Part Time Finance Business Partner

Manufacturing Finance Business Partner - Part time Position Type: Temporary - Part-Time Requisition ID: 39902 Manufacturing Finance Business Partner About McCain. At McCain, we're feeding the world: from French fries to Smiles, we contribute to the important role food plays in people's lives. That's why we're dedicated to ensuring our core values-Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality-shine through every day. We believe that we can work together, along with our business and community partners, to bring sustainable growth and positive change today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. Your Life - we're here to help you fulfil your potential, flourish, and thrive in work and life. Your Impact - we want you to make a meaningful, lasting impact for you, for your colleagues, and for the business. In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy. We're looking for a proactive and commercially focused Management Accountant to join our Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) Finance Team. Acting as a key business partner to our Plant Operations and Engineering teams, you'll provide critical financial insight that supports efficient manufacturing performance, drives continuous improvement, and strengthens our financial controls. This is a 6 month FTC on a part time basis of around 24 to 30-hours per week, of which 2/3-days per week on-site with 1-day Hybrid working. There will be some requirements to travel, especially in the first few months whilst familiarising yourself with the business and the role, at times you'll also be required to travel to our HQ in Scarborough, North Yorkshire at time. Act as a Finance Business Partner to Plant Managers and Engineering teams, providing insight and challenge. Attend regular plant performance and review meetings, offering financial support and recommendations. Prepare and analyse financial and management information for the manufacturing plants. Lead plant month-end close activities, including cost and variance analysis and performance interpretation. Report weekly risks and opportunities across plants, highlighting required mitigation actions. Validate and assess capital investment proposals and cost-saving initiatives. Suggest improvements to financial controls and contribute to streamlining reporting processes. Deliver ad hoc financial analysis for manufacturing projects and capital expenditure. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success. Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together. Reporting to the Senior Finance Manufacturing Business Partner / Director of Finance for Manufacturing, you'll be part of a small Finance and plant team and will demonstrate your flexible and challenging and dynamic approach and mindset. Be flexible and challenging in your approach working with a small Finance Team Responsible for the completion of weekly financial statements, closing month end reports, and reporting results, in a clear and easily understandable format for the wider plant team. Complete detailed Annual Budgets including both financial and operational metrics. Responsible for quarterly reforecasting of usage and rate variances for ingredients, labour and energy etc. Complete Overhead Analysis and Account Reconciliations Have regular Financial Performance Reviews with Operational Teams Create costing of New Product Developments with the wider plant teams Attend Plant Operational Reviews You'll be able to demonstrate a challenging and supportive mindset to think big and plan ahead, with the ability to demonstrate our leadership principles with how you are supportive, can challenge and can see the bigger picture to enable supporting the leadership and wider team. You'll also demonstrate your ability to be able to explain financial forecasting and numbers using non-financial language. Qualifications & Skills: Essential: Qualified by Experience or working towards/completed CIMA (or equivalent). Ideally a background in manufacturing and a fast-paced environment. Comfortable working across departments, with confident communication skills to both financial and operational teams Systems knowledge of SAP with integrated Standard Costing or similar system experience Proficient in Microsoft Office. Proven ability to implement effective financial controls. Strong business partnering skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively and collaboratively. Experience analysing and reporting on financial performance. Able to analyse, understand, interpret and present financial results to various levels across the business. You'll be either based at our Whittlesey plant in Peterborough. With about 400 employees on site, we're one of our largest plants across the GB business. Our Whittlesey plant is where we make our famous French Fries as well as our chilled products, such as our Shake Shake Fries. Or you could be based at our Wombourne plant in Staffordshire. An excellent pension where we will pay double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your pay Flexible holidays - where you can buy & sell up to 5 days holiday per year Optional health cash plan Cycle to work scheme 'Chips In' Volunteering Day Off - to make a positive impact to the competitiveness, resilience, and long-term development of McCain communities across the globe And of course, being part of a Global business there are great opportunities to shine/thrive should you wish to relocate in the future. We have an ambitious 5-year growth plan that presents development & progression opportunities for those who seek it out. We are McCain: this statement is about our power collectively and our importance individually-your impact is a significant part of the business. Here, you have the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive while being yourself. McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain's Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. Job Family: Finance Division: GB Finance Department: ISC Finance - Manufacturing Location(s): GB - United Kingdom : England : Whittlesey || GB - United Kingdom : England : Birmingham* || GB - United Kingdom : England : Coventry* || GB - United Kingdom : England : Peterborough || GB - United Kingdom : England : Wolverhampton || GB - United Kingdom : England : Wombourne Company: McCain Foods (G.