Job Description

HellermannTyton is a leading manufacturer and supplier of products for fastening, fixing, installing, connecting, insulating, protecting, and identifying electrical cables and data network infrastructure. We also develop parts for customer-specific industrial applications. Since 1935, our mission has been to provide innovative solutions for all cable management needs - with customer satisfaction as our priority. Our portfolio includes more than 75,000 items, and we operate 15 world-class manufacturing facilities in 38 countries, employing over 6,000 people.



HellermannTyton is owned by APTIV and operates as a standalone business unit within the APTIV Group.


The Finance Business Partner will be responsible for delivering financial support to the manufacturing operations team at the Manchester Site.


This will involve supporting day to day activities and enabling informed decision making. Producing robust reporting and insightful analysis as well as being heavily involved in site initiatives through financial validation of projects and challenging assumptions.


The role will also support the site in key activities in the financial calendar such as monthly forecasting, annual Budgeting and the Strategic plan process.

Your Key Responsibilities:

Monthly accruals and Balance sheet reconciliations

Stock accounting, reporting and supporting analysis

Financial ownership for Manchester P&L

Business partnering with local site management team Building of forecasts, budget and Strategic Plan in conjunction with the local site management team

Reporting: local and operational KPIs, EMEA and Corporate

Supporting the Capital expenditure (Capex) process for the Manchester site including: validating and challenging capital expenditure requests (CERs), tracking CER approvals, capex forecasting and assessing Assets ready for use

Standard cost updates and working with the site teams to optimise product costs

Adhoc analysis and reporting

You'll be working towards or a hold professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA).


You'll have ideally a minimum of three years commercial experience in a manufacturing environment and a knowledge of accounting systems, ideally with costing ERP experience. You'll have excellent interpersonal written and verbal communication skills that can be adapted for both financial and non-financial colleagues and have the ability to produce accurate work, pay attention to detail whilst being able to see the big picture.



Additionally, you have:



u Experience in the use of Microsoft office, being especially strong in excel and data manipulation, ideally with experience of using a business analytics platform



u Strong business understanding and ability to convey concise simplified business cases



u A flexible attitude to work, both proactive and reactive



u The ability to prioritise and organise workload



u A strong personal drive, an ability to make things happen and see things through to completion



u A tenacious approach to problem solving with the determination to identify, flag and explain root causes of problems and make recommendations



u Strong team working behaviours



u Had previous exposure to financial systems (Aurora, Tagetik, and HFM would be desirable)



u Had previous exposure to SOX controls and compliance (would be desirable)