Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner

Based: Knutsford

Salary: up to £50k dependent on experience. Excellent opportunity in a new role within a progressive business

Our client is a leading food manufacturing business based in Knutsford. Established over 150 years ago, they have experienced organic growth over the last decade with a group turnover of around £100m. This is a newly created role within Finance for a strong Commercial Finance Manager to join the team. We are looking for a confident Accountant who is able to business partner with stakeholders at all levels, challenge results and work with all business departments to provide an analytical overview of finance.

Role:

• Manage business forecasting, reporting and budget process - analysing sales and providing insight into historic and future sales performance
• Line management of 1 staff member, regular appraisals and development
• Challenging sales forecast, translating to overall P&L and balance sheet forecast, working with commercial/operations/finance to produce rolling 12 month and 3 year forecast
• Working closely with commercial and operations team on production and stock planning
• Financial forecasting for external stakeholders, providing strong MI to drive working capital
• Analysis and evaluation of sales data for market, customer and SKU level (promotional activity, economic situation)
• Daily, weekly and monthly reporting with analytical commentary on margin, customer, SKU, turnover and stock analysis
• Actively monitoring customer and SKU performance, highlighting risk and anomalies to the commercial teams
• Working with the sales team to project future sales in line with monthly/quarterly reforecast
• Working with commercial and operations to develop a manufacturing plan for factory efficiency and minimising working capital requirements, ensuring integrity for BOM structure

Experience:

• Qualified Accountant OR QBE with extensive commercial experience
• Advanced Excel skills essential
• Independent worker who is confident in their ability to challenge senior stakeholders
• Analytical & commercially driven
• Ability to work in a fast paced, ever changing environment

Please send your CV for immediate consideration!