Job Description

In this role you will provide our Customer Operations Leadership and Divisional Finance Teams with high quality financial and management information to improve the decision-making processes. You will be able to demonstrate your incredible management accounting and reporting skills, have a strong commercial- minded approach to business and adept at presenting financial information to a wide and varied stakeholder base.

You will also need to be confident and outgoing, relish the opportunity to working as a trusted financial advisor to budget holders and be able to tailor your delivery accordingly. Excellent MS Excel skills are a must. Experience of PowerBI, TM1 and SAP are a definitely bonus but not essential.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Preparation of the monthly results packs issued to senior finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Coordination of monthly Customer Operations results and forecast submissions.
• Production and analysis of Customer Operations monthly consolidated data packs for the operations group.
• Evaluation of aspects of the business’ manufacturing and assembly operations to monitor and drive performance and identify focus areas.
• Supporting financial planning process for all quarterly, annual, and strategic financial plans (including defining targets) and analysis of submissions.
• Preparation of presentation slides outlining the key messages of our financial plans.
• Preparation and analysis of the weekly Customer Operations order and sales report.
• Procurement support and analysis of monthly savings.
• Inventory analysis to support Supply Chain.
• Review of key project orders to identify potential future impact to Customer Operations.
• Ad-hoc analysis and projects to support strategic decision making of the business.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA), part qualified or QBE with a grounded experience of commercial accounting.
• Ability to own the implementation of new ways of working and lead change.
• Confidence in challenging senior partners and, holding partners accountable for action plan delivery.
• Influencing and leadership skills: grounded experience of building, developing, and sustaining relationships with key partners at all levels.
• Structured and logical problem solver; ability to communicate effectively at all levels, written and verbal.
• Self-starter who possesses the ability and drive to operate independently; high energy level, intellectual curiosity, and strong work ethic with a commitment to continuous improvement in a dynamic and changing environment.