Finance Business Partner - Operations
Date: 18 Dec 2024
Location: Mitchelstown, IE, P67 E020
Company: Ornua Co-operative Limited
Ornua is a dairy co-operative which sells dairy products on behalf of its members, Ireland’s dairy processors and, in turn, Irish dairy farmers. It is Ireland’s largest exporter of Irish dairy products, exporting to 110 countries worldwide. Headquartered in Dublin, Ornua has annualised sales of over €3.5 billion and a global team of 3,000 employees.
Ornua is structured across two divisions: Ornua Foods and Ornua Ingredients. We operate from 10 business units worldwide, including 16 production facilities, and have sales and marketing teams working in-market across the globe in Africa, Asia, Germany, Ireland, the Middle East, Spain, the UK, and the US.
You may know us by our brands Kerrygold, Dubliner, Pilgrim’s Choice, Avantage, Forto, and BEO.
Ornua’s Values
At Ornua, our Values lie at the core of everything that we do and how we behave both individually and as a business. Our five values, and their underlying behaviours, encourage us to Seek and Embrace New Ideas, Make It Happen, Be Our True Selves, Show You Care and Achieve Great Things Together.
Ornua’s Growth
At Ornua, our co-operative ethos lies at the heart of how we do business. We care passionately about driving sustainable, profitable growth, underpinned by our ambitious ‘Path to Prosper’ strategy. We have delivered significant growth in our core business, and we have ambitious plans for continued growth over the next five years.
WHY THIS ROLE IS VALUABLE
This role will partner with senior stakeholders in the business driving continuous improvement and cost saving initiatives. It will analyse plant performance with a focus on improving that performance.
Key responsibilities:
Business Partnering
- Work closely with Managing Director, Finance Director and business leadership to provide operations support on a day-to-day basis
- Become the Operations Director’s right hand when it comes to decision making.
- Enable and drive decision making through robust financial analysis on capital investment, cost saving and innovation initiatives.
- Work close with Group and Foods Finance to ensure clarity on financial performance
- Develop strong relations with the FP&A partner and financial accountant to harness any synergies and develop improvements across the function.
- Support development of financial awareness of non-finance colleagues
Operations
- Work closely with Operations Director to identify Continuous Improvement improvements and cost saving initiatives
- Provide detailed financial analysis to support capital investment decisions
- Develop and publish KPI reporting to drive improvement in Operations
- Drive absolute clarity on Bill of Materials by SKU and manage packing rate changes
- Ownership of selected Operations overheads cost centres, to include month end management accounting, commentary and communication with budget holders as required
- Analysis and reporting of plant manufacturing performance as well as the subsequent education of how to improve performance going forward.
- Work closely with operations to correct stock and MO issues.
- Reporting on utilities/facilities
- Work alongside both finance and supply chain to eliminate PO issues.
- Ownership of ME stock and agreeing intercompany recs
Budgeting and Forecasting
- Assist in annual budget process by applying an operations lens with the aim of delivering a clearly articulated and initiative driven business plan
- Assist in detailed quarterly forecast (3+9, 6+6 and 9+3) throughout the year
- Assist in the preparation of P&Ls for 5 Year strategic plans focusing on capacity and operation excellence
Ad Hoc Work
- Provide cover for Finance Director when necessary
- Support the wider finance team during pinch points throughout the year
- Support miscellaneous project work
Key Requirements and Competencies:
- Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA) with 0-2 PQE
- Proficient in Microsoft Office; advanced Excel an advantage
- Strong influencing skills
- Ability to lead and drive change
- Good team player with strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Operationally astute with strong analytical skills
- Experience operating as a business partner to non-finance functions
- Highly motivated and dynamic
- International experience welcome
- EXPERTISE: For projects that involve others, applies effective professional skill, analysis, problem solving, decision making, prioritising, planning and reviewing.
- WORKING TOGETHER: Encourages co-operation in own team and ensures cross-functional working
- OWNERSHIP: Clarifies accountabilities, overlaps, and gaps, and helps others remain motivated through difficult times
- COMMUNICATIVE: Communicates with impact, adapting style for different situations and people, to ensure all are heard and valued and feel psychologically safe
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