help deliver operational and financial targets. Working closely with Operations, the role focuses on analysing performance, improving decision-making, and proactively driving efficiencies and value creation.
The position plays a key role within the site leadership team, partnering with stakeholders across the business to improve financial control, forecasting accuracy, and operational performance.
Key Responsibilities
1. Act as a finance business partner to Operations across multiple sites, ensuring clear understanding and ownership of all aspects of the profit and loss account
2. Work closely with operational teams to develop, manage and control budgets, forecasts and manufacturing plans
3. Monitor performance against plans using robust variance analysis and provide actionable insight
4. Support the preparation of month-end close and management accounts
5. Contribute to the development of financial plans that deliver cost savings and improved value for money
6. Use data and modern reporting tools, including Power BI, to produce dashboards, reports and analysis identifying trends, risks and opportunities
7. Proactively identify and drive process and performance improvements