Marks Sattin are currently working with a Owner Managed manufacturing business to support them in the recruitment of a Finance Business Partner. In this role you'll drive effective planning, insightful management reporting and profit improvements with non-financial stakeholders across the business within one of the cost centres.

Responsibilities;

• Building and maintaining close working relations with key stakeholders to support and challenge performance.
• Developing and delivering comprehensive and insightful weekly and monthly financial reporting to support the objectives of the functions, highlighting risks or opportunities, and working with stakeholders to take corrective action
• Delivering regular updates and presentations to give a meaningful understanding of the results for your area, leading the discussion and challenging the results to drive improvements
• Providing assessments of business cases and strategic opportunities to support and influence decision making
• Leading and supporting the planning process to improve the accuracy of budgets / forecasts
• Challenging submitted plans to ensure they are realistic, accurate and challenging keeping an eye of costs/capex spends etc
• Supporting the weekly/month-end accounting processes for your area to ensure accurate reporting of the financial performance

Skills;

• Hold a full professional accounting qualification such as CIMA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent
• You'll have some finance experience (pre and post qualification) and will be no stranger to budgetary control, profit & loss accounts and financial reporting
• Experience of supporting, challenging and influencing non-finance stakeholders in a fast-paced environment across all levels of seniority
• Naturally you'll be very numerate and analytical, with commercial acumen to evaluate business plans as well as the charisma needed to influence often conflicting ideas
• Good communicator and strong inter-personal skills, able to communicate effectively to all levels within an organisation

If you feel you match the above skills, please apply now.