Job Vacancy Details
Plant Finance Manager
Manufacturing
Oswestry
Permanent ⁄ £40000 - £45000
Updated August 13, 2008
The role will be part of the senior management team on site. The site Finance Manager will work proactively with the General Manager and others on site to continuously improve the performance of the plant while also ensuring that proper financial controls are in place and that all financial reporting is timely and accurate.
Scope of the role:
- Proactively analyse all financial reporting output to identify important trends and issues and to ensure that appropriate actions are put in place
- Manage the budget and quarterly forecasting processes for the site
- Development of site reporting systems in particular utilisation of SAP
- Ensure maximisation of capital expenditure
- Ensure proper controls are in place to manage site overhead spend of c.£14m p.a.
- Ensure proper monitoring and wastage control measures are in place for site materials throughput of c.£140m p.a.
- Advise and guide site general manager on all financial matters
- Develop finance staff on site to be able to provide full cover for finance manager role
- Actively participate as part of the senior management team in the development of the site
Who we're looking for
- Operationally focussed finance professional
- Qualified Accountant
- Ideally from a food manufacturing background
- Ability to be a strong and senior member of the Senior Management Team
- Ideally SAP experienced but not absolutely necessary
- Ability to quickly grasp the commerciality of a particular issue or decision and advise accordingly
- Experience of financial management on a site with a large value of stockholding
- Able to demonstrate previous experience of successful financial reporting system development
- Strong Interpersonal skills with ability to communicate effectively with others from all levels within the business
- Previous experience in presentation of and post investment analysis on capital expenditure projects
About our client
Milk Link is one of the UK's largest integrated dairy businesses with a network of nine processing facilities which have the capacity to process 1.3 billion litres of milk into a wide range of added-value products. Milk Link completed the 100% acquisition of The Cheese Company in 2006. The Cheese Company is the UK's largest cheese manufacturer, producing over 20 varieties of award winning cheddars, Blue Stiltons and British regional cheeses for the retail, food service and ingredients sectors. The company employs over 800 staff across four cheese and dairy processing facilities and its consumer packing facility at Oswestry, Shropshire.
The Cheese Company is a leading cheese processing and packing business, and can supply cheese in a wide variety of formats, shapes and sizes.
The purpose-built cheese packing operation at Oswestry runs around the clock packing in excess of 40,000 tonnes per year of the nation's favourite cheeses into a range of consumer-friendly formats. The site, which employs around 350 staff, also serves as the central distribution hub for The Cheese Company and handles in excess of 8 million cases of cheese per year. Oswestry takes great pride in delivering service levels in excess of 99.5% to the UK and worldwide markets.
What's on offer
Up to £45,000, plus car and benefits package coupled with the opportunity to join one of the UK's most progressive dairy companies.
Michael Page Contact
For further info, apply or phone on +44 (0) 121 634 6920.
Job Ref: 12955465
Your application will be sent to Jamie Rodden.
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