Finance Business Partner

Package Description:

• Car allowance
• Bonus scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, plus each year you will have the option to buy and sell leave
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Wellbeing Scheme, provided through Health Shield, giving every colleague - and their dependents - unlimited access to GPs and counselling, as well as cash back on a wide range of health and wellbeing treatment
• Employee Support to include Life Assurance and critical illness pay
• 24/7 Colleague Assistance Programme and Financial Wellbeing Support - access to affordable loans, savings accounts, advanced earned pay, and financial education via salary finance
• Online savings- major retailers, utilities, entertainment plus many more!

About Our Opportunity

We are looking for a Finance Business Partner to support our regional operations, commercial, and transport teams with high-quality financial analysis, insight, and guidance. This role is critical in aligning financial strategies with business objectives, providing key stakeholders with the information they need to drive operational efficiency and commercial success.

Working closely with the Regional Director - South, Senior Finance Business Partner, and Area General Managers, you will act as a trusted advisor, offering financial expertise to influence decision-making. A key focus of this role is monitoring landed costs, identifying cost-saving opportunities, and implementing strategies to improve overall financial performance.

This position is a regional role and requires travel across all of our depots within our Southern region; specifically South East, London, South Coast and East Anglia.

What You Will Be Doing

As a Finance Business Partner, you will analyse financial results, reviewing volume, margin, and overhead performance to identify trends and recommend actionable strategies. You will present financial and operational performance insights to leadership, highlighting risks and opportunities that impact the business.

You will play a key role in the preparation of annual budgets and periodic forecasts, ensuring alignment with business goals and securing commitment from relevant teams. Collaborating with operational and commercial departments, you will evaluate investments, projects, and initiatives to drive profitability and efficiency.

Process improvement is a core part of the role, including refining financial reporting capabilities and supporting the training of regional staff on key financial systems such as Trade 2, D365, and MRO. You will oversee daily, weekly, and monthly financial routines, including:

• Reviewing daily operational reports to verify margin transactions, haulage, and confirmations, ensuring accuracy and working closely with depot, commercial, and transport managers.
• Conducting stock reconciliations and reviewing stock transfer trends.
• Overseeing stock takes, monitoring production data entry, and ensuring financial accuracy.
• Managing inter-depot price and weight confirmations, ensuring timely completion and investigating discrepancies.

In addition, you will support month-end and year-end closure processes in partnership with the accounting team, ensuring financial accuracy and compliance. You will also produce management account reports at depot, area, and regional levels, providing meaningful insights to operations, commercial, and transport teams.

About You

To succeed in this role, you will be a fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with a strong academic background. Experience in a similar industry, such as manufacturing or industrial sectors, would be highly beneficial. You should have an analytical mindset, a commercial approach, and a keen ability to identify value and cost improvement opportunities.

Building strong working relationships across departments is essential, as is a proactive and results-driven approach. You will be detail-oriented, highly organised, and capable of managing multiple priorities effectively. Strong problem-solving skills, strategic thinking, and the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels will be key to success in this role.

Special Requirements

A full UK driving licence is required, as well as the willingness to travel to depot locations across the South of England.

This is a fantastic opportunity to shape financial strategy and contribute to the success of our business. If you are looking for a role where you can make a real impact, we would love to hear from you.

Who we are:

'Our purpose is to create a future where the materials we use don't need to be extracted from the planet.'

At EMR, we give new life to unwanted materials. Every year, we recycle 10 million tonnes of metals and plastics, saving 19 million tonnes of carbon from entering the Earth's atmosphere, diverting waste from landfill and protecting resources and habitats.

We couldn't do any of this without our team members. In return for all they do, we do everything we can to create an environment of belonging, value, support and growth.

We're proud to have achieved Great Place To Work status, but it's about so much more than a badge. It's about being recognised by our people for the continuous work we do to do better for them:

'The people who work here are from varied backgrounds and have a variety of beliefs, all of which are accepted and respected.'

'I'm encouraged to keep a healthy work-life balance so that I can be performing at my best.'

'I've been supported every step of the way in my career progression.'

'EMR offers a fantastic and inclusive environment; collaboration across the whole business, humility and hard work.'

If you want to be part of something bigger than yourself, have a role that really makes a difference and work with likeminded people towards the same purpose, click the link to apply.

Recruitment Agencies

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