Financial Business Controller
Posted 1 week ago by Line Up Aviation
£29 Per hour
Inside
Onsite
Broughton, Flintshire
Summary: The Logistics Business Controller will lead financial planning and forecasting efforts for the company, ensuring alignment with overall financial strategies. This role involves analyzing financial performance, identifying risks and opportunities, and providing actionable insights to support decision-making. The position is fully onsite in Broughton, Flintshire, and requires BPSS clearance before starting. The contract is set to last until December 31, 2026, with an hourly rate of £29 via Umbrella, classified as inside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the preparation of financial planning and accurate forecasts.
- Provide guidance in line with the overall company financial situation and challenge business requests.
- Set and maintain multi-year financial targets.
- Develop and run financial models, simulations, and business cases to support decision-making.
- Anticipate financial risks and opportunities and advise on mitigation strategies.
- Produce accurate financial reporting and assess actual financial performance.
- Analyze cost base, revenues, and identify actionable drivers for optimization.
- Compute hourly rates and support resource review and headcount targets definition.
- Approve shopping carts and audit POs below approval thresholds.
- Trigger costs rebooking and transfers when needed.
Key Skills:
- Experience improving processes within the business area.
- Understanding of financial reporting processes.
- Knowledge of governance.
- Experience in a similar position.
Salary (Rate): £29.00/hour
City: Broughton
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Our client has an opportunity for a Logistics Business Controller to join them on a contract basis. You will be leading the preparation of the financial planning, prepare accurate forecasts, provide guidance in line with the overall company financial situation, and challenge business requests.
Role: Logistics Business Controller
Location: Broughton, Flintshire - fully onsite
Hours: 35 hours per week
Clearance: BPSS required before starting
Hourly Rate: £29 per hour via Umbrella, inside IR35
Contract Length: Until 31/12/2026
What you'll be doing:
- Plan & challenge
- Understand the business operational environment (strategy, governance, challenges, constraints).
- Lead the preparation of the financial planning, prepare accurate forecasts, provide guidance in line with the overall company financial situation, and challenge business requests.
- Set & maintain multi-years financial targets.
- Develop and run financial models, simulations, scenarios, business cases (on projects, M&A, call for tenders…) to support decision making and provide a comprehensive view on the financial implications of business decisions.
- Anticipate financial risks & opportunities and advise on mitigation strategies.
- Analyse & advise
- Produce accurate financial reporting, at the appropriate level of granularity.
- Assess the actual financial performance, analyse deviations and advise on corrective actions.
- Analyse cost base, revenues, unit costs (Airframe / Engine), R&D…
- Identify actionable drivers for optimization and competitiveness initiatives, monitor materialization of savings.
- Anticipate financial risks and advise on mitigation strategies.
- Anticipate financial opportunities.
- Support execution & ensure data quality
- Compute Hourly Rate, support on Resource review & Headcount targets definition, prepare Chargeback & Cost reallocation models.
- Approve shopping carts, audit POs below approval thresholds (sampling approach), review commitments & accruals.
- Trigger costs rebooking & costs transfer when needed.
Requirements:
- Experience improving processes within the business area
- Understanding of financial reporting processes
- Understanding on governance
- Experience within a similar position
If you are interested in applying for this position and you meet the requirements, please immediately!
Line Up Aviation has carved its own place in the recruitment of Aviation and Aerospace personnel all over the world for more than 30 years. We work with some of the industry's best-known companies who demand the highest standard of applicants. "Follow @LineUpAviation on Twitter for all of our latest vacancies, news and pictures from our busy UK Head Office. Interact with us using the #LineUpAviation tag at anytime! Thank you for your follow!"