Finance Execution Lead and Forecasting Partner

Dematic; Banbury; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career Development

Competitive Compensation And Benefits

Pay Transparency

Global Opportunities

Job summary

Dematic is seeking an experienced Execution Controlling Lead to partner with operational leaders, drive forecasting, resource planning and commercial insight in a complex, project-driven environment. You will help optimise resource utilisation and provide the financial analysis that informs decisions.

This is a highly visible leadership role where you will shape processes, develop people and advance the evolution of our finance function, including exploring AI-driven improvements.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in finance, FP&A or finance business partnering roles.
• Leadership experience with coaching and developing others.
• Experience in a project-based business environment with project accounting principles.
• Strong forecasting, planning and analytical skills.
• Confidence to challenge stakeholders and influence decisions through data-driven insights.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Curious mindset with a desire to understand the wider business.
• Interest in emerging technologies, automation and AI within finance would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Partner with operational leaders to develop monthly workload and forecast planning, ensuring resource demand and utilisation are accurately reflected.
• Provide meaningful financial insight by analysing business performance, identifying trends, and highlighting risks and opportunities.
• Support budget, forecast and cost centre management, helping stakeholders understand financial performance and key variances.
• Lead workload and headcount analysis, ensuring operational teams have the information they need to make effective resource decisions.
• Deliver monthly performance reporting, scorecards and management presentations for senior leadership reviews.
• Coordinate the annual operating plan and budgeting process.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across reporting, forecasting and finance processes.
• Explore opportunities to leverage technology and AI-driven solutions to improve efficiency, automation and decision making within the finance function.
• Lead, coach and develop a team of two finance professionals, helping them build technical capability and progress their careers.

Skills

Forecasting

Budgeting

Finance partnering

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Cost control

Tools

Excel

BI tools

Job description

Dematic is seeking an experienced Execution Controlling Lead to partner with operational leaders, drive forecasting, resource planning and commercial insight in a complex, project-driven environment. You will help optimise resource utilisation and provide the financial analysis that informs decisions.

This is a highly visible leadership role where you will shape processes, develop people and advance the evolution of our finance function, including exploring AI-driven improvements.