Business Partner
- Recruiter
- SF Recruitment Limited t/a SF Group
- Location
- Birmingham
- Salary
- GBP30000 - 35000 per year
- Posted
- 19 Feb 2019
- Closes
- 26 Feb 2019
- Ref
- JJS99056609
- Contact
- Jessica Suffolk
- Job Title
- Part Qualified
- Category
- Accountancy Practice
- Experience Levels
- Part Qualified
- Contract Type
- Contract
- Hours
- Full Time
My client is looking for a Business Partner to effectively support the Commercial Finance Manager with operational insight into consistent reporting and operational action identification & coordination on transport, Supply chain and stock to help improve company profitability.
Responsibilities:
- Support in the strategy development and subsequent business delivery.
- Follow up Supply Chain financials and drive financial support for monthly control of SC and planning for future, this includes Transportation costs, logistics/delivery expenses and stock
management
- Develop and produce weekly/monthly consistent reporting on these initiatives across the regions, to assess the profitability of each one and to input into the improvement of each one as required
to increase company profitability.
- Support in continuously identifying performance improvement initiatives and the development, implementation and monitoring of these plans
- Help resolve reporting issues and where necessary provide guidance on corrective operational actions
- Follow up the actions identified
- Day to day support on administration and other requirements (Capex, etc.)
- Actively support the commercial finance team during the budget and forecast process, monitor actively the KPIs across the regions
- Proactively tackle ad hoc company-wide projects / tasks which are allocated from time-to-time
- Communicate effectively with all other departments in order to articulate operational finance imperatives
Systems experience
- Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables/vlookups etc) and competent user of other Microsoft Office packages including Access
- Cognos and Magnitude (Cartesis) experience desirable
- Experience of using an ERP system e.g. M3 or MOVEX desirable
If you have the relevant experience and can commit to a 12 month fixed term contract please get in touch!