Mitchell Adam

We are working with a Private Equity backed services business who are looking to appoint a Senior Finance Business Partner. In this highly visible role, you will work alongside executive and operational leaders to strengthen financial insight, accountability, and performance across the business. Acting as a trusted commercial advisor, you will use data-driven analysis to influence strategic decisions and support key growth initiatives, pricing strategies, and profitability improvements. You will take ownership of executive-level financial reporting, delivering the monthly finance pack and providing clear, actionable insights that enable leadership teams to make confident decisions. A key focus of the role will be leading budgeting, forecasting, and reforecasting processes, alongside detailed client profitability analysis. Your ability to translate complex financial data into clear commercial insight will help identify opportunities for margin improvement, cost optimisation, and enhanced operational efficiency. You will also oversee project financial reporting, ensuring robust review of project expenditure and delivering accurate, meaningful reporting to senior leadership and board-level stakeholders. As a senior leader within the finance function, you will lead and develop the Finance Business Partnering team, building a high-performing, commercially focused culture that supports the wider business and drives continuous improvement. Alongside this, you will ensure strong financial governance and control across the organisation, maintaining balance sheet integrity and oversight of key account reconciliations. You will also develop robust financial models to support reporting, pricing decisions, investment cases, and long-term strategic planning. About You You are a fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA) with strong post-qualification experience in a commercially focused finance role. You will bring a proven track record of partnering with senior and executive stakeholders, influencing decision-making through clear financial insight and strategic thinking. Strong commercial acumen and advanced analytical skills are essential. Experience working with ERP systems, particularly SAP, combined with strong financial reporting expertise will be highly advantageous. Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills are expected. Most importantly, you are a confident and credible communicator who thrives in a collaborative environment and is comfortable challenging and influencing at senior levels.

Mitchell Adan are working alongside a well-established manufacturing company based in Coventry who are currently going through a period of rapid growth and are looking for a strong Financial Controller with experience in cost accounting to strengthen and support the finance team going forward, initially on an interim basis. You will be collaborating with the current FC to support the growth at site level, the successful candidate will have full responsibility for, but not limited to; guiding the business through the annual budgeting and forecasting process, the production of board reports and presentations, providing an insightful business-partnering service to budget holders across the business and the provision of meaningful commercial analysis aimed at continually improving profitability. Ideally you will - Be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with a confident communication style, preferably having had exposure to cost accounting within manufacturing. Have good financial reporting, control & analysis skills, allowing you to quickly identify and address improvements that can be made in order to increase productivity, streamline processes and improve reporting outputs; Possess strong management and leadership, with great relationship-building and influencing qualities; Be able to demonstrate examples in which you have been able to add direct value to your business area through cost-saving initiatives, general business / reporting improvements and informing strategic business decisions In return, you will - Work in a senior capacity for a growing manufacturing business, enjoying complete autonomy in your role - organising your own workload and generating / leading your own projects Be encouraged to exercise your commercial business acumen in terms of helping to increase margins, profitability and overall performance Enjoy genuine opportunities to advance and progress your career in a successful, growing and highly commercial business Add an excellent string to your bow working within such a rapid expansion period with the possibility of a permanent role going forward. This is a great position for an experienced Financial Controller to gain operational exposure in a large, successful and forward-thinking international business, this role is available immediately please apply now to avoid disappointment.