AJ Chambers ®
Finance Business Partner
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Finance Manager / FBP - Thurrock - Logistics / Supply Chain - Up to £65,000 per annum
💰 £55,000 - £65,000 depending on experience
📍 Thurrock
🕘 8:30am - 5:00pm | Monday - Friday
🌴 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays
🚗 On-Site Parking
💼 Pension
Are you a commercially minded Finance Manager who enjoys driving change and transformation rather than simply reporting the numbers?
We're recruiting for a growing nationwide business, with international links, looking for a Finance Manager to lead process improvements, deliver meaningful business insights, and partner with operational teams to improve performance.
Role overview
We are seeking a commercially minded Finance Manager to lead and develop the UK finance function. This role goes beyond traditional accounting and reporting responsibilities, with a strong emphasis on analysis, business partnering, process improvement, and decision support.
The successful candidate will be a proactive finance leader who can use financial and operational data to identify trends, challenge existing practices, and drive meaningful improvements across the business.
- Oversee the day-to-day finance function, ensuring accurate financial reporting and effective financial controls.
- Produce monthly management accounts, forecasts, and budgets.
- Analyse operational and financial performance trends to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Partner with operational teams to improve profitability, productivity, and working capital.
- Develop and monitor KPIs, dashboards, and performance metrics.
- Provide actionable business insights to support strategic decision-making.
- Challenge existing processes, identify inefficiencies, and implement improvements.
- Support the continued evolution of the finance function from transaction processing towards analysis and business partnering.
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Analytical mindset – critical requirement
The successful candidate must demonstrate strong analytical capabilities and the ability to move beyond traditional accounting and reporting activities.
We are looking for a finance leader who can:
- Analyse operational and financial performance trends.
- Challenge existing processes and identify inefficiencies.
- Use data to support decision-making and prioritisation.
- Identify root causes rather than treating symptoms.
- Develop KPIs, dashboards, and performance metrics.
- Partner with operational teams to improve profitability, productivity, and working capital.
- Translate financial information into actionable business insights.
Industry knowledge – highly preferred
Previous experience within Freight Forwarding, Logistics, Supply Chain, Shipping, NVOCC, Warehousing, or a related industry is highly desirable.
Process change and transformation leadership – critical requirement
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We are seeking a change agent rather than a traditional Finance Manager. The successful candidate should have demonstrated experience in:
- Leading finance transformation initiatives.
- Challenging legacy ways of working.
- Redesigning end-to-end processes.
- Driving standardisation and simplification.
- Implementing automation and efficiency improvements.
- Managing organisational change and stakeholder resistance.
- Delivering measurable productivity gains.
The ability to influence, motivate, and bring people along the journey is essential. We are not looking for someone who simply maintains existing processes; we are looking for someone who can improve them and help shape the future operating model of the UK finance function.
Candidate profile
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) or qualified by experience.
- Proven experience in a Finance Manager or similar senior finance role.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Commercially minded with the ability to translate financial data into business insights.
- Experience of process improvement, transformation, and change management.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience within freight forwarding, logistics, or a related industry would be a significant advantage.
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