Finance Business Partner

Are you a commercially minded finance professional who enjoys influencing operational decision-making rather than simply reporting the numbers?

We’re looking for a Finance Business Partner to join our manufacturing client based at our main production facility in Stalybridge. This is a highly visible role where you’ll partner with operational leaders, drive financial performance and support strategic decision-making across multiple manufacturing sites.

Managing several centres with a multi-million-pound turnover, you’ll play a key role in improving efficiency, challenging the status quo and delivering meaningful commercial insight.

Due to an internal secondment, this role is being offered on a contractual basis for 9-12 Months.

What You Get

• A generous salary
• A commercially focused Finance Business Partner role with genuine influence across the business
• The chance to shape business performance through insight, analysis and continuous improvement
• Minimal UK travel

About You

You’re an ambitious Finance Business Partner who enjoys getting out from behind the spreadsheets and partnering with operational teams to improve business performance.

You’ll be naturally curious, commercially aware and confident challenging existing processes to identify opportunities for improvement. You thrive in a fast-paced manufacturing environment and enjoy turning financial data into meaningful business insight.

You’ll also have:

• CIMA or ACCA qualification (or be actively studying at the final level)
• A minimum of five years’ experience within a busy finance function
• Strong product costing experience within a manufacturing environment is essential
• Experience preparing management accounts and delivering insightful financial analysis
• Strong Excel skills with SAP or similar ERP experience is require
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• A proactive, collaborative approach with strong attention to detail
• A continuous improvement mindset and a passion for driving efficiencies

About The Role

Based at their main production facility in East Manchester, you’ll take ownership of the financial performance for several large-turnover profit centres.

Reporting to the UK FD, you’ll act as a trusted Finance Business Partner to site leadership teams, helping drive operational efficiencies, improve profitability and support strategic decision-making.

• Partnering with site leaders to identify cost reduction and efficiency opportunities
• Presenting quarterly financial performance to leadership teams
• Analysing trends and providing commercial insight to support decision-making
• Assessing new customer profitability and capital investment opportunities
• Producing month-end management accounts for your allocated sites
• Preparing accruals, prepayments and journals
• Reviewing and challenging financial performance through detailed variance analysis
• Maintaining accurate standard costs through monthly product re-costing
• Supporting budgeting and forecasting activities
• Calculating overhead recovery rates and managing cost allocations
• Supporting internal and external audits
• Preparing VAT returns and ensuring financial compliance
• Helping strengthen financial controls across the business

About The Business

• A successful manufacturing group of companies
• Well respected in their specialised field
• They have built a collaborative and innovative culture, and they truly value their people and reward those who go the extra mile