Finance Business Partner

Ultra Precision Control Systems (PCS) are looking for a Finance Business Parter to join the Finance Function. Reporting to the Financial Planning and Business Partnering Leader, the successful candidate will be a key member of the FPA&A and Business Partnering team. We are looking for someone who is strong dealing with financials, accounting, with excellent communication skills.

The purpose of the role is to support the Financial Planning and Business Partnering Leader in the design and delivery of impactful finance business partnering to all functions, across the PCS UK, PCS US and CEMS businesses. This role will have a sizeable commercial angle to it, with the individual expected to help generate meaningful value within the business. This will incorporate developing a deep understanding of the financial data driving the reporting by ensuring the accuracy of the data and implementing improvements to either the data or the processes driving the data where required.

This role is ideal for someone with experience in operational/manufacturing/engineering accounting who wants a broad, wide-reaching role, requiring both technical expertise and honed communication skills. The preferred candidate will be experienced, able to adapt to change, and someone who enjoys working in a dynamic fast paced environment. This role will suit someone with a strong work ethic and who is looking to make an immediate impact on an exciting robust PE backed company.

Responsibilities:

• Support the Financial Planning and Business Partnering Leader to design and deliver impactful finance business partnering across PCS UK, PCS US and CEMS businesses
  
  
• Working as a team driving consistency of approach across all aspects of PCS and CEMS
  
  
• Working with Engineering and Operations, providing day to day business partnering support, being a key member of their functional management team, offering finance support and guidance
  
  
• Embed key performance metrics into the business, including labour utilisation, efficiency, absorption, standard costs and inventory turns
  
  
• Working with the operational teams in the creation of meaningfuand budgets
  
  
• Partner with budget holders to ensure robust cost control to deliver business targets
  
  
• Identify opportunities to make improvements to IFS for capture of data, improvement of processes, creation of robust master data etc
  
  
• Provide ad hoc analysis and project support as required
  
  Required Skills & Experience:
  
  
• A qualified or near qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA or ACA) is highly desirable
  
  
• The desired candidate will have experience within an operational/manufacturing/engineering finance team having previously held similar positions
  
  
• Able to quickly build strong relationships with key stakeholders
  
  
• Well-developed understanding of the Engineering and Operational functional environments including teams such as Supply Chain, Stores, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality etc
  
  
• Able to create high quality and commercially meaningful outputs, including robust audit trail, process notes etc
  
  
• Knowledge of Integrated ERP’S, specifically IFS (desirable)
  
  
• Experience within a Defence or Aerospace environment (desirable)