Procurement Finance Manager
Posted Today by Matchtech
£400 Per day
Undetermined
Undetermined
City of London, London
Summary: The Procurement Finance Manager role is a 6-month contract based in Central London, focusing on business partnering with Procurement and Operations teams to provide financial insights and support strategic decision-making. The position involves managing pricing, forecasting, cost management, and performance tracking across global procurement activities. The successful candidate will report to the Procurement Finance Controller and play a key role in driving efficiencies within a fast-paced, global organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Business partnering with global procurement teams, providing financial insight to support commercial negotiations and decision-making
- Updating and managing pricing estimates, working closely with category managers and regional finance teams to ensure accurate P&L reflection
- Collaborating with product costing teams and manufacturing sites to improve forecasting processes, pricing data accuracy, and automation
- Supporting savings initiatives, including coordinating workshops and tracking delivery against targets
- Leading finance input into process automation and digitalisation of insights
- Managing and reporting on procurement financial KPIs, including savings and cash delivery (DPO)
- Acting as custodian of the savings tracking tool, producing monthly reports and maintaining governance
- Supporting preparation of updates for senior leadership and productivity committees, including commodities pricing outlooks
- Monitoring and analysing overhead budgets, ensuring accurate allocation and reporting
- Supporting risk mitigation reporting in collaboration with operations stakeholders
Key Skills:
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA / CA)
- Minimum of 4 years' post-qualification experience within a global FMCG, manufacturing, electronics, or similarly complex environment
- Strong background in operations finance, supply chain finance, product costing, or commercial finance
- Solid understanding of IFRS and experience working with SAP and/or BPC
- Proven experience partnering with non-finance stakeholders at a senior level
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to simplify and clearly communicate complex financial information
- Commercially astute, proactive, and comfortable operating in a fast-changing environment
- Confident decision-maker with a collaborative and consultative approach
Salary (Rate): £400/day
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Procurement Finance Manager
Central London
6 month contract - January start
£300 - £450 p/d
We are recruiting for a Procurement Finance Manager to join a high-performing Commercial Finance Operations team within a fast-paced, global organisation. This is a key business partnering role, working closely with Procurement and Operations teams to provide financial insight, drive efficiencies, and support strategic decision-making. Reporting into the Procurement Finance Controller, you will play a central role in pricing, forecasting, cost management, and performance tracking across global procurement activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Business partnering with global procurement teams, providing financial insight to support commercial negotiations and decision-making
- Updating and managing pricing estimates, working closely with category managers and regional finance teams to ensure accurate P&L reflection
- Collaborating with product costing teams and manufacturing sites to improve forecasting processes, pricing data accuracy, and automation
- Supporting savings initiatives, including coordinating workshops and tracking delivery against targets
- Leading finance input into process automation and digitalisation of insights
- Managing and reporting on procurement financial KPIs, including savings and cash delivery (DPO)
- Acting as custodian of the savings tracking tool, producing monthly reports and maintaining governance
- Supporting preparation of updates for senior leadership and productivity committees, including commodities pricing outlooks
- Monitoring and analysing overhead budgets, ensuring accurate allocation and reporting
- Supporting risk mitigation reporting in collaboration with operations stakeholders
Skills & Experience Required
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA / CA)
- Minimum of 4 years' post-qualification experience within a global FMCG, manufacturing, electronics, or similarly complex environment
- Strong background in operations finance, supply chain finance, product costing, or commercial finance
- Solid understanding of IFRS and experience working with SAP and/or BPC
- Proven experience partnering with non-finance stakeholders at a senior level
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to simplify and clearly communicate complex financial information
- Commercially astute, proactive, and comfortable operating in a fast-changing environment
- Confident decision-maker with a collaborative and consultative approach