Reports to: Senior Finance Business Partner (closely supporting Area General Manager)
Location: South East London
Medlock Partners are delighted to be partnering with a Global Engineering business based in the Cheshire area as they look to appoint a commercially focused Finance Business Partner to cover their South East region. Reporting to Finance Director and supporting the Area General Manager, the Finance Business Partner will play a key role in driving performance within the South East of the UK across operational, commercial and logistics functions.
This is a high-impact role with broad exposure, senior stakeholder engagement and genuine influence over decision-making, performance and long-term planning.
Key Responsibilities
1. Commercial & Operational Business Partnering
- Partner with operational and commercial stakeholders to provide financial insight and challenge.
- Support decision-making through robust financial analysis, scenario modelling, and investment appraisal
- Drive understanding of profitability by customer, product, site, and activity
- Support pricing decisions, margin improvement initiatives, and cost-to-serve analysis
- Provide financial input into strategic projects, operational improvements, and capital investment proposals
2. Performance Reporting & Analysis
- Deliver timely and insightful weekly and monthly performance reporting
- Analyse trading performance, identifying key drivers of variance against budget, forecast, and prior year
- Prepare clear commentary on financial and operational performance, risks, and opportunities
- Support the development of KPI reporting and forward-looking management information
- Contribute to executive reporting requirements where required
3. Budgeting, Forecasting & Planning
- Support the annual business planning process across operational areas
- Lead periodic forecasting cycles and rolling outlooks with budget holders
- Challenge assumptions and ensure robust financial ownership across the business
- Track delivery of actions and performance improvement plans
4. Working Capital & Cash Management
- Support the management of inventory, debtors, creditors, and operational cash performance
- Provide analysis and challenge around stock levels, aged balances, and cash conversion
- Work closely with operational teams to improve working capital discipline and reporting
- Ensure strong financial discipline and adherence to internal controls, policies, and governance standards
- Support month-end processes, accruals, provisions, and balance sheet reviews where required
- Maintain accuracy and integrity of financial information used for decision-making
- Support audit requests and continuous improvement of financial processes
Key requirements:
- Able to form positive relationships with Executive, Senior and Depot Management
- Experience across multi site cost centres, collating information from varying sources
- Ability to maintain a high level of accuracy in preparing and entering financial information
- Able to travel to multiple sites within the region
- Excellent presentation & Strong data analysis skills
- Effective verbal and listening communications skills
- Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
- Very effective organisational & time management skills
This role would ideally suit a commercially focused finance professional looking for a position that delivers high impact and full visibility at a senior level. You will possess the ability to influence commercial outcomes and operational performance by taking on a broad, influential and high profile remit within a global organisation.
In return the successful candidate will join a thriving global business that offers full training and support, a comprehensive salary and package, coupled with un parallelled progression opportunities. The business operates a “investment in people” culture, is globally conscious and boasts a highly impressive staff retention rate.
#J-18808-Ljbffr”, “datePosted”: “2026-05-17”, “hiringOrganization”: { “@type”: “Organization”, “name”: “Medlock Partners”, “sameAs”: “https://uk.whatjobs.com/pub_api__cpl__435471407__4861?utm_campaign=publisher&utm_medium=api&utm_source=4861&geoID=33” }, “jobLocation”: { “@type”: “Place”, “address”: { “@type”: “PostalAddress”, “addressLocality”: “London” } } }Reports to: Senior Finance Business Partner (closely supporting Area General Manager)
Location: South East London
Medlock Partners are delighted to be partnering with a Global Engineering business based in the Cheshire area as they look to appoint a commercially focused Finance Business Partner to cover their South East region. Reporting to Finance Director and supporting the Area General Manager, the Finance Business Partner will play a key role in driving performance within the South East of the UK across operational, commercial and logistics functions.
This is a high-impact role with broad exposure, senior stakeholder engagement and genuine influence over decision-making, performance and long-term planning.
Key Responsibilities
1. Commercial & Operational Business Partnering
- Partner with operational and commercial stakeholders to provide financial insight and challenge.
- Support decision-making through robust financial analysis, scenario modelling, and investment appraisal
- Drive understanding of profitability by customer, product, site, and activity
- Support pricing decisions, margin improvement initiatives, and cost-to-serve analysis
- Provide financial input into strategic projects, operational improvements, and capital investment proposals
2. Performance Reporting & Analysis
- Deliver timely and insightful weekly and monthly performance reporting
- Analyse trading performance, identifying key drivers of variance against budget, forecast, and prior year
- Prepare clear commentary on financial and operational performance, risks, and opportunities
- Support the development of KPI reporting and forward-looking management information
- Contribute to executive reporting requirements where required
3. Budgeting, Forecasting & Planning
- Support the annual business planning process across operational areas
- Lead periodic forecasting cycles and rolling outlooks with budget holders
- Challenge assumptions and ensure robust financial ownership across the business
- Track delivery of actions and performance improvement plans
4. Working Capital & Cash Management
- Support the management of inventory, debtors, creditors, and operational cash performance
- Provide analysis and challenge around stock levels, aged balances, and cash conversion
- Work closely with operational teams to improve working capital discipline and reporting
- Ensure strong financial discipline and adherence to internal controls, policies, and governance standards
- Support month-end processes, accruals, provisions, and balance sheet reviews where required
- Maintain accuracy and integrity of financial information used for decision-making
- Support audit requests and continuous improvement of financial processes
Key requirements:
- Able to form positive relationships with Executive, Senior and Depot Management
- Experience across multi site cost centres, collating information from varying sources
- Ability to maintain a high level of accuracy in preparing and entering financial information
- Able to travel to multiple sites within the region
- Excellent presentation & Strong data analysis skills
- Effective verbal and listening communications skills
- Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
- Very effective organisational & time management skills
This role would ideally suit a commercially focused finance professional looking for a position that delivers high impact and full visibility at a senior level. You will possess the ability to influence commercial outcomes and operational performance by taking on a broad, influential and high profile remit within a global organisation.
In return the successful candidate will join a thriving global business that offers full training and support, a comprehensive salary and package, coupled with un parallelled progression opportunities. The business operates a “investment in people” culture, is globally conscious and boasts a highly impressive staff retention rate.
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