Finance Business Partner

Ready to shape the financial future of a leading multi-site manufacturing business?
We’re looking for a commercially minded and results-driven **Operations Finance Business Partner** to be the bridge between finance and operations. This is your opportunity to deliver insights that directly impact business performance, partner with senior leaders across the UK, and drive meaningful improvements in a fast-paced, high-growth manufacturing environment.

**About the Role**

We are looking for a proactive and commercially focused **Operations Finance Business Partner** to join our team based at our new start-of-the-art facility at the i54 Business Park in Wolverhampton. In this pivotal role, you’ll bring clarity, insight, and financial expertise to our multi-brand, multi-site manufacturing operations. You will play a crucial part in driving operational performance, supporting strategic objectives, and ensuring accurate, timely financial reporting that informs key business decisions.

This is a Full Time - Permanent Position - Travel Required

**What You will Be Doing**:
**Operations Support**
- Partner with manufacturing sites to deliver operational finance reporting needs
- Collaborate with stakeholders to measure KPIs and understand performance drivers
- Support manufacturing teams in cost control and adherence to forecast

**Month-End Processes**
- Complete month-end close efficiently and accurately, including account reconciliations and transaction reviews
- Produce clear, timely financial statements to support decision-making

**Year-End Processes**
- Lead year-end close activities, including reconciliations and statutory reporting
- Support standard cost revaluations and multi-site stocktakes
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements

**Additional Duties**
- Produce accurate forecasts and communicate their impact on profitability
- Prepare and submit Capital Expenditure Requests
- Identify process improvement opportunities and resolve operational finance issues

**What You Will Already Have**:
**Experience**
- Proven success in an operational finance role within a manufacturing environment
- Track record of influencing, motivating, and collaborating across teams
- Experience delivering high-quality reporting to tight deadlines

**Skills**
- Fully qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA) with at least 5 years’ post-qualification experience
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- High proficiency in MS Office, ERP, and reporting systems
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Strong presentation and stakeholder management abilities

**Attributes**
- Assertive and confident in challenging the status quo
- Energetic, engaging, and results-driven
- Self-motivated and able to work independently
- Flexible with the ability to manage multiple priorities
- Willingness to travel to UK sites as required

**Our Core Competencies**
- Cultivates Innovation - Always remain curious
- Active Learner - Take every opportunity to grow capability
- Collaborates - Share knowledge and use your network
- Plans and Aligns - Make it relevant, make it purposeful

**Why work for us**:
At Fortune Brands, **We Work Together, Think Big, and Learn Fast**. You’ll be empowered to make decisions, lead with creativity, and shape experiences that leave a lasting impression on our clients. Our values go beyond buzzwords—they guide everything we do.

We reward our employees not just for the big headline results we reward our teams for how you have positively contributed to the business and that isn’t always defined by hitting a financial target.

We have a pay for performance culture and reward annually on results. In an ever-changing environment its key that you are a curious and nimble learner. We succeed as a team so the ability to collaborate is essential. And to continue to grow and continually challenge you need to ensure you are able to both plan and align so we are all pulling in the same direction.

**The Benefits Bit**:

- 33 days holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Annual Incentive Plan Bonus Structure
- Life Assurance
- Health & Wellbeing Programme, including health cash plan and employee assistance
- Pension Plan
- High St Reward Scheme
- Refer a Friend Programme
- Free Parking
- Frequent Technology User Free Eye Care
- Flexible working model
- Employee Recognition Programme
- And as an employer who values you, you will be welcomed with open arms and supported to succeed.

**Our Hiring Process**:
If you’re a commercially focused finance professional who thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced manufacturing environment and wants to make a measurable impact, we’d love to hear from you.

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