Finance Business Partner

Our client is a £100m + turnover manufacturing and distribution business, rich in heritage and family owned for many generations.

The role:
As Finance Business Partner you will be the 'face of Finance’ to the business. You will need to build relationships with departmental heads and other budget holders across the whole organisation. Your role will be to support them with the creation of their budgets and provide data analysis, interpretation and the financial information they need to meet the group’s strategic objectives.

Key Responsibilities include:
• Prepare departmental budgets and discuss with heads of department.
• Meeting regularly with budget holders to discuss results and actions
• Preparation of forecasts with analysis and reporting of variances against budget
• Develop bespoke departmental reporting for key stakeholders
• Implementation of financial analysis across the spectrum of finance including sales, stock, manufacturing, etc.
• Investigate drivers impacting the businesses KPI’s
• Improve performance through analysis of costs and efficiencies
• Provide analytical support to other business functions
• Work with the Financial Control team to deliver meaningful financial data in a timely manner
• Reviewing practices and procedures to promote continuous improvement and efficiency.
• Ad hoc analysis and business case appraisal

The right candidate will have:
• Experience of working ideally in a manufacturing or distribution business
• Detailed knowledge of budgeting and forecasting
• Demonstrable ability to analyse and present complex data
• Commercial acumen with ability to interpret financials into meaningful business outcomes.
• Good communication skills and experience of dealing with stakeholders both in and outside of Finance.
• The ability to drive continuous improvement of processes and procedures.
• Strong excel skills and ideally knowledge of SAGE 200
• Be a confident user of business management and intelligence systems

The position will be based at their modern office and state of the art manufacturing facility. Opportunities like this are rare with this company as they have very little staff turnover, their culture is based on traditional family values where employees are valued and empowered through the provision of training and development opportunities. If you would like to be considered for this fantastic opportunity please get in touch