Finance Manager - Randstad Delivery (GBS) : Job Details

Job Title: Finance Operations Manager

Location: Coleford, Gloucestershire

Pay rate: Negotiable

Contact Length: 9 months

Overview and Job purpose

Provide financial and analytical business partnering, managing approximately £40m in operational costs and driving efficiencies across £3m of Supply Chain waste. This role is also the key business partner for our Fuel for Growth programme, managing £5m in cost opportunities and collaborating with the wider supply chain organisation. Further duties include updating and inputting month-end close activities, leading operational input into cycle forecasts, Waste/KPI reporting, internal control policy management, and driving transformation activities across Supply Chain finance.

Key Responsibilities

Business Partnering and Reporting

• Provide Finance business partnering support to all teams within Supply Chain, Quality & Engineering (N-1 of Site Leadership team) and deputise for the Senior Finance Manager when required
• Lead the preparation of opex (£40m) forecast updates ensuring all deviations are clearly understood and communicated.
• Supply Chain annual budget preparation with the Senior Finance Manager - leading engagement of supply chain managers in process and building appropriate templates to assist managers in creating and tracking their budgets
• Lead BP for Operation labour, working with Head of Production to ensure accurate tracking of labour usage and spend
• Business partner the Coleford site capability and continuous improvement teams
• Support and identify process improvements to deliver against other Internal Control and JSOX requirements
• Support the SC Finance Director and SBFE central SC finance team in delivering the SBFE BPO projects and transformation
• Identify new opportunities to deliver efficiency and cost saving initiatives for the business and business partner the Fuel for Growth transformation lead helping drive £5-6m of savings annually.

Projects and process improvements

• Critically review all SC Finance monthly processes with an ambition to automate and harmonise processes wherever possible.
• Support the SC Finance Director and SBFE central SC finance team in delivering the SBFE BPO projects and transformation
• Business partner the Coleford site capability and continuous improvement teams and support the FBP in project delivery
• Support and identify process improvements to deliver against Internal Control and JSOX requirements
• Support key fuel for growth projects and provide financial support to project teams to ensure delivery

Primary Interactions

• Senior SC Manager and the Supply Chain finance team
• Commercial finance, FP&A & Financial control teams
• Supply Chain FD
• SBFE SC Finance Central team
• Factory Leadership team and Site Budget owners
• Manufacturing, engineering, quality, planning, logistics and EHS teams

Qualifications and Professional Experience

• Financial acumen - Part/Fully qualified accountant
• Ability to work within cross-functional teams & projects
• Experience in FMCG supply chain business partnering an advantage

Key Competencies and Skills

• Confident & credible in front of Internal & External business partners
• Pro-active cross functional working skills
• Instinctively able to challenge status quo with healthy balance of assertiveness and tact
• Track record of ability to build good working relationships internally and externally
• Track record of effective prioritisation and decision making
• The ability to work independently, with initiative, in a fast moving environment
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills as well as systems and process skills
• Knowledge of SAP and BI

Randstad Business Support is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.