Operations Finance Business Partner

Job Description

Company description:Refresco BVJob description:About the roleReporting into the Operations Finance Manageryou will take responsibility for partnering predominately with our Milton Keynes site for all financial operational and project tasks.Key responsibilities of this role

• You will own and coordinate the planning and reporting cycles for the areas under your responsibility in collaboration with key stakeholders, particularly factory GMs.
• Ability to build effective business relationships with key stakeholders, gain credibility as a true business expert. You will have an entrepreneurial mind-set, the ability to develop executable financial insights that improve performance and overall effectivenessof your business unit/site.
• Be particularly meticulous and vigilant in planning, monitoring, and reporting headcount, waste, energy, and maintenance performance.
• Act as the financial conscience of the operations teams ensuring that targets for the areas under your responsibility are met or exceeded.
• Prepare financial calculations / models to support capital expenditure business cases including robust challenge on assumptions to ensure return on investment is maximised.
• Prepare and execute period end tasks (incl. BS reconciliations) at the required standard and time scales and deliver accurate reports on time.
• Maintain all necessary records and prepare all required period end allocations and journals.
• Deliver Ad hoc projects and analysis as required from time to time.

Your Profile You will be an inspirational Operational Finance Business Partner with the ability to guide and empower your stakeholders to deliver accurate results, proactively supporting them as required.You will be an expert within your field with the drive to succeed, improve and challenge the status quo. In addition, you will have demonstrable evidence of initiating ideas and projects that have delivered positive outcomes.To be successful in this role you will use your influencing and persuasion skills to gain the buy in from colleagues at all levels of our organization.On top of this if you have a good attitude toward working practices, and you enjoy daily challenges and embrace change with some enthusiasm, then we you will be the right person for this role.Qualifications and Experience

• You will be a qualified in ACCA/ CIMA/ ACA and committed to ongoing development
• You will bring to this role previous experience of working in Business Partnering which you will have gained through working in a similar multi-site manufacturing / FMCG organization.
• Good practical knowledge of working with Finance systems, including ERP / SAP and handling data
• You will have a strong financial planning and analysis and Operational Finance Business Partnering / Management Accounting background
• Experience of providing financial information, challenge and advice to the plant leadership teams.
• Experience of working in a matrix-style organization and managing competing stakeholder requirements.

Skills and Competencies that we are looking for include

• The ability to influence senior decision makers
• Can act as a trusted advisor to leaders in Manufacturing and Supply Chain, including the Plant General Managers and UK board members.
• Ability to meet strict deadlines.
• Identify problems at an early stage

Profile description:Your ProfileYou will be an inspirational Operational Finance Business Partner with the ability to guide and empower your stakeholders to deliver accurate results, proactively supporting them as required.You will be an expert within your field with the drive to succeed, improve and challenge the status quo. In addition, you will have demonstrable evidence of initiating ideas and projects that have delivered positive outcomes.To be successful in this role you will use your influencing and persuasion skills to gain the buy in from colleagues at all levels of our organization.On top of this if you have a good attitude toward working practices, and you enjoy daily challenges and embrace change with some enthusiasm, then we you will be the right person for this role.Qualifications and Experience

• You will be a qualified in ACCA/ CIMA/ ACA and committed to ongoing development
• You will bring to this role previous experience of working in Business Partnering which you will have gained through working in a similar multi-site manufacturing / FMCG organization.
• Good practical knowledge of working with Finance systems, including ERP / SAP and handling data
• You will have a strong financial planning and analysis and Operational Finance Business Partnering / Management Accounting background
• Experience of providing financial information, challenge and advice to the plant leadership teams.
• Experience of working in a matrix-style organization and managing competing stakeholder requirements.

Skills and Competencies that we are looking for include

• The ability to influence senior decision makers
• Can act as a trusted advisor to leaders in Manufacturing and Supply Chain, including the Plant General Managers and UK board members.
• Ability to meet strict deadlines.
• Identify problems at an early stage

We offer:About RefrescoOur drinks on every table. Thats the Refresco vision. Were thirsty for more and growing fast which is why we invested £1.25 billion in expanding our global manufacturing footprint making us the largest independent bottler of soft drinks and fruit juices inthe world. We currently produce 12 billion litres from 70manufacturing plants in 12 countries and were only just getting started...Our UK Business unit has six manufacturing plants providing a great place to work for 1800 employees producing private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers including Tesco, ASDA, Morrisons, Sainsburys, ALDI and Lidl. We also manufacturefor branded customers such as Innocent, Monster, Ocean Spray, Weetabix, Del Monte and Um Bongo. Whether its packed in Cartons, PET, Aseptic PET or Cans, we ensure that our products are not only manufactured to the highest quality standards, but they get wherethey need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high-profile customers.Refresco are an equal opportunitiesemployer.