About this opportunity
As a Senior Manufacturing Finance Analyst you will provide leadership across your group of PACT site Operations, developing & driving best practice in cost and inventory management, controls and governance to drive an increase in shareholder value.
You will provide the critical commercial link between Manufacturing / Operations and the various Finance functions, to ensure standard costs are rational and logical enabling our business stakeholders to make well informed decisions based on accurate information – on the factory floor and with our customers.
Building strong relationships and developing insights into operations is within your remit, including key factors such as product / services costing, stock-management, bills-of-materials (BOMs), labour, freight and production technology. You will also work with your key stakeholders to establish effective review and reporting cadences and ensure clear information /insights to support accountabilities and provide critical finance support.
Demonstrating your analytical perspective, you will drive cost effectiveness, extract efficiencies, optimise controls and manage risk with a strong focus implementing best practice margin and cost management, while driving consistency of implementation across all parts of Pact.
Your key responsibilities will be to:
- Display an unrelenting focus on improving our safety culture. Your behavioural leadership is genuine and highly visible
- Support the Operations/Finance Managers in the delivery of planning, budgeting and forecasting
- Undertake complex cost modelling to support equipment and site optimisation (plant of best fit) analysis
- Lead the calculation and analysis of cost-related benefits to support proposals for major capital expenditure projects
- Coaching of Manufacturing Finance Analyst to drive capability across the team
- Best practice for product and services coting with a continuous improvement focus
- P&L and balance sheet management
Your skills and experience
- Deeping understanding and experience with manufacturing standard costing practices such as cost allocation methods and cost sensitivity analysis in an SAP environment
- Experience partnering with cross functional stakeholder to identify opportunities, draw insights, develop solutions and deliver results
- Understand the implications business and accounting decisions have on one another
- Strong supervisory and leadership skills
- High level of analytical and problem-solving skills, leveraging analytical capability to influence business stakeholders to more effectively manage costs, risks, revenues and profits
- Thorough financial understanding of P&L, accounting systems and financial metrics
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate with people at all levels in technical or non-technical language, which can be easily understood.
- Proven proactive self-starter – able to identify and mange priorities
