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- Work with manufacturing sites to understand and validate current cost structures, creating a consistent financial baseline.
- Build and maintain the business case for transformation projects, including efficiency assessments, Capex modelling, and ongoing cost implications.
- Analyse and track one-off and recurring transformation costs, ensuring full alignment with relevant budget owners across the business.
- Support supplier negotiations through detailed cost/benefit analysis and financial modelling.
- Develop and monitor key financial metrics for transformation projects and provide insightful reporting to senior stakeholders.
- Ensure close collaboration with the wider finance team, facilitating alignment on progress, budgetary impact, and decision-making.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that the financial implications of all initiatives are clearly understood and communicated.
- Strong financial acumen, with a deep understanding of financial analysis, cost management, and value creation.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to explain complex financial concepts to non-finance stakeholders.
- Demonstrates strategic thinking aligned with broader business objectives.
- High level of commercial awareness and the ability to support and influence cross-functional teams.
- Organised, disciplined, and delivery-focused.
- ACA, CIMA or ACCA qualified with significant post-qualification experience in a site manufacturing environment
- Proven track record in a finance leadership or senior business partnering role.
- Experience working on complex transformation projects to tight deadlines.
- Strong relationship-building skills and the ability to influence at all levels of the organisation.
- Articulate communicator – clear, persuasive, and instructional when required.
- Sets high standards for themselves and motivates others to meet them.
