Veracious Talent Partners
Senior Finance Manager
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Peterborough
Hybrid – 3 days office / 2 days home
Up to £80,000 + 15% Bonus
The Opportunity
We are recruiting a Senior Finance Manager on behalf of a large UK business which forms part of a global organisation.
This is a high-profile role within the finance function, taking full financial ownership of a significant production cost base and acting as a key finance partner to senior operational stakeholders across the organisation.
Reporting into senior finance leadership and managing a team of two, you will take ownership of the Production P&L, providing the financial insight, challenge and commercial support required to drive effective decision making.
The role combines strong financial control and management accounting with genuine business partnering, making it particularly well suited to someone who enjoys getting underneath operational performance and working closely with non-finance stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Take full ownership of the Production P&L, ensuring robust financial control and a clear understanding of the key drivers behind performance.
- Lead the budgeting, forecasting and rolling planning process across production and operational costs.
- Deliver accurate weekly, monthly and longer-term financial reporting, providing clear commentary around performance, risks and opportunities.
- Partner closely with senior operational stakeholders, both internally and externally, providing financial insight and constructive challenge.
- Develop a detailed understanding of operational cost drivers and identify opportunities to improve performance and efficiency.
- Support commercial decision making, business cases and contract reviews relating to production and operational activities.
- Maintain strong control over balance sheet accounts, inventory and other operationally driven financial areas.
- Challenge existing processes and controls, identifying opportunities to simplify, automate and improve financial reporting.
- Lead, coach and develop two direct reports, ensuring high standards of delivery across the team.
- Build strong relationships across finance and the wider organisation, translating complex financial information into meaningful insight for non-finance stakeholders.
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The underlying role also places particular emphasis on operational P&L management, complex inventory accounts, rolling forecasts and the ability to turn operational financial data into clear risk and opportunity commentary for senior stakeholders.
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About You
We are looking for a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with a strong background in management accounting, operational finance and business partnering. You will ideally bring:
- Experience owning or managing a sizeable operational or production P&L.
- Strong budgeting, forecasting and management reporting experience.
- The ability to understand the operational drivers behind financial performance rather than simply report the numbers.
- Experience partnering with senior non-finance stakeholders and providing appropriate challenge.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify and clearly communicate risks, opportunities and areas for improvement.
- Experience working with inventory, stock or complex operational cost bases would be advantageous.
- Previous people management experience.
- Exposure to a manufacturing, production, FMCG, logistics, supply chain or similarly operational environment would be particularly relevant.
- Strong systems capability and experience working with large ERP and reporting environments.
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