Overview
In this Finance Manager/Financial Controller role, you will lead a growing manufacturing finance function and partner with senior leadership to drive strategic decisions. You’ll own financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and cash management, while supporting capital investments and efficiency projects. The position sits within a fast-paced production environment, focusing on profitability, working capital, and operational improvements. Your work will shape financial strategy and ensure robust controls, reporting, and team capability.
Pay / Benefits
- competitive salary and benefits package
- exposure to senior leadership
- involvement in significant investment and improvement projects
- supportive and collaborative working environment
- long-term career development opportunities
Responsibilities
- Lead the finance function and ensure timely, accurate financial reporting
- Develop integrated financial forecasts (P&L, Balance Sheet, cash flow) to support planning
- Manage cash flow, working capital and banking relationships
- Support funding applications, lender reporting and capex investment proposals
- Partner with operations and commercial teams on margins, pricing and customer performance
- Support automation, production improvement and operational efficiency through financial analysis and business cases
- Lead budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis processes
- Drive continuous improvement of finance processes, controls and reporting
- Develop and coach finance team members to enhance performance
Key requirements
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- Experience in Finance Manager, Financial Controller or senior finance role
- Experience in manufacturing, FMCG or operationally focused business
- Strong financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting
- Excellent financial modelling and analytical skills
- Experience managing cash flow, working capital and banking relationships
- Commercial mindset with stakeholder influence across ops and sales
- Experience supporting investment decisions and capex projects
- Strong leadership and team development skills
- ERP experience, ideally Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central or similar
- leadership
- influencing stakeholders
- cross-functional collaboration
- financial modelling
- forecasting
- cash flow management
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