The Role
Reporting to senior finance and operational leadership, you will be responsible for the day-to-day leadership of the finance function (your team is actually based in Romania), ensuring accurate reporting, robust financial control and meaningful operational insight.
You will work closely with manufacturing and operations colleagues to support business planning, forecasting, cost control, investment decisions and profit improvement initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a key member of the Operations Management team, providing financial leadership, insight and challenge.
- Lead monthly financial reporting, including profit and loss, balance sheet performance and operational KPI reporting.
- Prepare monthly operational forecasts, identify variances and provide clear analysis of headwinds, tailwinds and improvement opportunities.
- Maintain and improve standard costing processes, supporting analysis of product, process and operational costs.
- Support baseline profit improvement activity by tracking initiatives, reporting progress and challenging performance.
- Provide financial analysis to support capital investment decisions and business planning.
- Oversee compliance, internal controls, statutory reporting, HMRC requirements, audit activity, cash management, payroll and expenses.
- Lead and develop finance support resources, including transactional processing and overseas finance support.
- Ensure financial processes are disciplined, compliant and aligned with organisational policy and statutory requirements.
About You
You will be a confident, self-starting Finance Manager/Financial Controller with strong operational finance experience, ideally gained in a manufacturing environment.
You will be comfortable working at pace, partnering with operational teams and providing robust financial insight that supports commercial decision-making.
Skills and Experience
- Professional accounting qualification preferred, such as CIMA, ACCA or ACA.
- Minimum of five years finance experience, ideally including manufacturing, operations or engineering-led environments.
- Experience leading or managing a finance function.
- Strong knowledge of management reporting, forecasting, budgeting, standard costing and financial controls.
- Experience in a multinational or multi-site environment would be advantageous.
- Good understanding of lean manufacturing or continuous improvement methodologies would be beneficial.
- Strong analytical capability, clear communication skills and the ability to influence colleagues at all levels.
- A practical, hands-on approach with the confidence to challenge, support and improve operational performance.
Why Apply?
This is an excellent opportunity to take ownership of a key finance leadership role within a complex and international manufacturing setting.
The position offers genuine visibility across operations, finance and senior leadership, with the opportunity to make a difference.