Finance Director

Job description / Role

Leadership
- Provide leadership to the local Finance team in all areas of controlling, financial management and analysis
- Management of strong operational performance of the local team
- Work in strong partnership with JV partner and their finance teams

Operations
- Assist in developing and implementing standard costing system. Raise local financing and also roll out the internal controls environment to JV
- Calculate, verify and explain major production variances
- Monitor and control all Capex projects, requests and monthly progress reporting
- Monthly operation reporting in company format
- Participate and lead monthly analysis with European Operations team
- Monthly Production Forecasting
- Annual Budget setting
- Calculation of Labour and Overhead absorption rates
- Verification of Standard Cost and Bill of Material accuracy
- Support the work of the Operations team

Commercial
- Weekly sales reporting in company format
- Improve existing margin analysis by customer/region/product
- Verify customer pricing decisions
- Ensure accuracy of monthly sales forecasting
- Improve link between Commercial forecasts and Product sourcing
- Monitor warranty expenditure by product/region
- Develop annual budgets
- Support the work of the Commercial team

Finance
- Help the Finance Manager in preparation of monthly accounts
- Monthly reporting of final Trial Balance into Hyperion HFM
- Monthly review of major Balance sheet provisions and accruals
- Provide provisional sign off data as part of month end process
- Implementation of an internal controls system in accordance to company policy and the local treasury act

Forecasting
- Coordinate monthly P&L forecasting procedure by linking Commercial forecasting with Sourcing and Operational requirements
- Establishing and forecasting SG&A costs

Requirements

- Bachelors Degree standard qualification
- Qualified Accountant from a recognised Institute
- Minimum 8 years experience of which 5 must be within a leadership position, must have strong financial reporting and analysis skills and worked ideally within a manufacturing company
- A “can do” attitude, comfortable in a fast changing and challenging environment, work on own initiative
- Change orientated
- Operational - Be prepared to get involved in building the business and the accounting systems
- Pleasant, positive and approachable demeanour
- Be prepared to travel
- Strong systems/IT skills
- Building relationship skills / influencing and negotiation skills
- Planning and organising skills - ability to manage a number of tasks in a timely manner
- Commercial understanding and acumen
- Strong proven leadership skills (coaching, driving, setting goals/objectives)

About the Company

The McNair Partnership is a specialist executive search firm providing a range of recruitment solutions to global industry. Using traditional and proprietary search methods, our team of recruitment experts have unrivalled market intelligence across a variety of industry sectors. We have successfully searched and recruited top-tier candidates for jobs in Financial Services, Energy, Construction, hospitality and General Commerce throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, over the last 21 years.

We are the trusted recruitment partners of some of the most successful businesses and brands, large and small, delivering effective search, selection, and Interim services.