Interim Finance Business Partner

Marks Sattin are delighted to be working in partnership with this true market leader to help with the search of a new Finance Business Partner for a European manufacturing business. This role has arisen due to an internal restructure and will initially be a 3-4 month contract but likely to be extended beyond this for the right person

This role incorporates a true blend of technical & commercial skills. You will be responsible for the timely and accurate preparation of management information for presentation to the Leadership team, along with the Quarterly Rolling Forecast. It is important that you are able to support the Finance Ops Director and provide commercial support on various projects.

We are looking for someone who has a passion for driving change that enables the business to take corrective actions to continuously improve financial performance.

• Working closely with the Head of Operations, Sales and Marketing to support core business projects
• Understanding system change requirements & financial implications of key projects
• Providing regular BAU reports of operational and financial performance
• Constructively challenging to the Head of Operations and their staff
• Proactively providing financial, systems & analytical support to operational teams
• Contributing to the budget process ensuring continual development of accuracy & efficiency
• Identifying ways the department can improve their effectiveness and efficiency
• Project manage operational projects designed to improve cost and efficiency

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate strong leadership ability and an excellent track record of success within a FP&A/commercial finance type role in industry. Ideally the candidate will have a good degree of creativity and be able to bring suggestions to the table on commercial value add, revenue generating/saving ideas & cost transformation/improvement.