Finance Business Partner - Manufacturing
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- Knutsford, Cheshire
- £50,000-58,500 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Oversee standard costing and inventory management to support strategic and operational decision making within the business.
- Responsible for reviewing, understanding, challenging and explaining all manufacturing cost variances on a regular basis.
- Raise and promote finance into the wider business by providing finance business partnering and control.
- Support to a variety of stakeholders to deliver improvements in all aspects of site performance.
- Communicate with all levels across the business, acting as a translator or interface between finance, commercial and operations.
- Develop, implement, and maintain accurate standard costing model for manufacturing operations and provide margin analysis.
- Review quality, demand, and obsolescent and aged stock provision, challenging large values and any significant movements.
- Provide regular reporting on stock management and stockholding.
- Liaise with and develop the financial awareness of both commercial and operational managers within the business, to understand variances and margins.
- Monitor and analyse manufacturing costs and associated variance analysis.
- Complete associated month end processes to strict deadlines.
- Actively influence day to day decisions, shaping the strategy and direction of the business.
- Conduct data analysis using the company's ERP system and linked BI system providing meaningful reports to guide business focus.
- Work closely with the manufacturing managers to ensure they understand the impact their actions have to the company's profitability and cashflow.
- Must have experience within a Finance Business Partner role or similar, such as a Financial Controller, Cost Accountant or Management Accountant within a manufacturing environment, with exposure to standard cost remodelling.
- Professional qualification such as CIMA / ACCA is highly desirable but not essential.
- Thorough understanding of standard costing, BOM's, inventory management and manufacturing processes.
- Skilled in accounting software, data analysis and integrated ERP systems.
- Advanced excel skills and the ability to perform data analysis.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate and challenge effectively with cross-functional teams and non-finance personnel.