Finance Manager - Operations

Location: melbourne
Salary: Salary dependant on candidate experience
Job Type: temporary
Contact: Katie Newman
About the Company
Our client is a leading food manufacturer with sites across regional Victoria and a head office in the CBD. It’s a fast-paced business where every day brings something different. This is a 12-month fixed-term contract with a hybrid model and requires travel to the regional manufacturing sites. 

About the role
Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager – Operations, you will business partner with site operations, working closely with the site leadership and manufacturing teams. You'll business partner closely with the operations team, costing and commercial teams. 

Responsibilities:
  • Analyse and report on manufacturing variances, including daily and weekly material usage variance (MUV), find the drivers and feed results back to site
  • Work with the costing team to review and update BOMs and improve costing accuracy
  • Manage site P&L lines, including direct labour (utilisation, efficiencies, overtime, casual and contract labour), R&M, fixed salaries, utilities, cleaning and testing
  • Deliver weekly reporting and forecasts on a 4-4-5 calendar, including MUV, labour costs and the month-end outlook
  • Lead month-end close tasks, including journals, ledger close and balance sheet reconciliations
  • Prepare forecasts and budgets with site stakeholders, including presentation packs
  • Work with continuous improvement teams to quantify savings and track them through the P&L
  • Support business cases for capital projects and track their benefits after implementation
  • Report on inventory balances and cycle count outcomes, making sure accounting policies and controls are followed
  • Streamline and standardise reporting to give the operations team better insights
About you
  • CA or CPA qualified with 5+ years of manufacturing finance experience
  • Manufacturing is essential, with FMCG experience as a bonus
  • Strong problem solver, comfortable with large data sets
  • Confident business partner to site leadership and working with manufacturing operations teams
  • SAP experience preferred but not essential
  • Some monthly regional VIC travel is required
  • Available immediately or a very short notice period
How to apply
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