Senior Finance Business Partner - Supply Chain

Job Title
:

Senior Finance Business Partner
- Supply Chain

Function
:
Finance

Location
:
Head Office, Glasgow
- Hybrid - 2 days per week in office.

Job Level: (Internal Reference Only) 5

Contract
:
Full Time
- Permanent
- Monday to Thursday, 08:30am – 5pm & Friday, 08:30 – 13:30 (35 hours p/w). Occasional travel and overnights required.

Role

Reports to:

Head of Bulk Stock & Operational Finance

Date vacancy will close
:
Friday, 30th October 2026. Where we receive high numbers of applications we may close vacancies early.

Born in Glasgow, made in Scotland and enjoyed around the world. Whyte and Mackay is home to a collection of multi-award-winning global whisky brands led by The Dalmore, Fettercairn, Jura and Tamnavulin. Our mission is to be a driving force in whisky, renowned for building brands that stand-out. Enabled by our brilliant community of 675 colleagues, reaching across 17 countries and counting.

We're led by our values, continuing to grow and invest and looking for great talent to join our brilliant community. Ready to hear more?

Provide a high-quality business partnering role to the key stakeholders in Supply Chain and Bottling area and an integral part within the finance function.

The Senior Business Partner Supply Chain is the lead finance partner for bottling, packaging and related manufacturing operations. The role owns product and production costing, operational budgeting and forecasting, performance reporting, and the financial assessment of efficiency opportunities. Working closely with Bottling, Production, Planning, Procurement, Engineering, Supply Chain and Commercial teams, the role provides robust insight and constructive challenge to improve cost control, operational performance, decision-making and long-term value creation.

The postholder will maintain a strong financial control environment, ensure the integrity of standard and actual costs, explain manufacturing variances, and translate complex operational data into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders.

This role is also responsible for people management of the Purchase Ledger and Bottling & Costing Assistant role.

• Own the end-to-end costing process for bottled whisky products, including liquid, dry goods, packaging, labour, overheads, warehousing and other manufacturing inputs.
• Maintain and govern standard costs, bills of material, routings, labour rates, overhead absorption methodologies and cost-centre structures.
• Lead annual standard-cost setting and in-year cost updates, ensuring assumptions are evidence-based, controlled and approved.
• Analyse actual versus standard costs and clearly explain purchase price, usage, yield, labour, overhead, volume, mix and efficiency variances.
• Provide accurate cost estimates for new products, packaging changes, limited editions, customer-specific requirements and innovation projects. Taking bottling format, pack specification, production location and batch size into consideration.

• Lead the annual budget and periodic forecast processes for bottling and relevant manufacturing cost centres.
• Develop cost forecasts aligned to production plans, bottling schedules, volume and mix assumptions, staffing, maintenance programmes, utilities, packaging prices and inflation.
• Build and maintain robust financial models to support medium- and long-term capacity, sourcing and investment decisions.
• Coordinate inputs from operational stakeholders, challenge assumptions and present a clear view of risks and opportunities.
• Provide timely scenario analysis for changes in demand, production volumes, line utilisation, material costs and operating constraints.

• Take part in strategic projects across the operations area from a finance perspective. Provide an analytical eye on projects to ensure the financial aspects are robust, accurate and not over-looked.
• Continually review processes in the department to ensure they are at their most efficient.
• Support with other ad-hoc areas in the operational finance team, including monthly reconciliations and month end close.
• Lead cross-functional improvement work streams and promote a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

• Develop and maintain performance reporting for bottling and manufacturing operations, with clear links between operational drivers and financial outcomes.
• Monitor measures…