Interim Finance Business Partner

Your new company
A global engineering and manufacturing organisation, recognised for innovation and operational excellence, is seeking an experienced Finance Business Partner to support its Operations & Supply Chain division. The business is undergoing significant optimisation across its manufacturing footprint, and this opportunity plays a key role in shaping that journey. Your new role
Working as a strategic partner to Operations and Supply Chain leadership, you'll provide high quality financial insight to influence decision making across manufacturing performance, cost control, planning, and operational efficiency initiatives. You will:

Deliver financial analysis across labour, materials, inventory, and operational KPIs
Support forecasting, budgeting, and long range planning for the UK site
Challenge assumptions and identify risks, opportunities, and improvement areas
Business partner closely with cross functional stakeholders, ensuring financial transparency
Drive standardisation, process improvement, and stronger cost to serve visibility

This is a role where you'll genuinely impact operational outcomes, not just report on them.

What you'll need to succeed
To thrive in this contract, you'll bring:

Proven experience as a Finance Business Partner within manufacturing, engineering or similar complex environments
Strong analytical and modelling skills with a commercially proactive mindset
The ability to influence senior leaders and challenge constructively
Experience working across Operations & Supply Chain finance
A hands on, solutions driven approach suited to an interim environment
Ideally, a recognised accounting qualification (CIMA/ACCA/ACA)
What you'll get in return

A high impact interim role within a global organisation with an opportunity of a permanent role.
Hybrid working and a supportive leadership team
The chance to shape operational performance during a key transformation period
Competitive day rate, aligned to experience

What you need to do now
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