Financial Analyst
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About the Role
Robert Half is hiring a Finance Analyst for a global manufacturing and retail business in Banbury. The role involves finance business partnering with operations, including month-end close, variance analysis, and inventory control.
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Responsibilities
- Owning the monthly close for operations finance accruals, cost centre reviews and key control checks
- Leading variance analysis of the operations P&L versus budget, forecast and prior year
- Preparing monthly operations scorecards and contributing to performance reviews with senior leadership
- Analysing manufacturing cost performance across labour, materials, overheads, scrap and absorption
- Owning the Fixed Asset Register and leading post investment reviews on capex
- Managing manufacturing inventory control, including valuation, variances, write offs and provisions
- Leading operations forecasting cycles and annual budget inputs
- Acting as business partner to Production, Engineering, Quality and CI teams
Requirements
- Ideally CIMA, ACCA or ACA part qualified as a minimum – QBE also considered
- Solid operations accounting background: standard costing, variance analysis, inventory valuation and month end controls
- Experience in a manufacturing or consumer goods environment is desirable
- Strong SAP and Excel skills; Power BI experience an advantage
- Confident communicator able to translate complex financial insight for non finance stakeholders
- Proactive and self driven, comfortable owning outputs with limited supervision
- A genuine team player
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The Role
- Reporting to the Financial Controller, this is a high impact finance business partnering role covering UK manufacturing operations.
- You'll be the financial voice at the operations table providing clear insight, challenging performance and driving improvement across cost, productivity and inventory.
Key Responsibilities
- Owning the monthly close for operations finance accruals, cost centre reviews and key control checks.
- Leading variance analysis of the operations P&L versus budget, forecast and prior year.
- Preparing monthly operations scorecards and contributing to performance reviews with senior leadership.
- Analysing manufacturing cost performance across labour, materials, overheads, scrap and absorption.
- Owning the Fixed Asset Register and leading post investment reviews on capex.
- Managing manufacturing inventory control, including valuation, variances, write offs and provisions.
- Leading operations forecasting cycles and annual budget inputs.
- Acting as business partner to Production, Engineering, Quality and CI teams.
What We're Looking For
- Ideally CIMA, ACCA or ACA part qualified as a minimum – QBE also considered.
- Solid operations accounting background: standard costing, variance analysis, inventory valuation and month end controls.
- Experience in a manufacturing or consumer goods environment is desirable.
- Strong SAP and Excel skills; Power BI experience an advantage.
- Confident communicator able to translate complex financial insight for non finance stakeholders.
- Proactive and self driven, comfortable owning outputs with limited supervision.
- A genuine team player.
What's on Offer
- £40,000 – £45,000 salary depending on experience.
- A defined path to hybrid working once you're through onboarding and training.
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with length of service.
- Simply Health cashback plan covering medical, dental, optical and more.
- Life assurance at 2x basic salary.
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) 24/7 legal, financial and personal support.
- Long Service Awards recognising loyalty at key milestones.
- Pension scheme with employer contribution (matching up to 4%).
- Discount platform giving access to exclusive deals and offers.
- Cycle to Work scheme and Electric Vehicle scheme.
- Free Will Writing Service and Free Mortgage Advice Service.
- Learning & Development budget access to professional and personal development.
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