Interim Finance Business Partner - Manufacturing
North Yorkshire
Temp to Perm
£250-£300 per day
Join this leading manufacturing business in North Yorkshire in their Finance team where you will influence positive business change with a focus on efficiency and driving costs out of the business. You will be responsible for the operational reporting and analysis including wastage analysis, stock variances & labour cost analysis. The business would like someone to start immediately and could go permanent for the right candidate.
Responsibilities:
- Clear and robust financial planning, and insightful reporting, providing a detailed understanding of business performance
- Provide timely and accurate financial analysis of performance
- Provide analysis of trends, and identify performance issues
- Provide fully explained of variance to Plan with concise commentary
- Align financial performance to Operational KPIs
- Complete financial evaluations/ costings of operational initiatives - ensuring robust measures are in place to report against for future post completion reviews
- Develop ways to improve transparency of numbers reported
- Build relationships between Finance and other areas of the business to identify areas where decision making can be effectively improved
- Cost control reviews with site management for materials and overheads expenditure.
- Keep the company systems up to date with product updates, new product launches, product costs, Labour and Overheads rates.
- Financial Control and Asset Management - Ensuring adequate controls are in place for the management of factory assets
- Budgeting and forecasting and accurate measurement of subsequent performance
- Scenario costing
- Wastage analysis and stock take reviews, reconciliation / creditor recs
- Labour Utilisation, reconciliation, resource management reporting - departmental analysis
- Maximising company assets through capacity & resource planning
- Produce Investment Appraisals and conduct post implementation reviews
- Capex etc costing and evaluations - holding stakeholders to account.
Skills & Experience required:
- Ideally qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA or ACCA) with PQE
- Ideally you will have experience of working within Manufacturing, Food or FMCG businesses, although this is not essential
- Be able to demonstrate operation finance experience in a similar role
- Needs someone who is used to working in a fast paced environment.