Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner.

Warrington £70-75,000 plus package and bonus.

Resourcery Group are proud to be exclusively partnering with a leading FMCG business in Warrington as they look to hire a Finance Business Partner. The Finance Business Partner will act as the financial partner to manufacturing, site operations, supply chain and procurement, owning product costing accuracy, inventory integrity and translating operational activity into a clear financial narrative that drives better decisions.

The role holds day to day ownership of the operations finance agenda and provides constructive challenge to site leadership on cost, yield, waste and productivity. 

Key Responsibilities

• Drive standard costing: Maintain accountability for the accuracy and annual update of factory standard costs, collaborating with Procurement and Operations to audit manufacturing routings and bills of materials.
• Manage operational P&L: Direct the month-end closing process for manufacturing and logistics, delivering deep-dive written analysis on yield performance, waste, scrap, labour efficiency, and overhead absorption.
• Oversee inventory governance: Lead the financial valuation, balance sheet reconciliation, and obsolescence provisioning for all stock categories, while enforcing rigorous cycle count policies and excise duty controls.
• Financialise operational metrics: Convert weekly and monthly plant KPIs—such as right-first-time rates, equipment downtime, and customer complaints—into clear, actionable financial outcomes.
• Partner site leadership: Serve as the dedicated financial co-pilot for the Warrington management team, providing robust commercial challenge during operational performance reviews.
• Lead financial planning: Coordinate the annual budgeting and rolling forecast cycles for plant conversion costs, headcount, site overheads, and capital allocations in line with corporate timelines.
• Evaluate capital investments: Construct robust business cases and investment appraisals for plant machinery and infrastructure, while conducting post-implementation reviews under Group guidance.
• Support procurement finance: Validate supplier savings initiatives and calculate total cost of ownership metrics to feed strategic data into central procurement analytics.
• Enable commercial decisions: Deliver precise cost-modelling inputs to support new product development pipeline gating, strategic pricing models, and commercial client tenders.

Key Requirements

• CIMA qualified, or ACCA / ACA equivalent
• Demonstrable business partnering experience with operations, supply chain and procurement stakeholders
• Strong management accounting, standard costing and variance analysis within a manufacturing environment.
• Inventory accounting and stock control
• Ability to translate financial data into a clear operational narrative for non-finance audiences.
• Strong control mindset and understanding of balance sheet integrity.
• Planning, prioritisation and the ability to manage competing site and group demands.