Senior Finance Business Partner Operations

at  Masonite

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Job Title: Senior Finance Business Partner Operations
Purpose of the Role
We are recruiting a Senior Finance Business Partner to become an integral part of the Interior Operations Finance Team, providing support the Leadership Team as well as wider Operations and Finance Teams. The overall purpose of the role is to provide professional financial expertise, insight, and support across Masonite Europe (Interior) with accurate and timely financial performance information and analysis, to enable delivery of Masonite business plans. Promote effective financial management and informed business decision making.

Main responsibilities

• Manage one member of Ops Finance Team
• Business partner with Senior non-financial stakeholders, supporting with detailed analysis of financial and KPI reports. Drive meaningful insights to advise and influence stakeholders’ decision-making to maximise profit.
• Working with Operational Managers to challenge variance analysis and drive efficiencies.
• Lead in the preparation of monthly, quarterly forecasts, as well as annual budgets.
• Continual communication with cost centre heads to analyse actuals and forecasting predictions.
• Monitoring and querying management account packs focusing on driving profitability and performance.
• Improve the impact and understanding of financial reporting on business performance by providing analysis and delivering insight linking financials to business strategy.
• Ensure reporting is delivered with quality in a timely manner, accurately ensuring a framework of controls and reconciliations exists to underpin the whole data set.
• Manage and develop the reporting inputs, engaging with the local Finance Teams to deliver a first-class end-to-end finance service.
• Ad hoc, proactive investigation, reports, capital proposals and financial propositions relevant to business/ function strategy and performance

Qualifications & experience

• At least five years of post-qualified experience in relevant positions.
• Strong manufacturing and operational reporting experience.
• Analytical background.
• Strong understanding of financial management and reporting, financial controls and processes, implementation, and governance
• Proven ability to build relationships cross functionally.
• Experience in maintaining standard costing systems, analysing variances, and updating business ERP’s.

Skills & attributes

• Advanced Excel skills with the ability to extract and interpret key information from large data sets.
• Analytical mindset – able to interpret data and produce meaningful insight.
• Time management and prioritisation in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills and able to demonstrate the ability to engage with and influence stakeholders.
• Comfortable in preparing detailed financial and performance models to aid decision making.
• Verbal and written presentation skills – present findings and influence decision.
• Desire to get involved with the business and not just run finance from spreadsheets.
• Continuous improvement mentality and ability to drive change.

Benefits

• Employee Pension
• Westfield Health Cash Plan
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Long Service Awards
• Bonus
• 28 Days Holiday

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• Manage one member of Ops Finance Team
• Business partner with Senior non-financial stakeholders, supporting with detailed analysis of financial and KPI reports. Drive meaningful insights to advise and influence stakeholders’ decision-making to maximise profit.
• Working with Operational Managers to challenge variance analysis and drive efficiencies.
• Lead in the preparation of monthly, quarterly forecasts, as well as annual budgets.
• Continual communication with cost centre heads to analyse actuals and forecasting predictions.
• Monitoring and querying management account packs focusing on driving profitability and performance.
• Improve the impact and understanding of financial reporting on business performance by providing analysis and delivering insight linking financials to business strategy.
• Ensure reporting is delivered with quality in a timely manner, accurately ensuring a framework of controls and reconciliations exists to underpin the whole data set.
• Manage and develop the reporting inputs, engaging with the local Finance Teams to deliver a first-class end-to-end finance service.
• Ad hoc, proactive investigation, reports, capital proposals and financial propositions relevant to business/ function strategy and performanc