Finance Business Partner

Accountable Recruitment are delighted to be working with a leading manufacturing company based in Wrexham to recruit an experienced Finance Business Partner. Working with the site leadership team you will provide hands-on financial support and commercial insight across the business.

This is a critical tole requiring strong analytical capability, high-quality financial reporting, and the ability to influence operational and commercial decision-making.

The successful candidate will be comfortable operating at both a strategic and detailed level, balancing business partnering with significant involvement in core finance activities such as reporting, forecasting, and variance analysis.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with operational and commercial stakeholders to understand business drivers, risks, and opportunities.
• Influence decision-making through clear, concise financial analysis
• Support the Management Team with regular performance updates and ad-hoc commercial analysis
• Prepare, analyse and present monthly management accounts, including detailed variance analysis against budget and forecast
• Lead budgeting and forecasting activities, including annual budgets, periodic forecasts and long-range planning
• Deliver accurate, timely reporting with clear commentary explaining financial performance and key trends
• Identify performance improvement opportunities and contribute to cost control and margin enhancement initiatives
• Produce and interpret detailed operational and financial reports, ensuring accuracy and consistency
• Analyse manufacturing and operational data to support productivity, efficiency and investment decisions
• Ensure financial data is robust, well-controlled and aligned with group standards and requirements
• Identify performance improvement opportunities and contribute to cost control and margin enhancement initiatives
• Support evaluation of capital expenditure, investment proposals and business cases
• Provide financial support for pricing, customer profitability and product margin analysis
• Work closely with cross-functional teams including Operations, Supply Chain and Commercial functions

Skills Required:

• CIMA, ACCA or ACA qualified, or suitably qualified by experience
• Manufacturing experience ideally within a multi-site, international environment
• Ability to influence senior stakeholder and communicate financial data to non-finance partners
• Commercial and operational experience
• Strong FP&A skills

Benefits:

• 26 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Bonus
• Hybrid and flexible working
• Health care, life insurance and death in service