Finance Business Partner - Costings, Commercial & Operations

Sewell Wallis is looking to secure a Finance Business Partner (with a costings, commercial, and operations focus) for a fast-growing Manufacturing business in Sheffield.

This South Yorkshire role involves working closely with operational and commercial teams to understand product margins, while analysing and forecasting raw material costs, including foreign exchange impacts and potential hedging needs. It also requires integrating standard costing into product pricing and cost structures, alongside regularly monitoring operational costs against budgets to identify variances and drive performance improvements.

This role isn't just pulling the data together, but requires someone who can digest and communicate the meaning and implications to the SLT, be heavily involved with decision making, managing large budgets, and, in return, will get real insight & experience in the business's commercial and operations functions.

You'll need to have an extensive background in Manufacturing, strong experience with modelling & Excel, and good commercial acumen.

What will you be doing?

• Regular analysis and reporting of raw material costs, including forecasting of elementals, foreign exchange and potential hedging requirements
• Understanding of the full operational process of the company's product portfolio, incorporating standard costing into product cost and pricing mechanisms
• Daily review, analysis and informative reporting of operational costs in line with budget/forecast, including assessment of manufacturing variances such as mix/yield/price/quantity, promoting cost awareness with insight to drive action and improve future performance
• Daily review, analysis and reporting of production vs forecast, including assessment of volume/revenue/GCM
• Identify operational process inefficiencies and suggest necessary improvements to enhance cost efficiency and business improvement
• Strengthen both proactive and reactive operational decision making by providing appropriate challenge to assumptions and proposals, including scenario modelling where necessary
• Actively review and drive improvements in KPI metrics
• Present cost models and pricing for new opportunities

What skills are we looking for?

• ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified (will consider QBE)
• Advanced level proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• Strong financial modelling experience
• Desire to continually improve processes
• Manufacturing experience
• Strong communication skills with both finance and non-finance managers

What's on offer?

• A competitive salary of £65,000
• Generous quarterly bonus
• Flexible working hours within core hours 7:30am-6pm
• Recognition of additional work put in during tight deadlines
• Matched pension up to 8%
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Christmas Shutdown
• Private healthcare
• Free secure parking
• Annual salary reviews

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To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.