Job Description
This substantial FMCG manufacturing company operates across two sites in Lancashire creating and distributing products for customers worldwide. Their policy of continuous inward investment has enabled them to expand rapidly, investing in modern production facilities and warehouse automation to ensure they remain industry leaders with a global presence. A recent restructure of the finance department has created a new role for a Finance Business Partner to work closely with department heads to manage costs, improve efficiencies and drive operational performance. The role will involve close liaison with their heads of department and budget holders, providing exposure to senior management and leadership throughout the business. Key responsibilities will be:
•Reporting against budgets for all departments across the business
•Challenging operational performance and suggesting improvements
•Collaborating with stakeholders to drive cost reduction initiatives
•Working closely with production, operations and sales / procurement teams
•Reporting and analysis of costs, margins and performance
•Producing product range costs to fix twice yearly pricing
•Supporting planning and decision making around “make or buy” scenarios
•Financial modelling and scenario / trend analysis
•Proposing and creating new solutions and processes
Central to this role will be the requirement to communicate across the business and provide insightful and actionable information. You will be working with SAGE 200 and should be comfortable manipulating large volumes of data in Excel into meaningful reports and analysis for non-finance managers. Familiarity with SQL would be very useful as you will be working with and improving existing financial models used to capture costs and determine pricing across all their SKU’s.
The preferred candidate profile would be a qualified accountant (CIMA or ACCA / ACA) or strong QBE with knowledge from the manufacturing / FMCG sector. This will be a senior appointment in the finance team and requires a credible individual with the tenacity and people skills to drive change. This will be an onsite role and applications would be welcomed from candidates with a strong management accounting or finance business partner / budgeting & forecasting background. This is a unique opportunity to join a business focussed on staff well-being with a family feel and highly collaborative culture.