Job Description
Are you a confident and commercially minded finance professional with a passion for data-driven decision making?
Do you enjoy working closely with purchasing and operations teams to optimise spend and drive value? Are you an Excel expert who thrives on building complex dashboards, pivot tables, and financial models?
Our client, a global engineering manufacturer with a strong presence in Oxfordshire, is seeking a Finance Business Partner (Purchasing) to join their finance team. This is a fantastic opportunity for a proactive finance professional to step into a pivotal role, supporting purchasing and supply chain decision-making with robust financial insight.
The successful candidate will be responsible for providing meaningful analysis, delivering clear recommendations, and ensuring strong financial control across procurement activities. You will work with senior stakeholders to challenge assumptions, monitor supplier performance, and drive efficiencies across the supply chain.
Key Responsibilities:
Key Experience:
To apply, please send your CV along with details of your current salary and notice period.For a confidential conversation, contact Daniel Marlow on (phone number removed) or connect via LinkedIn: Daniel Marlow
Do you enjoy working closely with purchasing and operations teams to optimise spend and drive value? Are you an Excel expert who thrives on building complex dashboards, pivot tables, and financial models?
Our client, a global engineering manufacturer with a strong presence in Oxfordshire, is seeking a Finance Business Partner (Purchasing) to join their finance team. This is a fantastic opportunity for a proactive finance professional to step into a pivotal role, supporting purchasing and supply chain decision-making with robust financial insight.
The successful candidate will be responsible for providing meaningful analysis, delivering clear recommendations, and ensuring strong financial control across procurement activities. You will work with senior stakeholders to challenge assumptions, monitor supplier performance, and drive efficiencies across the supply chain.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with the Purchasing team to provide financial analysis and insight on supplier spend, pricing trends, and contract performance
- Build and maintain advanced Excel dashboards, models, and reports to support purchasing decisions
- Prepare detailed variance analysis, highlighting risks and opportunities across procurement activities
- Support supplier negotiations with accurate cost modelling and scenario planning
- Deliver monthly and quarterly reporting packs for senior management, focused on purchasing performance and cost control
- Identify opportunities for process improvements, automation, and efficiency gains within finance and procurement functions
- Collaborate with finance colleagues to ensure alignment with wider business reporting and strategy
Key Experience:
- Qualified or part-qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) or equivalent experience
- Strong commercial awareness with proven finance business partnering experience, ideally within procurement, supply chain, or operations
- Expert Excel user, confident building complex pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, and interactive dashboards
- Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to communicate insights clearly
- Comfortable challenging stakeholders and influencing decision-making at all levels
- Experience in a manufacturing or engineering environment is desirable but not essential
- Competitive salary up to £50,000 (DOE)
- On-site role within a collaborative and supportive team
- Free parking and on-site facilities
- A varied and influential role with real scope to make an impact
- 8 AM - 5 PM (45-minute lunch)
- 25 day's annual leave
To apply, please send your CV along with details of your current salary and notice period.For a confidential conversation, contact Daniel Marlow on (phone number removed) or connect via LinkedIn: Daniel Marlow
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