Finance Business Partner

Ultra Electronics Group; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Finance Business Partner, where you'll play a vital role in delivering impactful financial solutions across various functions. This dynamic position is ideal for someone with a strong operational finance background, looking to make a significant impact in a fast-paced environment. You'll collaborate closely with engineering and operational teams, driving financial insights and improvements while fostering strong relationships with stakeholders. With a commitment to employee development and a supportive work culture, this is an exciting opportunity to advance your career in a mission-critical industry.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Life assurance (4x annual salary)

Flexible benefits package

Pension scheme with employer contributions

Sports and social club

Regular team events

Qualifications

• Qualified or near qualified accountant with experience in operational finance.
• Strong relationship-building skills with key stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support finance business partnering across multiple functions.
• Provide financial support to engineering and operational teams.
• Embed key performance metrics into the business.

Skills

Financial Analysis

Communication Skills

Cost Control

Stakeholder Management

Operational Finance

Education

CIMA

ACCA

ACA

Tools

IFS ERP

Job description

time type Full time

posted on Posted Yesterday

job requisition id REQ-10195

We are Ultra Precision Control Systems

Ultra PCS is a leading developer of mission and safety critical equipment in the defence and aerospace industry. Our team of experts are at the heart of our success, which is why we are dedicated to fostering a safe working environment and a positive culture where every staff member feels valued and respected.

We solve our customers' problems, providing engineering solutions to safety and mission critical challenges in the air and on the ground. Our solutions can be found in the latest military aircraft and vehicles, in civil aircraft, and in unmanned vehicles.

We also offer innovative products optimised to support the unique challenges of the dismounted soldier. We help to ensure our customers get to where they need to be safely, achieve their objectives and keep on going back.

Flexible Working

Wherever possible, we will consider a variety of working options to suit your lifestyle, whether that be hybrid home/office working, flexible working and part or full time employment. It's the 'innovating' and 'empowering' values that we ASPIRE to be. We welcome the challenge to work in new ways and have trust in you when getting the job done because we recognise, our business is our people.

Job Description

Ultra Precision Control Systems (PCS) are looking for a Finance Business Partner to join the Finance Function. Reporting to the Financial Planning and Business Partnering Leader, the successful candidate will be a key member of the FPA&A and Business Partnering team. We are looking for someone who is strong dealing with financials, accounting, with excellent communication skills.

The purpose of the role is to support the Financial Planning and Business Partnering Leader in the design and delivery of impactful finance business partnering to all functions, across the PCS UK, PCS US and CEMS businesses. This role will have a sizeable commercial angle to it, with the individual expected to help generate meaningful value within the business. This will incorporate developing a deep understanding of the financial data driving the reporting by ensuring the accuracy of the data and implementing improvements to either the data or the processes driving the data where required.

This role is ideal for someone with experience in operational/manufacturing/engineering accounting who wants a broad, wide-reaching role, requiring both technical expertise and honed communication skills. The preferred candidate will be experienced, able to adapt to change, and someone who enjoys working in a dynamic fast paced environment. This role will suit someone with a strong work ethic and who is looking to make an immediate impact on an exciting robust PE backed company.

Responsibilities:

• Support the Financial Planning and Business Partnering Leader to design and deliver impactful finance business partnering across PCS UK, PCS US and CEMS businesses
• Working as a team driving consistency of approach across all aspects of PCS and CEMS
• Working with Engineering and Operations, providing day to day business partnering support, being a key member of their functional management team, offering finance support and guidance
• Embed key performance metrics into the business, including labour utilisation, efficiency, absorption, standard costs and inventory turns
• Working with the operational teams in the creation of meaningful budgets
• Partner with budget holders to ensure robust cost control to deliver business targets
• Identify opportunities to make improvements to IFS for capture of data, improvement of processes, creation of robust master data etc
• Provide ad hoc analysis and project support as required

Candidate:

• A qualified or near qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA or ACA) is highly desirable
• The desired candidate will have experience within an operational/manufacturing/engineering finance team having previously held similar positions
• Able to quickly build strong relationships with key stakeholders
• Well-developed understanding of the Engineering and Operational functional environments including teams such as Supply Chain, Stores, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality etc
• Able to create high quality and commercially meaningful outputs, including robust audit trail, process notes etc

• Knowledge of Integrated ERPs, specifically IFS (desirable)
• Experience within a Defence or Aerospace environment (desirable)

Benefits:

Every employee is critical to our success and as such we offer a range of flexible employee benefits along with career development opportunities.

• Flexible working within core working hours
• 25 days holiday (185 hrs) with the option to buy/sell 5 days (37 hrs) plus bank holidays
• 4 times your annual salary in life assurance
• Flexible benefits package
• Pension Scheme - Less than 5 years' service up to 5.5% employer contributions, 5 years' service + up to 7.5% employer contributions.
• Sports and Social club
• Supportive and friendly working environment with regular team events

You couldn’t be joining the team and Ultra at a more exciting time. Therefore if this sounds of interest, please follow the application process

Nationality Requirements

Candidates must be able to work in the UK without restrictions in accordance with UK National Law and be prepared to successfully undertake an appropriate level of UK National Security Vetting according to UK Government National Security Vetting criteria.

Diverse & Inclusive Employer

Ultra PCS is an equal opportunities employer that values diversity, inclusion, equity and equality. Underpinned by our values, behaviours, and policies, we want you to feel empowered to be your best and authentic self.

We promote a workplace that welcomes people from all backgrounds and cultures; believing that this will increase our diversity of thinking, and ultimately ensure we continue delivering on our commitments to our customers.

We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status and welcome applications from all candidates.

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