Financial Analyst (Business Partner), Co Antrim
Global Manufacturing | Competitive Package | Newly Created Role | Bonus | Healthcare | Flexible
Reed is partnered with a world leading manufacturing business in County Antrim, in the appointment of an experienced Finance Analyst (Finance Business Partner) on a permanent and full-time basis.
With 40 years' successful trading history, our client continues to press ahead with major expansion in 2025, making this an excellent time to join this thriving, market leading global business.
JOB SUMMARY: The role provides support for the day-to-day financial management across two sites. The Finance Analyst will act as a business partner, providing timely support, guidance, and business analytics to enable more rounded actions and to support continuous improvement and operations excellence across Operations, R&D, Commercial & Projects.
- Support R&D Projects
- Manage projects across the company, ensuring compliance against IFRS 15
- Management & gathering of business analytics across Operations, supporting leaders in their drive to measure against standards
- Support rolling monthly forecasts of variance
- Ensure reporting deadlines on the monthly cycle are hit, in a compliant and documented manner
- Support the Assistant Controller with the annual budget process for the factory operations
- Business partner to the Commercial Director to drive the reporting cycle across revenue & standard margin, using the latest business analytics tools, such as Power BI
- Support Payroll process, ensuring robust process controls within our current outsourced models.
- Responsible for the integrity and accuracy of the accounting and financial reporting
- Support cross-functional efforts with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, HR and others to drive efficiency and effectiveness in the organization through LEAN processes
- Maintain relationships with colleagues and explore and share best practices
- Ownership of continuous development across finance, in particular supporting supply chain across vendor management, material master management & inventory reconciliation
CRITERIA:
- ACCA, ACA, CIMA (or equivalent) qualified
- Minimum 4 years of experience in a financial role, post qualification
- Experience with financial management in manufacturing &/or working knowledge of project accounting on long term contracts is preferred
- Experience with financial statement preparation and related audits for statutory reporting highly preferred
- Experience with SAP as an ERP system & Power BI as a business analytics tool
- A must/pre-requisite is superior excel modelling skills
For more information and a full job description, please contact Laurence Jago at Reed Belfast or simply click ‘Apply'. Alternatively, you can contact me confidentially on LinkedIn.