Overview
In this Finance Business Partner role, you will deliver financial insight and reporting across diverse programmes in a fast-paced manufacturing setting. You’ll partner with operational teams to drive performance, support forecasting and budgeting, and ensure accurate financial information for decision-making. You’ll own financial reporting for long-running programmes, leveraging project and contract accounting to support revenue recognition. The role blends routine month-end work with continuous improvement and longer-term planning, offering visibility with senior stakeholders and real impact on business outcomes. This is an opportunity to shape financial strategy within a respected, project
Pay / Benefits
- competitive salary
- comprehensive benefits package
- opportunities for ongoing professional development
Responsibilities
- Provide financial support, analysis and reporting across programmes and projects
- Prepare financial results and support forecasting and budgeting processes
- Monitor programme performance and deliver timely financial information for decision-making
- Collaborate with operational teams to improve reporting and ensure accurate financial data
- Own financial reporting for long-term programmes, including revenue recognition in multi-year contracts
- Engage in continuous improvement initiatives and support longer-term business planning
Key requirements
- Experience in a manufacturing finance environment
- Strong analytical skills and ability to translate data into commercial insight
- Experience with project accounting or revenue recognition on long-term programmes
- ERP systems experience
- ACCA/CIMA/ACA qualified or near completion
- Ability to work with non-finance stakeholders
- analytical mindset
- stakeholder communication
- collaboration
- project accounting
- revenue recognition on long-term contracts
- percentage-of-completion accounting (advantageous)
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