Factory Finance Partner: Costing & Margin

The Oval Partnership; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The Oval Partnership are currently supporting a European manufacturing group to recruit an Operations Finance Manager to take end-to-end financial ownership of their UK factory site in the Peterborough area. In this critical role you will act as the Finance Business Partner to the Plant Manager and site leadership, translating operational metrics into financial strategy and driving cost-saving initiatives.

You will lead budgeting, forecasting and month-end close, perform costings and variance

Qualifications

• Experience: Factory / costings or operations finance experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Costing expertise: standard costing, manufacturing variance analysis, inventory accounting, cost centre management.
• Systems & analytics: strong Excel and experience with ERP environments (Infor M3, SAP, Oracle).
• Business partnering: ability to build credibility with non-finance stakeholders and challenge decisions.
• Education: Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or Industrial Engineering; professional qualification desirable.
• Right to Work: UK indefinite eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Operations Business Partnering with Plant Manager and operational heads to improve site margins and cost management.
• Product Costing & Standard Costing: maintain standard costs, BOMs, routings, labour rates, overhead allocations.
• Variance & Performance Analysis: analyse costs, volumes, productivity, yield, scrap, OEE, labour efficiency.
• Inventory & Working Capital Oversight: governance across stock control and cycle counts.
• Controlling & Month-End Closing: oversee closing, journals, accruals, variances, reconciliations.
• Cost Reduction & Continuous Improvement: lead lean projects to track cost-saving benefits.
• Budgeting, Forecasting & Decision Support: lead Budgets/forecasts and evaluate CapEx ROI.

Skills

Factory/costing experience

Costing analysis

Budgeting & forecasting

Stakeholder partnering

Education

Degree in Finance/Accounting/Economics/Industrial Engineering

CIMA/ACCA/ACA or equivalent desirable

Tools

Excel

Infor M3

SAP

Oracle ERP

Job description

The Oval Partnership are currently supporting a European manufacturing group to recruit an Operations Finance Manager to take end-to-end financial ownership of their UK factory site in the Peterborough area. In this critical role you will act as the Finance Business Partner to the Plant Manager and site leadership, translating operational metrics into financial strategy and driving cost-saving initiatives.

You will lead budgeting, forecasting and month-end close, perform costings and variance