Senior Finance Manager - Manufacturing Operations in Woking

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What to Expect

We are seeking a commercially astute and influential Senior Finance Manager to play a critical role within our manufacturing operations.

Partnering closely with the Manufacturing Leadership Team and Executive Director, this position offers the opportunity to shape strategic decision‑making across multiple production areas while leading finance activity.

This is a high‑impact role, suited to someone who thrives in a fast‑paced, evolving environment, and is confident operating with complexity, ambiguity, and competing priorities.

What You'll Do

• Finance Business Partner for manufacturing across multiple sites, including Carbon Components, Transmission, Vehicle Assembly and Special Projects.
• Finance lead for the manufacturing transformation programme, accountable for finance project management and cross‑workstream coordination.
• Key member of the Manufacturing and Finance senior leadership teams, working closely with the Manufacturing Leadership Team and Executive Director of Manufacturing.
• Lead, coach and develop three direct reports and 2 indirect reports.
• Own financial management and oversight of Manufacturing, providing governance, insight and constructive challenge to support decision‑making Principal Accountabilities.
• Own end‑to‑end financial management for manufacturing costs across Carbon Components, Transmission, Vehicle Assembly and Special Projects, including budgeting, forecasting, reporting and cost control.
• Lead finance project management for the manufacturing transformation programme.
• Coordinate finance activity across all workstreams and respond to ad hoc requests.
• Drive strong ownership of Cap Ex and Op Ex forecasts by workstream, with clear assumptions, tracking and accountability.
• Provide insight, constructive challenge and scenario/sensitivity analysis to support key programme decisions and gateways.
• Embed an effective finance cadence within programme governance (regular project meetings and cross‑functional forums).
• Provide proactive business partnering support for manufacturing finance, including headcount and organisational costs.
• Devise, embed and continuously improve world‑class processes for cost tracking, forecasting, reporting and governance; strengthen controls and standardisation where needed.
• Lead month‑end close for relevant manufacturing areas, ensuring timely, accurate reporting and a high standard of attention to detail.
• Ensure Directors and Heads of Function have clear budget accountability for their areas, supported by appropriate targets, reporting, management and control.
• Act as an integral part of the Manufacturing Operations team, ensuring decisions are well understood and supported by clear financial insight and recommendations.
• Maintain a live register of risks and opportunities, ensuring these are quantified, clearly communicated and actively managed with stakeholders.
• Develop and report key manufacturing KPIs (financial and non‑financial), ensuring KPI packs drive performance and accountability.
• Liaise with external auditors on cost of sales (COGS), work in progress (WIP) and raw materials, ensuring appropriate accounting treatment and robust supporting evidence.
• Develop reporting and ways of working aligned to best practice; encourage knowledge sharing and build capability across the finance community.

What You'll Bring

• Qualified accountant with strong post‑qualification experience and high attention to detail.
• Experience partnering cross‑functionally in an operations/manufacturing environment that is fast‑paced and evolving.
• Strong business partnering experience with senior operational stakeholders, with the confidence to provide insight, constructive challenge and influence outcomes.
• Experience leading finance activity within complex projects/programmes (or strong project finance/project management capability), ideally in a multi workstream environment.
• Experience of team leadership in a role with outward‑facing stakeholder management responsibilities.
• Proven change management and process implementation experience, with a track record of introducing and strengthening world‑class processes and controls.
• Continuous improvement mindset, identifying opportunities to simplify complexity, standardise and improve accuracy and timeliness.
• SAP experience is desirable, particularly leading standardisation and new process deployment.
• Experience managing budget control, forecasting and reporting across multiple areas and stakeholders; able to manage trade‑offs and actively manage risks and opportunities to deliver overall outcomes.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; able to communicate at all levels, including Manufacturing Leadership Team and Executive Director level.
• Confident providing insight and challenge; constructively challenge the status quo and drive better decision‑making.
• Strong judgement and resilience; able to operate effectively in ambiguity and with competing priorities.
• High attention to detail with strong analytical skills; able to communicate financial and analytical information clearly.
• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to drive governance, actions and follow‑through.
• Change management capability and a process excellence mindset.
• Identify risks early and escalated/manage as appropriate.
• Simplify complexity and remove waste.
• Work to deadlines, prioritising effectively when required.
• What We'll Do for You

We offer a wide – ranging benefits package, which includes

• Structured career development framework 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holiday.
• Annual buy & sell up to five days Enhanced company pension scheme.
• Discretionary annual bonus award.
• Private medical insurance and health cash plan Life assurance benefit.
• Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years’ service.
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• Generous parental leave policies.
• A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice.
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