Agratas – A Tata Enterprise
Head UK Supply Chain Finance and Capex
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Purpose of the Role
Lead the Supply Chain Finance function for UK Industrialization, Supply Chain, Manufacturing Operations, Process Equipment, and Capital Delivery, ensuring delivery of financial, operational, and strategic objectives. The role is accountable for capital investment governance, cost competitiveness, supply chain finance, working capital optimization, business partnering, and financial stewardship across the UK business in alignment with Corporate office while supporting the company's growth and industrialization agenda.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Finance Leadership
- Lead UK Supply Chain and CapEx Finance, partnering with senior leaders on strategy, investment decisions, risk, and long-range planning.
CapEx and Governance
- Lead CapEx planning, governance, forecasting, approvals, reporting, and investment performance for UK capital programmes.
Supply Chain and Operations Finance
- Partner with Procurement, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Logistics, and Operations on budgets, forecasts, performance, and decisions.
Cost Management and Value Creation
- Drive cost optimisation, benchmarking, value engineering, TCO, Make vs Buy analysis, and commercial insight.
Working Capital and Cash Flow Management
- Optimise working capital, cash forecasting, inventory, supplier payments, logistics, and operational spend.
Financial Control, Risk and Compliance
- Maintain financial controls, governance, audit readiness, and risk management across projects, contracts, and operations.
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Systems, Digital Finance and Transformation
- Lead SAP S/4HANA finance capability, digitalisation, automation, dashboards, analytics, and reporting accuracy.
Funding, Due Diligence and Government Incentives
- Support financing, due diligence, lender engagement, grants, incentives, and related compliance reporting.
Performance Management and Reporting
- Lead close, MIS, forecasting, variance analysis, management reviews, and insight-led performance reporting.
Stakeholder Management
- Influence senior stakeholders on cost, schedule, risk, funding, audit, supplier, and operational decisions.
Leadership Expectations
- Build a high-performing finance team, driving accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, governance, and financial discipline.
Skills And Experience
- Senior finance leadership experience within advanced manufacturing, supply chain, engineering or large-scale industrial environments.
- Strong experience in CapEx finance, supply chain finance, financial control, forecasting, working capital, and performance reporting.
- Experience leading ERP or SAP implementations, ideally across supply chain, procurement, materials management, or manufacturing finance.
- Confident partnering with senior leaders and influencing complex stakeholder groups.
Qualifications / Certifications
- Professional finance qualification required.
Key Success Measures
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- CapEx delivery, cash flow adherence, and forecast accuracy.
- Working capital improvement and cost optimisation.
- Strong audit, risk, and compliance outcomes.
- SAP S/4HANA finance transformation milestones.
- Team capability, engagement, and stakeholder satisfaction.
What you’ll get…
As a new company, our reward scheme is constantly evolving. We continue to review the market to deliver a competitive benefits package, which currently includes private healthcare, company bonus, enhanced parental leave policy, and a cash allowance to boost your benefits. We are a flexible business that is committed to promoting work-life balance, partnering with Yulife to provide our team members with total wellbeing support.
You’ll work in a rapidly scaling-up environment as a subsidiary of the multinational corporation, Tata Sons, to help build the UK’s biggest battery manufacturing facility and make your mark in a new organisation.
Agratas is a place to be authentically you. At Agratas, we strongly believe that people are at their best when they feel supported and happy in their workplace. To that end, we continue to cultivate a diverse workforce which protects the individuality of each team member. We therefore warmly welcome applicants from any race, gender, sexuality, and ability. Should you have a preference in how your suitability is assessed for this role or require any reasonable adjustments, please let the Talent Acquisition team know.
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