Your new company

Hays are working in partnership with a highly successful international manufacturing business to recruit a brand-new position to their existing finance team. We are seeking an experienced FP&A Analyst or Finance Analyst to support a newly formed team, with the purpose of delivering a comprehensive reporting function across multiple sites. This company is a market leader in its industry and produces a wide range of products across Europe.

Your new role

The main purpose of the role will be to support the FP&A Manager in delivering weekly and monthly reporting insights around factory KPI's. You will be producing variance analysis as well as annual planning and forecasting information for management, as well as developing and implementing analytical standards for reporting and KPI modelling in conjunction with operational teams.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Responsible for providing weekly calculation and variance analysis of key metrics of the manufacturing site, including but not limited to, production volumes, labour costs, recoveries, fixed costs and transfer prices and their impact on the financial statements
• Review month-end report & understand the impact of drivers on budget/forecast
• Responsible for assimilating data from multiple systems and stakeholders to calculate results and identify trends for key KPIs, actuals, budgets and forecasts
• Enhance data governance processes by improving the quality and integrity of data collected, analysis performed, and reports generated
• Run simulations of various “what-if” scenarios using insight and critical thinking to evaluate and recommend solutions
• Assist in developing forecasting models
• Support the FP&A Manager in producing routine and ad hoc financial models to support leadership, FBPs and FP&A Group in decision-making
• Facilitate standardisation and sharing of best practice across the Shared Finance team
• Contribute to continuous improvement of systems and processes
• Support automation and enterprise consolidation of data used in monthly, quarterly, and annual performance reports
• Ensure SOX control environment is maintained. Support all audit requests.

This is a full-time role, working Monday to Friday, on site in Lowestoft.

What you'll need to succeed

You will ideally be a fully or part-qualified accountant and have experience working in a similar FMCG, manufacturing or production business. Exposure to a manufacturing or supply chain environment would also be advantageous. You will have previous experience in a reporting and/or forecasting capacity and be able to operate in a fast-paced environment. You will have strong IT skills and be accustomed to using various reporting tools, ideally having a working knowledge of SAP. You will have excellent analytical and modelling skills as well as be able to communicate effectively with non-finance stakeholders.

What you'll get in return

You will receive a highly competitive salary, 25 day's annual leave (plus bank holidays), up to 12% annual bonus and a range of additional benefits.

What you need to do now

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