Finance Operations Manager

Job Responsibilities:

• Assist in the preparation of accurate and timely monthly financial results in line with Group reporting requirements.
• Provide robust variance analysis, bridges, and clear commentary to explain operational performance.
• Ensure strong financial controls are maintained in compliance with internal policies and external regulatory requirements.
• Support audit processes (internal and external), providing documentation and explanations as required.
• Maintain and update standard costs for new and existing products, ensuring accuracy and timely communication of changes.
• Execute and support the annual cost roll, including labour and overhead rate setting.
• Support the legal entity URP calculation by reconciling intercompany purchase price variances
• Provide cost estimates to support new product launches (NPL), pricing decisions, and business cases.
• Monitor and analyse cost drivers, identifying opportunities for cost optimisation and efficiency improvements.
• Analyse and report external purchase price variances (PPV) across materials and suppliers.
• Maintain robust analysis of inventory, including Quarantined and restricted stock
• Partner with Operations, Quality and Supply Chain teams to understand financial impacts of GMP-related issues (e.g. batch failures, scrap, deviations).
• Oversee works order processes, including monitoring automatic closure of works orders, investigating and resolving exceptions, and ensuring accurate WIP and finished goods reporting
• Work closely with Operations leadership to understand production plans, cost drivers, labour models, and performance metrics.
• Support decision-making through financial insight on production efficiency, yield, and capacity utilisation.
• Collaborate with offshore/shared service teams to ensure alignment, consistency, and knowledge transfer.
• Attend and contribute to Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) meetings, ensuring financial alignment between supply, demand, and commercial strategy.
• Support annual budgeting and monthly re-forecasting processes, including spend analysis, budget tracking and variance reporting and scenario modelling where required
• Translate operational plans into financial forecasts, ensuring alignment across functions.
• Support traceability and auditability of financial data related to production and inventory.
• Drive continuous improvement in finance processes, systems, and reporting (e.g. automation, standardisation, reduction of manual interventions).
• Support implementation and optimisation of SAP.
• Provide support to the FP&A Manager and wider finance team as required.
• Contribute to cross-functional projects (e.g. cost savings initiatives, system implementations, process improvements).
• Undertake additional responsibilities in line with evolving business needs.

Core Competencies

• Drive for Results - Can be counted on to meet goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers.
• Action Oriented - Gets thing done, whether alone or through other people; makes good on commitments and ensures that others do; does whatever is required for a project and follows through.
• Time Management Able to plan and prioritise workload in order to meet deadline and achieve set goals
• Customer Focus - Keeps customers in mind at all times and strives to address customer needs. Assists business partners and customers achieve their work goals via application of their own skills and knowledge; strives to provide consistent customer satisfaction.

Relevant Professional / Educational Background, Skills & Experience:

• Part Qualified Accountant (CA / CMA)
• 4-8 years experience working in a multi-national manufacturing company, preferably in Pharma/FMCG industry
• Hands with JDE and SAP ERP environment
• Excellent numerical and spreadsheet skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Capable of working on own initiative
• Team player demonstrating maximum flexibility as required to complete key tasks