Finance Business Partner

4 weeks ago


Scarborough, United Kingdom Alexander-Dennis Full time

**Finance Business Partner**

Location - Scarborough

**Competitive package + half day on Fridays**

More than half of the buses that you see on the roads in the UK are made by Alexander Dennis, with over 3.5 million passengers a day in London alone are making a journey on one of our buses. Globally, there’s over 25,000 people every minute, of every day using our products. That’s a lot of responsibility we have for keeping the world moving.

At Alexander Dennis we design, engineer, build and support a range of market leading buses and coaches. Our turnover has tripled in the past ten years and as part of the NFI Group, we are the world’s leading independent bus and coach company, with nearly 9,000 colleagues working diligently to revolutionise public transportation. As part of this, we are looking for a **Finance Business Partner** to join our team and based from **Scarborough**.

As the Finance Business Partner, you will work closely with the local operations team to drive improvements in labour, materials, overheads and inventory metrics. You willprovide value added commentary and information to support the Management Accountant. Collecting and analysing data to understand cost of business activities, supporting the operations team on a daily basis and providing leadership in a variety of improvement projects.

**Why join**:

- You’ll have an interesting and technically challenging workload from day one, working
cross functionally with a range of internal and external stakeholders globally.
- With your energy and passion, you will have the opportunity to showcase your new ideas and different ways of working.
- On top of a competitive base salary and pension, you will also have a half day every Friday, giving you that much needed work-life-balance. Our standard working hours for our Scarborough site are 07:30-16:45 Monday to Thursday with a 11:30am finish on a Friday.
- Alongside improving your Accounting skills, you will also gain exposure to other parts of the business, in turn enhancing your future career prospects.
- We will support you with coaching and development with the tools and techniques you will need to succeed.

**About you**:

- Due to the technical nature of your role, it is essential that you a qualified accountant (CA, CIMA, ACCA) along with a demonstrable track record of success in a similar role as defined in this advert.
- Ideally your experience will be from another Manufacturing or operational environment, however we would be interested in those from other similarly complex businesses.
- Alongside your core accounting skills, you will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- You should be able to demonstrable an ability to work effectively within a team, meet required deadlines and communicate up and down the organisation with confidence.
- Demonstrable experience of preparing financial statements and extracting information from financial systems.
- Inquisitive by nature, you will have first class analytical and problem-solving skills, always looking for new and better ways of doing things.
- Finally, you will be highly IT literate, being a competent user of Microsoft Office in particular Excel. You should also be comfortable with Finance Consolidation packages and ERP systems. Experience with Hyperion and Syspro is an advantage but not essential.

**About your new role**:

- Financial business partner to site General Manager
- Integral member of site leadership team
- Identify and drive proactive cost avoidance activities.
- Provide timely and relevant KPIs to identify and promptly eradicate any issues that adversely affect the delivery of financial goals: Manufacturing Variance, Labour Variance, Materials Variance, Overhead, Cash, Other Direct/Indirect Costs
- Identify key areas for improvement, agree with management team and drive to deliver agreed goals and objectives.
- Support the Management Accountant in preparing and adding value to the monthly site pack; ensuring key issues are understood by the site team and remedied effectively and efficiently.
- Support the Inventory controls and reporting at the site, whilst ensuring accuracy of stock in line with the ICFR requirements.

**Next steps**:
If this sounds like you, and you’re interested in coming ‘aboard’, then we would love to hear from you. Alongside uploading your CV, please share a short covering letter detailing why you’re interested and why we should hire you
- Recommend a Friend is applicable for this role.

As this role is unlikely to meet UKVI criteria for sponsorship under the skilled worker route, you will be required to have the right of work in the UK from the proposed commencement date.


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