Finance Business Partner

TN United Kingdom; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Finance Business Partner to join their dynamic Finance Team. In this role, you will be the primary finance partner for a UK manufacturing facility, driving efficiency and supporting expansion initiatives. Your expertise will help guide financial decisions, ensuring robust reporting and analysis. This position offers a collaborative environment where your contributions will directly impact operations and strategic planning. If you are a proactive self-starter with a passion for finance and a desire to make a difference, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Company Car/Allowance

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Birthday off

Employer pension contributions

Employee Assistance Programme

Life assurance up to 6x salary

Qualifications

• Experience in manufacturing or service projects preferred.
• Ability to analyse efficiency and cost recoverability.

Responsibilities

• Support manufacturing facility with analysis and reporting.
• Conduct finance reviews and suggest improvements.
• Collaborate with R&D to prioritise projects.

Skills

SAP 4HANA

Costing and provision calculations

Stock management

Data presentation

Communication skills

Technical and modelling skills

Attention to detail

Influencing others

Self-starter

Team player

Education

Right to live and work in the UK

Full UK Driving licence

Tools

SAP

Excel

Job description

We have an amazing opportunity for a Finance Business Partner to join our Finance Team.

In this role of Senior Finance Business Partner you will be the primary finance partner for UK manufacturing facility in Melsonby (£1m cost base) with potential expansion pipeline, Business Partner for North Region Signs and Signals Operations (£24m turnover) and Business Partner to R&D Department (£2m annual spend) ensuring appropriate levels of capitalisation.

The role is based in Basingstoke with the wider finance team but requires travel to Melsonby, Richmond with 2-3 overnight stay on a quarterly basis.

Key Responsibilities

• Support UK manufacturing facility to analyse efficiency, break even analysis and cost recoverability.
• Analyse how the manufacturing facility drives value and delivers to Operations.
• Support manufacturing expansion pipeline in implementation and execution phase.
• Support manufacturing management team through month end reporting, analysis, budgets, forecasts.
• Be able to analyse and calculate standards costs and labour rates.
• Be able to challenge management in constructive ways and suggest areas for improvement.
• Understand the materials management and support in stock reporting and management.
• Undertake regular finance reviews (reporting packs and analysis) with the management teams and report back to Finance Director and SLT.
• Understand and manage the cost center reporting and cost structure in SAP.
• Suggest key finance KPI’s for manufacturing team and track against them.
• Proactively investigate operational results for the North region and suggest areas for improvement.
• Ensure finance reviews and rigour are in place to monitor operational results across the North region and provide insight to the Finance Director.
• Work with the UK Engineering and R&D team to prioritise projects with commercial value, ensuring value add to the business and monitor capitalisation levels and rationale.
• Support all areas with month end reporting, budgeting and forecasting.

Your Profile

• SAP 4HANA experience preferred.
• Experience of manufacturing and or service and projects preferred.
• Knowledge of stock management, costing and provision calculations.
• Ability to influence others cross functionally.
• Self-starter with proactive mindset.
• Continuous improvement approach.
• Ability to deliver efficiency initiatives and manage own time.
• Ability to prioritise own workload and flexibility to changing demands.
• Team player.
• Intermediate to advance technical and modelling skills.
• Intermediate to advanced excel skills.
• Ability to present data clearly.
• Attention to detail.
• Good communication skills.
• Sound knowledge of key Finance principles.
• SAP (beneficial not mandatory).
• Right to live and Work in the UK.
• Full UK Driving licence.

Your Benefits

As well as providing a competitive salary and benefits package, we actively run employee opinion surveys as part of our drive to provide a comfortable and supportive working environment. We will support your development, and you will also receive:

• Company Car/Allowance.
• 25 days holiday with bank holidays in addition, increasing with length of service.
• Your Birthday off.
• Employer pension contributions.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Life assurance up to 6x salary.