Operations Accountant

A great opportunity to join a leading household name on a maternity cover contract where you will be business partner to the site team with ownership for the management reporting and to ensure the strategy is delivered.

Key responsibilities include but are not exclusive to:

FP&A

• Preparation of the monthly management reporting,
• Budget & forecast monthly and annually
• KPI reporting
• Provide Capex analysis and decision support to the site General/Factory Manager and submit Capex proposals in the Capital system for approval by Senior Management.
• To manage the capital planning process for site, ensuring that spend plans are in line with approved forecast

• Ensure all site costings are accurate and signed off in a timely manner.
• Regular review of product margin analysis ensuring optimisation of product portfolio

Business partnering,

• You will take a lead role in target setting and performance management to deliver business objectives
• Pro-actively use information generated to challenge and influence local management
• Challenging investment decisions to maximise ROI
• Influence and coordinate the development of the strategic business plansOperations & Continuous Improvement

• Streamline the processes for information delivery
• Promote and embrace a culture of continuous improvementTeam Development & Leadership

• Lead the site finance function with clearly defined and standardised roles and objectives
• Ensure finance assistant is coached and developed to maximise their potential
• Ensure engagement with other operational and commercial finance teams
• Promote involvement of team members (Spurway and Noon) in cross-functional activity
• FMCG experience is a pre requisite for this role and manufacturing is highly desirable, it is an opportunity where you will be able to work closely with the business and influence the decision making process, you must be an effective confident communicator . We are looking for a start late September or earlier.