Finance Manager

Location: On-site, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, with approximately one visit per month to secondary site
Salary: £60,000 to £65,000

You will run the month end close and the board pack, but the weight of the role sits in operational finance: the standard costing model, production variances, stock accuracy, plant and customer profitability, and the budget and forecast that sit on top of it all. You will report to the Group Finance Director and work daily with production, procurement and supply chain.

Ownership

Financial control

• Run the month end close and produce management accounts and board reporting packs.
• Review balance sheet reconciliations and maintain the control environment.
• Lead the external audit and manage the relationships.

Operational finance and costing

• Own the standard costing model and keep it accurate as processes and material mix change.
• Analyse production variances, yield, contamination and machine efficiency, and take the findings back to the plant teams.
• Quantify production losses and identify recovery.
• Support continuous improvement with the numbers to prioritise it.

Inventory

• Lead weekly and monthly stock reconciliations across both sites.
• Coordinate cycle counts and the annual stocktake.
• Review inventory valuation, ageing and slow moving stock.

Commercial analysis

• Analyse customer, product and plant profitability.
• Track raw material and recyclate price movement and its effect on contribution margin.
• Support pricing decisions with margin analysis.

Planning

• Run the annual budget and the rolling forecast.
• Produce weekly and monthly operational forecasts.
• Model scenarios for capital, capacity and pricing decisions.

Essential

• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified.

• Inventory accounting in a physical production environment.
• Budgeting and forecasting ownership.
• Advanced Excel.
• Credibility with operational managers and the willingness to challenge them.

Desirable

• Previous experience in process manufacturing.
• Multi site experience.
• Manufacturing finance experience, including standard costing and variance analysis.

Who these suits

A qualified accountant, ACA, ACCA or CIMA is a must. You may have worked in manufacturing, you understand standard costing properly, and you are comfortable on the shop floor asking why a line ran at 74%. Recyclates experience is useful and not required.