Finance Business Partner

Alexander Lloyd are proud to be partnering a rapidly expanding manufacturing business located in Horsham to recruit for a Qualified (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
Finance Business Partner. This role is newly created due to team expansion. This will be 4 days PW in the office

This is a true FBP role with extensive stakeholder engagement with non finance professionals

The Business Partner will be pivotal in providing the financial support both to the business during a period of rapid business growth and operational scaling and to the broader finance team to ensure accuracy of reporting and forecasting.

Duties will include but not be limited too:

• Own and manage the financial integrity and ensuring that the financial position of that project and any risks and opportunities are well highlighted and understood.
• Provide insights on pricing strategy, discount structures, and customer profitability to support the evaluation of commercial deals and bids for financial viability and ROI.
• Support sales forecasting, pipeline analysis, and revenue growth strategies.
• Lead budgeting and forecasting for business units, ensuring alignment with overall strategy.
• In collaboration with the Finance team, ensure timely production of monthly Management Accounts.
• Assist in the budgeting and forecasting process, working closely with the project teams and the finance team to ensure a well-rounded and considered financial forecast.
• Influence and drive a culture that plans, reviews and delivers tighter cost understanding, control and management.
• Feed into the monthly cash forecasting process, developing appropriate project level near-term cash forecasting, management and reporting, identifying opportunities for working capital improvements.
• Develop key project level performance indicators and metrics that support and enable better decision making at a project level, that foster simplicity, clarity and a better understanding at both company and group level

• Qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA
• A strong background within commercial finance
• Excellent communication skills as this role will partner extensively with senior stakeholders (finance & non finance)
• Advanced Excel
• 4 days office - non negotiable
• A background in manufacturing, aerospace, aviation beneficial but not essential