Site Finance Business Partner

Manufacturing performance depends on accurate financial insight, disciplined cost management, strong controls, and the ability to translate operational activity into meaningful business decisions. Site leaders need a finance partner who can connect financial results with the operational drivers behind performance.

The Site Finance Business Partner is the senior finance role on site, providing accurate, timely and practical financial leadership to the site's leadership team. The role leads reporting, analysis, control and constructive challenge across site financial performance, while supporting budgets, forecasts, month-end reporting, cost and stock reporting, margin analysis, standard costing, business cases and capital investment requests.

This is a highly visible role with a direct impact on financial reporting, cost control, and operational decision making. Success requires a detailed understanding of manufacturing processes, stock movements, cost drivers, and operating performance, combined with the ability to turn data into clear actions for finance and non-finance stakeholders.

Croda continues to strengthen operational excellence, manufacturing performance, and financial discipline across its sites. Finance plays a critical role in helping site leadership teams understand performance, identify risk and opportunity, and make informed decisions about cost, inventory, investment and operational priorities.

This role offers the opportunity to become a trusted adviser to site leadership, combining hands‑on financial control with practical business partnerships and measurable influence on site performance.

• Serve as the trusted finance partner to site leadership, providing practical challenges and decision support.
• Ensure site leaders receive timely, accurate and clearly understood financial reporting and analysis.
• Improve financial understanding and accountability across operational teams.
• Support site business and performance reviews with clear insight, risks, opportunities and follow-up actions.
• Deliver accurate month-end reporting, budgets and forecasts for the site.
• Improve visibility of costs, margins, overheads, and operational drivers of financial performance.
• Investigate variances, identify root causes and ensure issues are followed through to resolution.
• Strengthen forecast quality and support disciplined budget and overhead management.
• Strengthen inventory accounting, stock reporting, reconciliation and provision processes.
• Maintain robust standard costing, overhead absorption and standard-cost update processes.
• Explain manufacturing variances and stock movements in a way that supports practical operational action.
• Improve the connection between manufacturing transactions, operational data, and financial results.
• Provide robust financial support for business cases and capital investment requests.
• Maintain strong site financial controls and support internal and external audit requirements.
• Use SAP, reporting, and analytics tools to improve insight into cost, stock, and manufacturing performance.
• Continuously improve site reporting, analysis and finance processes.

• Establish a consistent site performance-review rhythm with clear ownership of financial actions.
• Improve visibility of manufacturing cost drivers, stock movements, and operational variances.
• Strengthen forecasting, budget management, and cost-control processes.
• Prioritize practical reporting and analytics improvements that support faster, better-informed decisions.

This is a hands‑on finance leadership role focused on…