Finance Manager - Purchasing Controlling Lead

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Function: Finance
Contract: Full time - Permanent

Location: Pyms Lane, Crewe, CW1 3PL with flexible hybrid working

Bentley Motors is combining a world of luxury and progressive technology to embrace an electrified future. Join us as we embark on the most transformative phase in Bentley's history.

Purpose of the Role

Join the Finance team as a Finance Manager, where you'll lead a team of two and own the coordination of controlling purchasing overhead, investments and material cost. You'll play a pivotal role within the team, as you'll build collaborative partnerships with stakeholders across Purchasing to drive performance, in addition to providing finance guidance and support to the department.
Reporting into the Financial Controller - Purchase and Unit Cost your main responsibilities include;

• Providing and presenting financial data to management to support decision making
• Leadership of local planning, forecasting and budgeting processes to achieve business targets and timelines
• Providing expertise for business decisions, checking the quality of the data in any proposal and using knowledge of the impact on other areas of finance and the business highlighting any areas of conflict
• Proactively looking at areas to improve business performance, providing logical approach, modelled opportunities with reasoned argument and backup
• Reviewing, reporting, preparing and presenting the financial performance for Purchasing
• Carrying out frequent budget holder reviews, ensuring that the budget holder has full understanding of current and planned expenditure, risks and opportunities to budget
• Preparing and presenting audit information and analysis to both External Auditors and Internal Auditors

About the Team
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Finance function in this period of Automotive transformation as we release our new products-Bentley Hybrid Electric and Fully Electric vehicles! The role is - and will remain - of strategic importance as efficient and transparent control of the significant material cost budget is a key success factor in both our current model range and the new Bentley Electrification Projects.

About you - Skills and Experience

• Experience operating within ambiguous environments, building and establishing processes
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Able to challenge and influence effectively
• Experience engaging with and presenting to stakeholders up to Board level
• Strong analytical skills and experience producing comprehensive analysis to support decision making, including identifying risks and opportunities
• Experience working in a commercial business, ideally within the Automotive industry
• SAP, PAL, Business Objects and Tableau experience
• Advanced Microsoft Office experience, specifically with Excel and PowerPoint
• A recognised accounting qualification such as ACA, ACCA or CIMA, with 2+ years PQE experience in a finance role

What Bentley Offers

• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid working options
• 35 days annual leave inclusive of UK bank holidays
• Progression pathways and programmes, mentoring, and study support opportunities available
• Optional car lease scheme with discounted access to brand new VW Group cars (VW, Seat, Skoda, Audi) up to every six months
• Health and life assurance benefits providing up to five times annual salary
• Annual salary reviews and competitive bonus scheme
• Contributory pension scheme - you put in 6% we put in 10%
• Access to a wide range of resources to support your health and well-being including an online GP, the choice to join BUPA health plans, a mental health counsellor, and onsite physio
• Paid volunteering days dedicated to community giving

The Bentley Campus
Our campus is going through an exciting transformation offering unrivalled facilities including green spaces, free parking, an onsite restaurant, coffee shops and Legends gym.

#BelongingAtBentley

Motivated to be the most diverse, inclusive luxury car company, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all individuals are respected, valued, and empowered.

We firmly believe in equal opportunities for all, helping all colleagues thrive as their authentic selves and reach their highest potential. We believe that everyone, regardless of their background or beliefs, belongs at Bentley. Everyone is entitled to respect and dignity and we positively celebrate the differences between people.

Beyond100
Announced in 2020, Bentley's ground-breaking Beyond100 strategy targets sustainable luxury mobility leadership, reinventing every aspect of the business. Building on over two decades of forward-thinking, join us as Bentley moves towards a sustainable future.

Closing date: 20 December 2024