We have an amazing opportunity for a Finance Business Partner to join our Finance Team.
In 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.
The role is based in Basingstoke with the wider finance team but requires travel to Melsonby, Richmond with 2-3 overnight stay on a quarterly basis.
Key Responsibilities
* Support UK manufacturing facility to analyse efficiency, break even analysis and cost recoverability.
* Analyse how the manufacturing facility drives value and delivers to Operations.
* Support manufacturing expansion pipeline in implementation and execution phase.
* Support manufacturing management team through month end reporting, analysis, budgets, forecasts.
* Be able to analyse and calculate standards costs and labour rates.
* Be able to challenge management in constructive ways and suggest areas for improvement.
* Understand the materials management and support in stock reporting and management.
* Undertake regular finance reviews (reporting packs and analysis) with the management teams and report back to Finance Director and SLT.
* Understand and manage the cost center reporting and cost structure in SAP.
* Suggest key finance KPI’s for manufacturing team and track against them.
* Proactively investigate operational results for the North region and suggest areas for improvement.
* Ensure finance reviews and rigour are in place to monitor operational results across the North region and provide insight to the Finance Director.
* 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.
* Support all areas with month end reporting, budgeting and forecasting.
Your Profile
* SAP 4HANA experience preferred.
* Experience of manufacturing and or service and projects preferred.
* Knowledge of stock management, costing and provision calculations.
* Ability to influence others cross functionally.
* Self-starter with proactive mindset.
* Continuous improvement approach.
* Ability to deliver efficiency initiatives and manage own time.
* Ability to prioritise own workload and flexibility to changing demands.
* Team player.
* Intermediate to advance technical and modelling skills.
* Intermediate to advanced excel skills.
* Ability to present data clearly.
* Attention to detail.
* Good communication skills.
* Sound knowledge of key Finance principles.
* SAP (beneficial not mandatory).
* Right to live and Work in the UK.
* Full UK Driving licence.
Your Benefits
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:
* Company Car/Allowance.
* 25 days holiday with bank holidays in addition, increasing with length of service.
* Your Birthday off.
* Employer pension contributions.
* Employee Assistance Programme.
* Life assurance up to 6x salary.
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