Plant Finance Business Partner - CP Kelco

Portfolio Business: CP Kelco 

Have you heard the big news? As of November 15th, CP Kelco has become part of Tate & Lyle PLC!  

The combination of our two companies is highly complementary, enhancing our Sweetening, Mouthfeel, and Fortification platforms, while also strengthening our capabilities in consumer and industrial applications. We’re unlocking new opportunities and delivering an even more compelling value proposition to our customers with a leading global portfolio of specialty food and beverage ingredients and a world-class team of food science experts. Together we are uniquely positioned to meet the rising consumer demand for healthier, tastier, and more sustainable food and beverages placing us at the center of the future of food.

Join us and be part of this transformative journey! We’re looking for passionate individuals ready to make an impact in a thriving environment where innovation and expertise meet. Don’t miss your chance to contribute to a company that values creativity and collaboration, and to be part of a team that’s shaping the future of food.

Join us as we build this transformative organisation — apply today!

Position Summary

The Plant Finance Business Partner provides critical support in budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis by serving in an individual contributor capacity. This role focuses on delivering accurate financial insights and reports to support the FP&A team and Finance business partners. As a Plant Finance Business Partner you will ensure data quality and consistency across financial processes within the team, playing a vital role in supporting financial decision making. 

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

 

Responsibilities

Business Support 

• Advisor and business partner to the plant manager for financial and legal tasks 
• Proactive member of the plant leadership team, providing financial leadership to the business  
• Provide decision support on short, medium and long term issues by using data, sensitivity analysis, information and business understanding 
• Partner with the plant operations teams to identify, support and measure productivity & continuous improvement projects within the plant  
• Collaborate with Specialist teams, including Tax and Treasury to create effective and integrated  financial solutions 
• Support the creation of the financial statements in accordance with local and IFRS regulation  

Cost, cash and working capital management  

• In liaison with GSS and other functions such as purchasing ensure the reliability of cost information in SAP and other information systems like bills of materials, standard and actual costs at product level. 
• Support the business in setting cost management and cost reduction plans.  Monitor and comment upon achievement versus these plans 
• Understand and monitor the drivers of plant working capital, including the coordination of physical inventory counts and cycle counts and overseeing any necessary stock adjustments; finished & semi-finished goods, spare parts, ingredients, raw materials and auxiliaries  

Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting  

• AOP process owner for the plant. Coordinate process of fix cost budgeting, bill of materials and master recipe development including energy setup, maintenance planning and depreciation indirect and SGA cost where applicable.
• Support long term plan development like AOP process with lower level of detail
• Develop and monitor coherent and integrated KPIs and performance measures relevant to the plant 
• Prepare sensitivities and understand the relevant risks and opportunities in the plan/ forecast to build confidence that it is robust and achievable   

 

Responsibilities Continued

Performance Analysis and Reporting  

• Analyze and prepare commentary on management reports prepared by GSS 
• Prepare appropriate variance and other analysis and commentaries where not provided by GSS 
• This includes commenting on and understanding costs by product, cost center and plant as well as commenting on periodic variances and their causes 
• Follow up the causes of variances, agree actions with non-finance teams to fix them and monitor successful completion  
• Translate business data and information into accurate financial m