Finance Business Partner

This large manufacturing organisation designs and manufactures at significantly tight tolerances and exports to a range of countries internationally. They have incredibly strict processes and standards in their engineering to ensure the highest standards in safety and have 4 main sites in the UK, along with multiple sites in Europe and the US. As a group they turnover over £4 billion annually, and have a very strong order book of £18 billion, ensuring that even with no further business or new orders, they could comfortably operate as they are for circa 5 years.

The Finance Business Partner Job

This job as Finance Business Partner will be embedded within a multi-function environment, providing a service to both finance and non-finance functions in order to support the delivery of the annual financial objectives. You will be heavily involved in costings; business planning; budgeting and forecasting; investments and continuous improvement initiatives.

The organisation is also implementing SAP 4/HANA and support this within your department.

You will:

• Have financial responsibility and accountability for specific projects from a finance perspective.
• Support and manage costings, delivering accurate, timely and valuable management information
• Control overhead costs for allocated departments
• Be involved in the SAP 4/HANA implementation

This role will give you broad experience of manufacturing finance, involving cost base and projects, as well as business partnering. As a result of the evolving workload, this position offers great potential to progress within the team.

Requirements

• You will be a Part Qualified or Qualified Accountant with experience within a large, manufacturing based environment
• You must have business partnering experience to operational staff, in particular within manufacturing and costings, with key knowledge of manufacturing based performance metrics
• Background of project and / or overhead cost control within manufacturing
• Experience of SAP would be advantageous

Benefits

This role will pay up to £55,000 basic, depending on experience + bonus, paid overtime, will manage your own diary and work on site for 2-3 days working flexibly to suit. You'll also receive a pension of up to 14%, annual salary review, 25 days annual leave + the option to purchase 15 days additional leave, enhanced parental leave, subsidised on site meals and fantastic career progression opportunities.

You will also be joining a growing team of enthusiastic individuals, passionate about the role they play. They have a positive reputation for delivering quality advice and support to the multi-disciplinary manufacturing team. They are held in high regard by their colleagues. Our loyalty and team spirit is evident in everything we do.