Finance Business Partner

The Business

A long-established and globally owned manufacturer in South Manchester is looking for Finance Business Partner to join their team on a permanent basis. This is a great opportunity for someone with experience in manufacturing and/or standard costing that’s looking for a stable role as the business continues with its improvement plans.

The Finance Business Partner will be responsible for delivering financial support to the manufacturing operations team at the Manchester site. This will involve supporting day to day activities and enabling informed decision making. Additionally you will be responsible for producing robust reporting and insightful analysis as well as being heavily involved in site initiatives through financial validation of projects and challenging assumptions.

The role will also support the site in key activities in the financial calendar such as monthly forecasting, annual budgeting and the strategic plan process.

• Monthly accruals and balance sheet reconciliations
• Stock accounting, reporting and supporting analysis
• Financial ownership for Manchester P&L
• Business partnering with local site management team
• Building of forecasts, budget and strategic plan in conjunction with the local site management team
• Supporting the Capital expenditure (Capex) process for the Manchester site including: validating and challenging capital expenditure requests (CERs), tracking CER approvals, capex forecasting and assessing Assets ready for use
• Standard cost updates and working with the site teams to optimise product costs
• Adhoc analysis and reporting

• Up to 10% annual bonus dependent on company performance
• Hybrid working (up to 2 from home) after settling in period
• 33 days holiday inc. bank holidays
• Flex start and finish times between 8am and 6pm, 36 hours per week with early Friday finish (1 hour lunch)
• Comprehensive mental health and wellbeing support, including access to counselling, an employee assistance programme, mortgage brokering services, and additional resources for you and your family
• Free on-site car parking

To be considered for this role, you will be towards the end of your professional qualifications (ACA/CIMA/ACCA) or fully qualified with experience in manufacturing/engineering (ideal) and a working exposure to standard costing. This role offers an exciting opportunity for a pro-active enthusiastic finance professional to work closely with the Manchester operations team and get involved in multiple exciting initiatives and projects across the site to improve productivity and reduce unit cost.

Interested? Please reply with your CV attached and we’ll be in touch should you be shortlisted for an initial conversation.