European Operations Finance Manager

European Operations Finance Manager

12 month Fixed Term Contract

High Wycombe

£60,000 + bens

About the Role:

Based in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, my client, a dynamic and progressive business looking for a qualified accountant to join their team as an Operations Finance Manager for a 12 month Fixed term contract.

The company has gone from strength to strength and has an excellent position in their market with a varied product portfolio and a strong pipeline for the future. The European Operations Finance Manager will business partner with the European Finance and Supply Chain Distribution teams, ensuring accurate reporting of costs and analysing warehousing & supply chain activities, identifying trends and outcomes for actions to be taken to drive desired results.

Main responsibilities of the European Operations Finance Manager

• Supporting the European Supply Chain Director and Operations Finance Team.
• Supporting the product costing process, distribution & transportation spend analysis, inventory management, internal controls and financial reporting.
• Analysing COGS and Distribution and Transportation costs to ensure they are complete and correct before GL close.

• Prepare monthly European Distribution and Transportation (D&T) spend and variances reporting.
• Work in partnership with Facilities and Operations teams to support actual and budget capital expenditure review, reporting and analysis.
• Support the Annual Budget and Forecasting process for Operations focused areas such as distribution & warehousing, freight etc.
• Reviewing the inventory month end file prepared by Logistics and verifying significant items as required.
• Lead annual Inventory counts from a Finance perspective including preparation and reconciliation activities.
• Perform monthly reconciliation of inventory for all European Distribution Centers
• Ensure Company policies with respect to inventories, COGS and distribution expenses are documented and applied consistently across the entire company
• Prepare and analyse Purchase Price Variances, including recommendations to effectively manage the PPV differences.
• Testing and validating changes to standard costing and COGS account assignment.
• Lead bi-annual D&T analysis by market for total Europe ensuring transparency between GL and operational data to be presented by Supply Chain team.
• Work with Supply Chain teams to investigate and implement cost savings opportunities in cost-to-serve.
• Coordinate with Supply Chain in further developing Variable Warehousing Cost-to-serve tools.
• Assist in analysing the performance and identifying cost savings / optimization opportunities for plant manufacturing.
• Business partnering with Supply Chain/Logistics/Warehousing, Procurement/Sourcing, Sales, Order Management and Facilities teams.

The Ideal candidate for the European Operations Finance Manager:

• Qualified accountant with post-qualified business partnering experience ideally in FMCG supporting supply chain.
• Strong IT skills with advanced Excel and a good working knowledge of SAP are essential, Access / Power BI / Business Intelligence experience would be a distinct advantage.
• Developed communication (verbal & written) skills with the ability to influence and challenge at all levels across the business.
• Detail-oriented, with excellent analytical and organizational skills.
• Self-starter who thrives in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, with the ability to learn and develop new skills
• Can adapt to new challenges and ways of working.

Apply now:

If you are interested in this European Operations Finance Manager, then please apply now for immediate consideration!