Finance Manager

Job Specification

Job Title: Operations Finance Manager

Job Location: Gloucestershire

Overview and Job purpose

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our clients finance team as Operations Finance Manager. This new role will play a key part in supporting the delivery of our key strategic priorities as well as the continued improvements to our systems & processes.     

Key Responsibilities, scope for decision making, KPI’s

• Provide business partnering support to the manufacturing managers and their teams
• Lead the annual strat plan & budget setting processes for the supply chain departments
• Identify new opportunities to deliver efficiency and cost saving initiatives for the business
• Delivering systems and processes improvement projects in line with key milestones
• Manage the factory operational budget(£47m) and support budget holders to deliver savings
• Work with the supply chain finance team to reconcile cost of goods at month end and deliver actionable insights to the supply chain teams
• Set the standard costs for all SKUs on an annual basis and deliver costings for NPD
• Manage three team members and ensure robust development plans are in place

Primary Interactions

• Supply chain finance director and the supply chain finance team
• Factory director and the factory leadership team
• Manufacturing, engineering, quality, planning, logistics and EHS teams
• Commercial finance & financial control teams

Qualifications and Professional Experience

• Financial acumen - qualified accountant with a proven track record
• Expertise in working within cross-functional team & projects
• Expertise in FMCG supply chain business partnering an advantage

Key Competencies and Skills

• Strong leadership and influencing skills
• Confident & credible in front of senior management
• Instinctively able to challenge status quo with healthy balance of assertiveness and tact
• Track record of ability to build good working relationships internally and externally
• High intellectual capacity that can deal with strategic issues as well as operational challenges
• High level of resilience under pressure
• Track record of effective prioritisation and decision making
• The ability to work independently, with initiative, in a fast moving environment
• Knowledge of SAP an advantage