Anne Corder Recruitment
Finance Manager
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Are you an experienced finance professional with a strong background in manufacturing, product costing and commercial analysis?
We’re recruiting for a Finance Manager to join an established manufacturing business in Peterborough. This is a highly visible position working closely with the Plant Manager and wider site leadership team, providing the financial insight needed to improve performance, control costs and support key operational and investment decisions.
This is much more than a reporting role. You’ll become a genuine finance business partner to the manufacturing operation, using data and analysis to challenge performance, identify opportunities and help drive continuous improvement across the site.
The role
As Finance Manager, you’ll take ownership of plant-level financial performance and provide meaningful insight around manufacturing costs, yield, efficiency, overheads and capital expenditure.
Your responsibilities will include but not limited to:
- Preparing management reports and target vs actual variance analysis
- Producing and evaluating forecasts and annual plant budgets
- Manufacturing and product cost calculations
- Analysing factory performance across yield, efficiency, overheads and CAPEX
- Identifying opportunities to optimise manufacturing costs and profitability
- Reviewing and challenging weekly yield and efficiency reporting
- Supporting continuous improvement initiatives across the site
- Providing financial support around strategic investment and fixed assets
- Ensuring financial records are accurate, timely and in line with group standards
- Participating in senior leadership and site performance meetings
- Providing financial insight and challenge to the Plant Manager and management team
- Supporting and developing direct reports, ensuring priorities and deliverables are effectively managed
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About you
We’re looking for someone who understands the numbers but, importantly, can translate them into meaningful commercial and operational insight.
Ideally, as a Finance Manager you will have:
- Around 5 years' financial controlling experience within a manufacturing environment
- Strong experience of modern production and manufacturing cost control
- Knowledge of product costing, variance analysis, budgeting and forecasting
- Some financial accounting experience, including GL and AP
- Advanced Excel and BI skills
- ERP experience, SAP, Infor M3 or similar would be advantageous
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- The confidence to challenge, influence and work closely with senior stakeholders
- A proactive, independent and commercially minded approach
- ACCA or CIMA qualification is preferred but not essential
There will also be very occasional travel within Europe.
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Why apply?
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced manufacturing finance professional who wants to be close to the operation and have a genuine influence on site performance. You’ll work directly with senior leadership, combining detailed financial analysis with commercial business partnering and continuous improvement. If you have a strong manufacturing finance background and enjoy getting behind the numbers to understand what is driving performance and where improvements can be made, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply today or contact Anne Corder Recruitment for a confidential conversation.
Anne Corder Recruitment Ltd acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and as an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying you will be registered as a candidate with Anne Corder Recruitment Ltd, your personal data may be added to our database as part of the application process. Our privacy policy is available on our website and explains how we will use your data. Your details will be reviewed by one of our Recruitment Partners and we will contact you again within 5 working days if your application is to be progressed further.
Please note that we are not able to provide support with visa sponsorships and all applicants must be based in the UK and hold valid right to work in the UK.
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