Financial Analyst / FBP

£30-35k – Office based 5 days a week – Chichester

Commercial role for a large manufacturing company based in Chichester working directly for a supportive and progressive, senior finance manager. I am searching for someone with strong inter-personal skills as you will be interacting across both the operational business and with finance. However, you will also need strong attention to detail to be a success

An operational finance role focussed on supporting and challenging margin analysis, product costing, operational KPIs, savings and efficiency improvements, budgeting, and forecasting. The key finance business partner responsible for accurately reporting all financial information for operations and central overheads, providing explanations of financial performance in a timely manner and providing financial support on new and existing business cases and projects.

In addition the role should challenge the commercial performance at customer and category level to effectively deliver insight, add value, and influence strategic business decisions and to help deliver accurate detailed information and analysis, through in-depth commentary and being an active finance business partner within the company

Detailed Duties:

• Produce weekly KPI’s, margin reports and explain variances to Budget, Forecast and Flexed Budget.
• Support in the closure of open Production orders, updating systems and investigating any errors
• Support in the production of annual budgets and forecasts.
• Challenge the management team on costs and practices to drive efficiency.
• Understand the drivers for COGI errors etc and overview of packing operations from inbound to outbound.
• Reconcile labour to standard and understand the underlying PPM and hourly rate (taking account of overtime
  premium) including spending time in packhouse with the Zone Managers, to build that relationship.
• Support the completion of capital/investment and efficiency projects to enable decision making.
• Support the improvement of controls regarding inventory and packing processes.
• Observe and review stocktake results and setting targeted reductions, including attendance at year end counts.
• Support the production of commercial costing models
• Support the Finance Manager – Operations in the production of the consolidated management accounts
• Support the interrogation and challenge the Commercial team to ensure accurate forecasting of customer volumes, sales, and marginal gross profit
• Involvement in the tendering process with involvement in determining the cost of the products being tendered
  and supporting with key decision-making regarding business-critical tenders
• Ensuring the system is regularly updated relating to costings by SKU, ensuring accuracy in Bill of Material,
  assigning routings to each SKU, and facilitating the release of costing in SAP.
• Management of P3P invoicing/payment spreadsheet

Candidate Knowledge & Skills:.

My client will look at QBE or PQ candidates with strong business partnering skills and a high attention to detail, but they do have a preference for experience in a complex company with scale

• Excellent numeracy and problem solving skills.
• Good people skills to build strong relationships with business and external partners .
• Good communicator at all levels and able to influence others .
• Advanced Excel skills is essential .
• Competent with ERP systems is essential (SAP desirable)

Personal Attributes:

• Positive, confident and proactive attitude.
• Focused and committed to achieving results.
• Organised and strong at multitasking.
• Ability to work and deliver under pressure
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• Good team player

My client will pay a competitive salary (depending on experience) with pension and 25 days hols. Ideally you will be office based 5 days a week with some life flexibility given.

Application process: To apply please send in your CV with a short cover note about why this role appeals and details of your current package (basic and benefits), expected salary and notice period. Brief details of why you are looking to change roles would be appreciated.

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