Senior Finance Manager - Supply Chain

Responsible to:  Head of Finance - Supply Chain Logistics

Department:  Finance (Supply Chain)

Location:    Bury, Gtr Manchester.  BL9 8RR

Operational Environment:

The Senior Finance Manager role will form part of the Supply Chain finance team, responsible for managing (Opex budgetary setting & rigorous cost control) the UK and European supply chain expenditure as well as reporting on and ensuring standard best practise financial disciplines across the wider JD Group Facias Supply Chains (NAM/APAC/MIG/ISRG). It is essential to be able to influence and manage teams remotely, ensuring that all teams engage fully and work in collaboration to the set Group Supply Chain goals and objectives.

In addition, the individual must create and manage strong business relationships across all Business Units, Partners and Suppliers to ensure service levels and costs meet set KPIs and budgets as a minimum. Continuous improvement is the standard way of working within the Supply Chain Team. This role reflects the importance of managing expenditure whilst delivering exceptional service to our Customers. It will require exemplary inter personnel and contract management skills as well as fostering a culture of Partnership with all. 

This role will be responsible for part managing a direct expenditure of £400m+ across UK and Europe as well as budgetary setting and reporting across other geographies where required. Detailed analytics skills coupled with the ability to translate this analysis into clear action plans and recommendations are non-negotiable.

An attitude to controlling expenditure that has ‘it is my money’ as the mantra should be second nature.

Role Overview:

The purpose of this role is to collate, manage and challenge financial plans. Setting and managing the UK and European budgets will require working with Supply Chain peers, having a fundamental understanding of the key cost drivers and service delivery metrics ensuring the best-in-class processes and reporting can be adopted across all other JD global facias, or vice versa from these facias.

Continual improvement, identifying and deploying any financial analytics packages would be how the role evolves from a process point of view.

Key Duties/Responsibilities:

• Business partnering with key business units; to interpret performance and provide analytical insight
• Advanced skills in building financial models for data-driven decision-making
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to anticipate and interpret stakeholder requirements
• To produce monthly management accounts, variance analysis and subsequent Board reports and commentary to Management

• Budgeting and forecasting for the DC site(s) with continuous analysis of financial changes
• Generate weekly and monthly performance reports to deadlines
• Facilitate the root cause analysis of spend/budgets to support the operations function
• To build strong working relationships with the central finance team and operational management
• To act as day-to-day point of contact for all Logistics Finance enquiries on site
• The ability to challenge non-finance professionals both day-to-day and in SLT meetings

Values/Behaviours

• Integrity - Consistently demonstrates integrity and high standards of work; Acts professionally with an honest and fair approach
• Teamwork - Communicates effectively at all levels; Responds to internal / external customer needs in a timely and effective manner; Works collaboratively, always showing respect to colleagues
• Entrepreneurial approach - Is bold and passionate about the organisation, its products, services and its people; Experiments, takes risks and makes it happen; If there’s a better way, find it
• Accountability - Is responsible for their actions; Takes ownership of decisions and outcomes

Skills/Experience/Knowledge Needed:

• Qualified accountant (CIMA/ ACA/ ACCA)
• Good communication skills both written and verbal required as role will liaise directly with Senior Managers and functional Directors

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