Finance Business Partner

Our Client seeks a Finance Business Partner to join the business on a 6-month temporary assignment. The Finance Business Partner provides financial insight and analytical support across the supply chain sites. The position plays a key role within the Finance team and in supporting site General Managers in ensuring operational management is aligned to financial targets and performance. FMCG supply chain finance is preferred. The Finance Business Partner is responsible for delivering site budgets/forecasts, accurate variance analysis, maintaining robust financial models, and preparing high-quality reports for senior management. The ability to build strong working relationships with operational teams is key. An individual who can be proactive and adopts a continuous improvement mindset that can identify and/or enable the implementation of new initiatives that drive efficiency and cost benefits. Supply chain operations experience is essential for this role.

Duties of the Finance Business Partner include:

• Responsible for accurate and timely sites budget/forecast models, providing insightful variance analysis and enables informed commercial decision-making with key stakeholders.
• Analyse and understand movements in site(s) P&L lines for Budget vs Prior Year and Forecasts vs Budget, which will feed into presentations for Senior Management.
• Preparation of periodic reporting pack for Senior Management, including variance analysis at site level.
• Preparation/posting of journals.
• Seek to continuously improve the processes, engaging broader finance/stakeholders on improvements, greater automation of reporting where possible to enable greater time lent to deeper analysis and insights.
• Analysing performance of BAU maintenance capex versus Budget/Forecast on a periodic basis.
• Assisting in the financial modelling of specific ad hoc projects (typically larger/one-off projects) and return on investment assessments, for presentation to Investment Committee/Board for approval.
• Detailed check and ongoing management of approved specific ad hoc projects (typically larger one-off projects) and completing post implementation reviews.
• Liaising with Financial Control in regard to cashflow budget/forecasting and periodic variance analysis.
• Calculation, monitoring and analysing sites Key Performance Indicators and confidently articulating the drivers behind variances.
• Support the Finance Manager in working with the leadership team looking at preparing new initiatives that drive efficiency, cost savings, and continuous improvement across the function.
• Calculation, monitoring and confirming delivery of continuous improvement projects.
• Assist where requested/relevant in provision of information that contributes to our Group Sustainability and legislative reporting requirements.
• Ad hoc projects.

Requirements for the Finance Business Partner include:

• Strong technical, analytical, and modelling skills, high competence of excel/PowerPoint or equivalent.
• Qualified CIMA/ACCA/ACA.
• Supply chain operations experience.
• Great communicator with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Strong presentation skills, ability to manage to deadlines and multiple stakeholders.
• Demonstrates the ability to create true finance business partnering relationships, with collaboratively working to deliver short and long-term business goals.
• High level of attention to detail and accuracy working with large data sets.
• Able to navigate through complex issues and manage uncertainty.
• Comfortable working across multiple levels of an organisation.
• Enjoys working in high pace and challenging environments.
• Proactive approach to working.