Vacancy Type : Permanent

Location: North West, Manchester

Salary : Negotiable

Consultants Name : Zach Crawford

Consultants Email : zach.crawford@yourrecruitmentpartner.com

Consultants Contact number: 07355 346348

Description

Site Financial Controller (12 month FTC)

Location – Wigan
Salary – £based on experience plus bonus

About the company:
A global business with a large manufacturing site based in Wigan. Combination role involving people management, business partnering, commercial support, and more. Managing a team of 4. Business partnering with senior non-finance stakeholders. Translating data and insight into clear actions and supporting decision making. Ownership of end-to-end financial performance management for the site, ensuring high-quality reporting. Ensuring financial control & compliance, alongside owning audit readiness. Leading planning, budgeting & forecasting for the site. They are ideally looking to hire as a 12 month FTC initially, however permanent may also be considered.

Responsibilities include:
Financial Leadership & Business Partnering
• Set the direction for site finance, ensuring the right routines, insights and governance are in place to support the Site Leadership Team in delivering safety, quality, service and cost performance.
• Act as trusted advisor to the senior non-finance stakeholders, challenging constructively using facts and data and ensuring decisions are supported by robust analysis.
• Build financial understanding across the site by translating complex data into clear actions.
• Champion continuous improvement.
Operational Finance, Cost Control & Monthly Financial Reporting
• Own the site’s end-to-end financial performance management, ensuring high-quality reporting and review routines.
• Ensure timely and accurate month end close, including review of provisions, corrections, allocations and key judgements, and strong balance sheet ownership across the site.
• Oversee cost centre reporting and review meetings with operational and functional leads, ensuring the right level of insight, challenge and follow-through.
• Ensure robust commentary for key site reporting packs.
Budgeting & Forecasting
• Lead the site planning calendar for Finance, coordinating the annual planning cycle and monthly forecasting routines.
• Ensure strong scenario modelling and risk/opportunity management, proactively surfacing issues early and agreeing mitigation actions with the business.
Product Costing, Inventory & Working Capital Stewardship
• Provide governance over product costing processes at site.
• Oversee inventory controls and provisions (including Supply Chain Loss Provisions, blocked/obsolete stock and disposals/recharges), ensuring timely action and clear root-cause follow-up with Supply Chain and Operations.
• Ensure working capital levers are visible, measured and actively managed through clear routines.
Financial Compliance & Controls
• Ensure the site operates with strong financial stewardship and compliance with corporate financial policies, internal control requirements and regulatory expectations.
• Own audit readiness and lead responses to audit queries, ensuring documentation is accurate, timely and complete (including Annual Stock Take, fixed asset verification and other control activities).
• Ensure site finance processes are documented, maintained and continuously improved (process maps, SOPs, ways of working).
People Leadership & Team Development
• Lead, coach and develop the Site Finance Team, setting clear priorities, role clarity and development expectations, and ensuring effective coverage and succession planning.
• Create an environment where finance colleagues can grow their technical capability, business partnering skills, and confidence in challenging constructively

Skills/Qualifications required:
• ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified.
• Significant site-facing experience in manufacturing / FMCG or similar, including leadership responsibility.
• Good communication skills, capable of partnering non-finance stakeholders.
• Proven ability to translate complex analysis into clear decisions and actions with senior operational stakeholders; confident to challenge constructively using facts and data.
• A people leader who coaches performance, builds capability, and creates clarity of ownership across the team.

For more information around this role or others, or to send over your CV, please contact zach.crawford@yourrecruitmentpartner.com