Overview
MERITUS are recruiting for a Logistics Business Controller to join our aerospace client on an initial 8 month contract within their manufacturing controls team in Broughton.
Logistics Business Controller - INSIDE IR35 - £29.00 PER HOUR - BROUGHTON, FLINTSHIRE - CONTRACT UNTIL 31/12/2026 - SINGLE STAGE INTERVIEW PROCESS
Planning & Challenge
* Develop a strong understanding of the operational environment, including strategy, governance, challenges, and constraints.
* Lead financial planning processes, ensuring accurate forecasting, providing guidance aligned with the overall financial position, and constructively challenging business requests.
* Establish and maintain multi-year financial targets.
* Build and manage financial models, simulations, scenarios, and business cases (e.g. projects, acquisitions, tenders) to support decision-making and provide clear insight into financial impacts.
* Proactively identify financial risks and opportunities, advising on appropriate mitigation strategies.
Analysis & Advisory
* Deliver accurate and appropriately detailed financial reporting.
* Evaluate financial performance, analyse variances, and recommend corrective actions.
* Analyse cost structures, revenue streams, unit costs, and research and development expenditure.
* Identify key drivers for optimisation and competitiveness, and track the realisation of savings.
* Anticipate financial risks and provide mitigation recommendations.
* Identify and highlight financial opportunities.
Execution Support & Data Quality
* Calculate hourly rates and support resource reviews and headcount target setting.
* Prepare charge-back and cost reallocation models.
* Approve purchasing requests, audit purchase orders below approval thresholds (using a sampling approach), and review commitments and accruals.
* Initiate cost re-booking and cost transfers where required.
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