Finance Business Partner

VNI Finance is delighted to be retained by our key manufacturing client in the Glasgow Area to recruit a newly created Finance Business Partner role.

This highly visible role will report directly to the Managing Director and would suit a hands-on, motivated individual keen to build the link between finance and ops. The role will look beyond the monthly results to explain what is happening across costs, margins, stock and working capital. The role will also lead a small finance team at Head Office.

The successful candidate will likely come from a manufacturing/engineering background.

• Partner with operations to understand activity, productivity, costs and margins, explaining the financial impact of day-to-day decisions.
• Build and maintain clear performance reporting, using operational and financial measures to identify trends, risks and opportunities.
• Lead the budgeting and forecasting process for your areas, testing assumptions with managers and updating the outlook as trading changes.
• Analyse pricing, customer and product profitability, and support decisions on commercial terms and resource allocation.
• Work with colleagues on stock, purchasing and working capital, improving visibility of movements, variances and cash implications.
• Support month-end reporting, reconciliations and variance analysis, ensuring figures are accurate and commentary is useful to decision-makers.
• Improve the quality and accessibility of management information, including the use of Excel and reporting systems, and help embed better financial processes.
• Present findings clearly to non-finance colleagues and follow through with them on agreed actions

• A recognised accounting qualification, with experience in a finance business partnering, commercial finance or operational finance role.
• Strong analytical ability and the confidence to work with imperfect data, get behind variances and recommend a course of action.
• Experience in a stock, manufacturing, metals, distribution or similarly operational environment would be particularly relevant.
• The ability to build credible relationships with operational managers while asking the right questions and holding people to account.
• Good financial control, forecasting and Excel skills, with an interest in improving reporting and processes.

• Hybrid working once established in the role
• Enhanced Pension (9% business contribution)
• Flexible working hours with a 1:30 pm finish on a Friday