Finance Business Partner

Devonshire; Devon and Torbay; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Additional benefits

Job summary

A leading customer communications company in the United Kingdom is seeking a Finance Business Partner to enhance financial performance and decision-making. This high-impact role involves close collaboration with operational teams, delivering financial insight, and driving cost management initiatives. The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant with 5-10 years' experience in financial analysis, particularly within manufacturing. This position offers a salary of £60-65K, including car allowance, and supports hybrid working with some travel to Ireland.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years’ experience in finance, ideally within manufacturing or industrial environments.
• Strong background in cost accounting and performance analysis.
• Confident with advanced Excel modelling.

Responsibilities

• Partner with operational leaders for decision-making and investment proposals.
• Deliver timely reporting and analyze key financial KPIs.
• Drive cost-reduction initiatives and improve processes.

Skills

Cost accounting

Operational finance

Performance analysis

ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle)

Advanced Excel modelling

Education

Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA or equivalent)

Job description

At Paragon Customer Communications, we deliver critical communications that connect organisations with their customers. Behind that delivery is a high-performing operational engine — and we’re now looking for a Finance Business Partner to help drive performance, profitability, and smarter decision-making across our production and supply chain environment.

This is a high-impact role for a commercially minded finance professional who enjoys being close to operations, influencing strategy, and turning data into action.

The Role

As Finance Business Partner, you’ll act as a trusted advisor to our operational leadership team. Your focus will be on improving financial performance through insightful analysis, rigorous cost control, and strong business partnering.

You’ll ensure financial discipline in key decisions, support continuous improvement initiatives, and help optimise processes across manufacturing and supply chain functions.

What You’ll Be Doing

Business Partnering & Strategy

• Partner closely with operational leaders to support strategic and day-to-day decision-making
• Translate operational performance into clear financial insight
• Evaluate and challenge investment proposals, CAPEX, and cost-saving initiatives
• Lead planning, budgeting and forecasting in partnership with FP&A
• Monitor and interpret key KPIs including production variances, material usage, labour efficiency and overhead absorption

Cost Management & Analysis

• Drive cost-reduction initiatives and identify efficiency opportunities
• Support waste reduction and continuous improvement programmes

Reporting & Insight

• Deliver timely, accurate reporting, dashboards and senior-level insights
• Highlight trends, risks and opportunities impacting performance
• Provide insight and challenge through month-end and ongoing financial reviews

Projects & Governance

• Act as finance lead on operational projects, investments and process improvements
• Build financial models and business cases for CAPEX
• Ensure compliance with controls, accounting standards and audit requirements

About You

• Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA or equivalent)
• 5–10 years’ experience in finance, ideally within manufacturing or industrial environments
• Strong background in cost accounting, operational finance and performance analysis
• Confident working with ERP systems (e.g. SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards) and advanced Excel modelling
• Experienced working cross-functionally with operations and senior stakeholders

What Sets You Apart

• Strong commercial and operational acumen
• Able to translate finance into meaningful, practical insight
• Analytical, hands-on and solutions-focused
• Confident challenging constructively and influencing decisions
• Proactive self-starter with a continuous improvement mindset

This is a hybrid role - 3 days at home 2 days in office with some potential travel to Ireland.

Salary £60-65K plus car allowance and additional benefits

Devonshire is an equal-opportunity employer, and we encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of gender, race, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status.

We recognise how challenging this current job market is for candidates, and Paragon Talent Solutions are therefore striving to provide the best candidate experience we can.

If you are interested in this opportunity, we kindly request that you apply via this LinkedIn advert, as opposed to sending us an email or LinkedIn direct message.

We are eager to ensure that each candidate application is considered fairly, and receives a consistent experience. Unfortunately, we cannot ensure this standard if you enquire about a role via email or LinkedIn message, as it falls outside of our established process