Finance and Business Support Manager

Volvo Trucks; Warwick; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Bank Holidays

Bupa Healthcare

Pension up to 7%

Maternity/Paternity leave

Discounts on purchases

On-site gym

Job summary

Volvo Trucks in Warwick is seeking a Finance and Business Support Manager to lead a small team, oversee financial reporting, forecasting, Order to Delivery, audit activity and wider business support processes. You will report to the Head of UK Power Systems and work with Volvo Penta and Volvo Group to provide insights for decision-making and performance improvements.

You will drive coordination of budgets, monitor spend, and present forecasts to HQ while strengthening financial controls across

Qualifications

• A degree in Finance or Business with strong financial reporting knowledge.
• Experience creating forecasts and analysing KPIs.
• Experience coordinating audits and maintaining internal controls.

Responsibilities

• Own the Order to Delivery process and drive improvements.
• Lead month-end reporting, including income statements and KPI reporting.
• Coordinate budgets and forecasts and present to HQ.
• Analyse profitability and operating expenses to drive performance.
• Manage audits and ensure strong financial controls.
• Lead Front Office Team and oversee contracts and invoicing.

Skills

Financial reporting

Forecasting

Leadership

KPI analysis

Stakeholder management

Education

Finance or Business degree

Job description

Salary: £55,000 with annual company bonus

Location: Warwick, office-based

At Volvo Penta Industrial on land, we power the industries that keep the world moving. From power generation to off-highway applications, our solutions support the machines that drive construction, agriculture, forestry, mining and material handling around the world.

As Finance and Business Support Manager, you will work closely with senior leaders to understand performance, improve processes, strengthen financial control and make sure the business has the information it needs to make effective decisions.

A Mighty Crusher I Volvo Penta Mighty Jobs

We Can Offer You At Volvo Penta

• Holiday Allowance: Start with 25 days plus Bank Holidays, increasing with service, with the option to buy up to 5 additional days.
• Healthcare: Benefit from access to Bupa Cover and Dental insurance.
• Pension scheme: We offer a matched pension scheme of up to 7% of your salary, with incremental benefits based on length of service, including death-in-service cover.
• Maternity and Paternity leave: Maternity leave (6 months full pay, 6 months half pay) and 5 weeks of paternity leave, with 3 weeks flexible to take at any point.
• Discounts on various purchases: Enjoy savings on shopping vouchers, cinema tickets, holidays and travel.
• Fitness perks: MyGymDiscounts and MyActiveDiscounts and on site Gym.

You can learn more about the rewards and benefits of working at Volvo Group here

Volvo Group Employee Benefits

What You Will Do

You will lead a small team while overseeing financial reporting, forecasting, Order to Delivery, audit activity and wider business support processes. Reporting to the Head of UK Power Systems and colleagues across Volvo Penta and the wider Volvo Group, you will bring together financial and operational insight to identify issues during management team meetings.

• Own the Order to Delivery process, identifying deviations and driving improvements
• Lead month-end reporting, including income statements, OPEX and KPI reporting, and monthly credit control meetings.
• Own the Order to Delivery process, ensuring customer requirements are accurately captured and reflected in production and delivery workflows, while escalating deviations.
• Coordinate budgets and forecasts, monitor spend and present forecasts to HQ
• Analyse profitability and operating expenses, identifying actions to improve performance
• Coordinate internal, external and tax audits while maintaining strong financial controls
• Manage the Front Office Team while overseeing contracts, suppliers, invoicing, accruals

Who are you?

You are a commercially minded finance professional who enjoys understanding what is driving business performance and using that insight to improve it. You are confident working with senior stakeholders, comfortable challenging the status quo and able to support and develop colleagues.

You Will Bring

• A degree in Finance, Business or a related discipline, with a strong understanding of financial reporting and financial statement analysis and audit trail.
• Strong commercial awareness, with the ability to interpret financial information and KPIs and turn them into clear recommendations
• An understanding of logistics and customer delivery and how they impact business performance
• The ability to work effectively within a multinational organisation, applying policies and processes across different stakeholders and teams
• Experience coordinating financial audits and internal control testing, with strong organisational and analytical skills
• Line management experience, with the ability to support, motivate and develop team members
• Full UK driving licence

All Volvo Group adverts are open for a minimum of 10 working days from the posting date.

We value your data privacy and therefore do not accept applications via mail.

Who We Are And What We Believe In

We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities.

Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment.

At Volvo Trucks you will be part of leading the way towards a sustainable transport industry. For nearly a century we have been innovating for people – to make life easier, better and safer. Driving progress is our promise to customers, to the industry and to society. At Volvo Trucks we share a curiosity to learn, we work with passion and we embrace change to stay ahead. Join us, together we move the world we want to live in.