Operations Analyst

Role Overview
Our client is seeking a Financial Operations Analyst to join the new Operations team . This is a dual-role position, combining project-based assignments with ongoing operational responsibilities. The successful candidate will focus on both running and improving the plant’s processes, ensuring robust data custodianship, and supporting the executive team with key financial insights. This role could suit a strong IT analyst or a part-qualified accounting professional.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyse, maintain, and improve plant processes, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in both daily operations and longer-term projects.
  
  
• Serve as a key point of contact for process improvement initiatives, troubleshooting data and enterprise application issues, and driving cross-application understanding.
  
  
• Consolidate and interpret financial and operational data for executive reporting and plant management readouts.
  
  
• Assess and report on compliance performance against internal and external requirements.
  
  
• Perform periodic activities, including reconciliations, financial analysis and other key jobs such as billing runs and invoicing.
  
  
• Liaise with offsite back office finance teams on banking, accounts payable/receivable, ledger reconciliations, and financial housekeeping.
  
  
• Specify requirements for new IT solutions; participate in the design and planning of related IT projects, coordinating with retained external professionals as needed.
  
  
• Foster strong working relationships with the onsite plant team (reporting to the Plant Manager) and the executive team, ensuring clear communication and timely delivery of financial information.
  
  Candidate Profile
  
  Essential:
  
  
• Demonstrated experience in financial process analysis, improvement, and reporting.
  
  
• Evidenced record of data custodianship and/or involvement in designing or using data warehouses, ETL processes, or similar data management solutions.
  
  
• Strong troubleshooting skills with enterprise applications and the ability to consolidate and interpret data from multiple sources.
  
  
• Experience with financial analysis and period-end processes.
  
  
• Appreciation of bookkeeping and double entry principles.
  
  
• Ability to build relationships across operational and executive teams.
  
  Desirable:
  
  
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Business Central.
  
  
• Experience specifying, designing, or implementing IT/ERP solutions.
  
  
• Experience in a manufacturing or plant environment.
  
  
• Familiarity with assessing effectiveness of compliance and compliance reporting.
  
  This is a very exciting project with huge career potential. Please apply now to discuss the role