Finance Operations Manager

Job description

**Job Responsibilities:** - Assist in the preparation of accurate and timely monthly financial results in line with Group reporting requirements. - Provide robust variance analysis, bridges, and clear commentary to explain operational performance. - Ensure strong financial controls are maintained in compliance with internal policies and external regulatory requirements. - Support audit processes (internal and external), providing documentation and explanations as required. - Maintain and update standard costs for new and existing products, ensuring accuracy and timely communication of changes. - Execute and support the annual cost roll, including labour and overhead rate setting. - Support the legal entity URP calculation by reconciling intercompany purchase price variances - Provide cost estimates to support new product launches (NPL), pricing decisions, and business cases. - Monitor and analyse cost drivers, identifying opportunities for cost optimisation and efficiency improvements. - Analyse and report external purchase price variances (PPV) across materials and suppliers. - Maintain robust analysis of inventory, including Quarantined and restricted stock - Partner with Operations, Quality and Supply Chain teams to understand financial impacts of GMP-related issues (e.g. batch failures, scrap, deviations). - Oversee works order processes, including monitoring automatic closure of works orders, investigating and resolving exceptions, and ensuring accurate WIP and finished goods reporting - Work closely with Operations leadership to understand production plans, cost drivers, labour models, and performance metrics. - Support decision-making through financial insight on production efficiency, yield, and capacity utilisation. - Collaborate with offshore/shared service teams to ensure alignment, consistency, and knowledge transfer. - Attend and contribute to Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) meetings, ensuring financial alignment between supply, demand, and commercial strategy. - Support annual budgeting and monthly re-forecasting processes, including spend analysis, budget tracking and variance reporting and scenario modelling where required - Translate operational plans into financial forecasts, ensuring alignment across functions. - Support traceability and auditability of financial data related to production and inventory. - Drive continuous improvement in finance processes, systems, and reporting (e.g. automation, standardisation, reduction of manual interventions). - Support implementation and optimisation of SAP. - Provide support to the FP&A Manager and wider finance team as required. - Contribute to cross-functional projects (e.g. cost savings initiatives, system implementations, process improvements). - Undertake additional responsibilities in line with evolving business needs. **Core Competencies** - Drive for Results - Can be counted on to meet goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers. - Action Oriented - Gets thing done, whether alone or through other people; makes good on commitments and ensures that others do; does whatever is required for a project and follows through. - Time Management Able to plan and prioritise workload in order to meet deadline and achieve set goals - Customer Focus - Keeps customers in mind at all times and strives to address customer needs. Assists business partners and customers achieve their work goals via application of their own skills and knowledge; strives to provide consistent customer satisfaction. **Relevant Professional / Educational Background, Skills & Experience:** - Part Qualified Accountant (CA / CMA) - 4-8 years experience working in a multi-national manufacturing company, preferably in Pharma/FMCG industry - Hands with JDE and SAP ERP environment - Excellent numerical and spreadsheet skills - Strong communication and interpersonal skills - Capable of working on own initiative - Team player demonstrating maximum flexibility as required to complete key tasks