Graduate Finance Business Partner

_**Are you a graduate looking for an exciting career opportunity in Finance?**_

Due to an internal promotion we are recruiting for a **Graduate Finance Business Partner. **This role is working at British Gypsum, part of Saint-Gobain Interior Solutions and the Saint-Gobain group. You will be based at our world class production facility in Kirby Thore.

Join our Graduate Community where you’ll undertake a combination of on-the-job training, practical skills development, coaching and mentoring and get to share your thinking and ideas.

We will fully support you throughout your studying and you will gain a professional qualification, this really is an amazing opportunity to join a world class manufacturing organisation where you will have great progression opportunities and continuous support from our well-established team throughout your new career path along with the excellent flexible benefits package that we offer here at Saint-Gobain.

From the moment you start with us, you will be given real responsibility you’ll be working on real projects making a real impact from day one.

**What you will be doing**:
As a **Plant Finance Business Partner**, you will act as a trusted finance business partner to the local Plant Management team to enable them to make informed decisions for the sustainable improvement in the operational and financial performance of the plant.

To accurately report the financial and operational performance of the plant on a timely basis, ensuring all variances and other performance or cost control issues are identified, understood, and acted upon.

To ensure a strong level of internal control across all departments and processes at the plant in line with the SG ICRF.
- Build strong relationships with internal customers in the local Plant Operations teams
- Turn data into insights and communicate in a way that brings the numbers to life and ensures understanding.
- Ensures the month-end accounting processes in the plants are completed in accordance with the agreed timetable.
- Supports the local Plant Operations teams in preparing their local Budget plans, including production volumes and costs.
- Identifies financial performance trends and their operational root causes and proposes potential actions.
- Providing financial support and analysis to facilitate WCM and cost deployment.
- Undertaking any other duties as may be required by your line manager or the management team, consistent with the scope of the job.

**What we are looking for**:

- Relevant Degree or Accountancy Qualification (Finance/Accountancy degree or AAT Qualified)
- Intermediate or advanced Excel skills
- Excellent communication skills, able to deliver finance information to non-finance personnel.
- Highly organised, able to work under pressure and demonstrate ability to meet strict deadlines
- Leads by example and is confident working independently and as part of a team.
- Is comfortable working with complex data and has the curiosity and tenacity to drill down to the answers.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate and influence across different levels of the organisation.

At Saint-Gobain people matter to us, and we try to show that every day. As part of this, our aim is to create an enterprising and innovative working environment, where you have the opportunity to learn new skills, and develop your career. _**Did you know we have been awarded top UK & Global Employer 8 Years Running?**_

Our business is all about our people and making a difference to our customers by taking initiative and driving continuous improvement. We want you to focus on the work you enjoy most.

**Are Saint-Gobain Interior Solutions an inclusive employer?**

Saint-Gobain UK & Ireland is home to some of the best known and respected companies in the construction sector including British Gypsum, Isover, Weber and Pasquill. We manufacture and distribute materials and solutions, which are key ingredients in the wellbeing of each of us and the future of all.

We are an equal opportunities employer, we embrace diversity and are on a mission to make our organisation inclusive and accessible to all, we believe that working in a diverse business can be more enjoyable, teams can be more innovative, and make better decisions. We already employ many fantastic people from diverse backgrounds, but we still want to do more.

We want to be a business that you’ll be proud to work for; one that is committed to improving people’s daily life, being responsible, doing the right thing, and to preserving the environment by embedding sustainability in all our businesses.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Company pension

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person