Finance Business Partner, Operations

Finance Business Partner, Operations

• will provide timely, relevant, and accurate information, along with insightful analysis, to support senior management’s decision-making.
• The role involves developing the capability to enable swift data extraction and visualization, enhancing visibility and transparency of key business metrics.
• The focus is on delivering meaningful insights to support the continued and sustainable profitable growth of the Filtrona business.
• Drive improvement in conversion costs and site fixed overheads versus budget and historical periods. Provide actionable insights, identify focus areas, and run simulations to help site management optimize cost levels in line with forecasted business activity. This includes monthly tracking and action monitoring, working collaboratively with site teams across functions, and creating visibility for the global manufacturing team regarding improvement actions.
• Lead the digital transformation journey of the finance function and play a key role in increasing the use of BI tools, especially Power BI. This includes developing dashboards and Power Query models to improve efficiency in data extraction and visualization.
• Understand diverse internal and external data sources and their architecture. Be able to integrate various data sources to enable seamless automation of business analysis, resulting in optimized financial workflows and enhanced efficiency.
• Perform analysis using large, complex datasets and enhance reporting to improve performance tracking against targets and identify trends.
• Contribute effectively to the annual budgeting and monthly forecasting processes, including developing templates to support end-to-end planning and forecasting.
• Build and foster strong cross-functional relationships across business units and stakeholders, especially with group support functions such as Supply Chain, Manufacturing Operations, and Procurement. Help the organization understand how the components work together to drive performance, and strengthen the team’s partnership and influencing capabilities to support growth.
• Conduct price, mix, and volume analysis to support margin improvement initiatives.
• Proactively participate in various business improvement and ad hoc projects.
• Manage overall financial reporting and analysis activities, including the production and delivery of all standard reports (such as template and chart updates), ad hoc reports, presentation materials, and non-pricing/profitability (costing) analysis for the business, in accordance with defined standards.
• *This position can be based at one of our manufacturing sites in Surabaya (Indonesia), Bangkok (Thailand), Dubai (UAE), or Budapest (Hungary).*
• What we are looking for
• 8–10 years of finance experience, including at least 6 years in FP&A.
• Proven experience within a manufacturing environment, driving both operational and financial performance.
• Strong commercial and business acumen, with the ability to turn financial insights into actionable outcomes.
• Proven ability to deliver impactful financial analysis and influence key business decisions.
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to simplify complex data into clear, executive-level insights.
• Solid understanding of accounting principles and financial standards.
• A self-starter mindset with the ability to take ownership and drive initiatives end-to-end.
• Thrive in fast-paced environments, managing competing priorities and tight deadlines.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate and influence across functions.
• Strong attention to detail combined with a strategic, big-picture mindset.
• Advanced Excel and MS Office skills; Power BI or data visualization experience.

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