Job Description: Assistant Finance Business Partner
Location: Coalville (3 days on-site / 2 days remote) Salary: Up to £42,000 + car allowance
Role Overview
The Assistant Finance Business Partner supports the delivery of accurate financial reporting, analysis, and insight across a manufacturing environment. Working alongside senior finance colleagues, the role partners with operational and commercial teams to support decision-making, improve cost control, and drive business performance. This position offers excellent exposure to core finance processes and business partnering, with opportunities for development.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the preparation of monthly management accounts, including variance analysis and performance reporting
- Assist in managing elements of the P&L and Balance Sheet across multiple sites or cost centres
- Contribute to the budgeting and forecasting process
- Analyse pricing and margins to provide insight into business performance
- Assist with monitoring capital expenditure and supporting project appraisals
- Participate in regular performance review meetings with operational stakeholders
- Prepare and support balance sheet reconciliations, highlighting risks and discrepancies
- Ensure adherence to financial controls and support ongoing process improvements
- Assist with internal and external audit requirements
- Build relationships with operational and commercial teams to support cost control and performance initiatives
Skills & Experience Required
- Part-qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA or ACCA)
- Previous experience in a finance role with exposure to management accounts or financial analysis
- Strong Excel skills and good analytical capability
- Understanding of core finance principles, including P&L, balance sheet, and cost drivers
- Experience with ERP systems (e.g. JDE) and reporting tools (desirable)
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to work with non-finance stakeholders
- Proactive, organised, and able to manage multiple deadlines
- Eagerness to learn and develop within a business partnering role
What Success Looks Like
- Accurate and timely financial reporting
- Reliable support for budgeting and forecasting processes
- Clear and insightful analysis to support decision-makingStrong collaboration with finance and operational teams
- Progressive development into a confident Finance Business Partner role
