Manufacturing Finance Manager

Initial 3 month Manufacturing Finance Manager role for this Employer of Choice based near Brackley. This role sits Inside IR35 and will require 5 days a week on site in the Office. Reporting to the Head of Finance the role will include:- * To business partner the manufacturing and production teams, providing accurate and insightful financial analysis and forecasting in order to improve decision making capabilities. * To provide oversight of management accounting and finance operations (AR/AP) within area of responsibility, ensuring that financial processes are robust, compliant, efficient, and automated wherever possible.

As Manufacturing Finance Manager, in this initial 3 month role reporting to the Head of Finance for this Employer of Choice based near Brackley.

This role sits Inside IR35 and will require 5 days a week on site in the Office.

Responsibilities will be varied and include:-

Business Partnering

• Be the primary Finance contact within your area of responsibility, building and maintaining strong relationships with production and manufacturing managers and their teams.
• Work with operational leads to generate budgets and forecast updates for area of responsibility, delivering weekly and monthly reports to provide oversight of financial performance.
• Generate analysis and insight to influence decision-making and improve the understanding of business performance, driving opportunities for improvements.
• Support and challenge capex spend requests to ensure timely processing and value-for-money.

Finance

• Oversee of the purchase ledger and sales ledger functions within area of responsibility, ensuring that payment and invoicing requirements are met.
• Ensure product costings are accurately generated and that invoicing runs accurately and efficiently in line with customer contracts.
• Responsibility for management accounting within area of responsibility, including any relevant month end activity such as prepayments & accruals.

Other

• Support systems development, deployment, and ongoing improvement to ensure Finance processes run effectively and accurately.
• Maintain effective communication and collaboration with key customers, maximising opportunities for system and process integration and efficiencies.

To be shortlisted for this role you require:-

• To be fully qualified CIMA, ACCA or ACA
• Minimum of 3 years PQE
• Management accounting experience essential
• Manufacturing experience strongly desirable
• Knowldege of standard costing systems and costing methodologies
• Experience of business partnering
• Ideally, experience of working within automotive or aerospace sectors
• Candidates with a SME background will also be considered
• Expert in use of Microsoft Excel

For an immediate start contact me asap, wendy.smith-howes@robertwalters.com

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