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Role: Finance Manager - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Location: York - Head Office - You must live local

Salary: £48,000k - £55,000k

We are seeking a Finance Manager to join our Head Office team in York, as part of the Finance team, you will be working in a positive environment where personal development is encouraged, creating career opportunities and a driven team.

As our next Finance Manager you'll be instrumental in supporting the finance function. Your remit will be to support the team and ensure the company operates with integrity within the guidelines set by the Portakabin Group.

The key purpose of this role is to provide accurate and timely financial reporting to ensure their area of responsibility operates effectively and with strong financial control.

As a Finance Manager, you will:

*Provide timely month-end financial reporting of management accounts and forecasts.

*Deliver monthly financial reports on time and to required quality.

*Provide analysis and interpretations of accounts to management, ensuring full understanding of financial implications of decisions.

*Support the annual budget process, ensure reports are completed within set deadlines.

*Liaise with colleagues in commercial and operational teams to ensure margins are maintained and costs are effectively managed.

*Provide accurate and insightful KPI reporting to business colleagues.

*Support successful audits through dealing with audit requests and resolving queries with minimal actions and issues.

*Ensure balance sheet reconciliations are diligently performed for their area on a timely basis each month.

*Maintain effective financial controls in their area of responsibility.

*Collaborate with other Finance colleagues across the business to improve the accuracy and efficiency of financial processes.

Essential Skills and Criteria for this role:

*Qualified Accountant (ACA / ACCA / ICAEW or equivalent)

*Strong technical accounting knowledge and understanding

*Proven experience providing monthly management reporting

*Strong experience and ability to negotiate with and persuade internal and external customers

*Proven experience in monthly forecasting of P&L, balance sheet and cash flows

*Ability to proactively set own agenda to meet the deadlines

*Strong IT capabilities including Microsoft packages, particularly Excel

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Benefits & Opportunities

*25 days annual leave + Bank holidays

*Option to buy 5 days of annual leave

*Working flexibly principles

*Contributory pension

*Access to a range of dedicated health and wellbeing services

*A chance to give back to your community with an annual volunteering day off

Why Portakabin?

Portakabin employs more than 2,000 people across ten European countries with our head office and primary manufacturing facility located in York UK.

As innovators in the science of building, we provide modular buildings for hire and sale, as well as supplying refurbished buildings and construction site accommodation. We deliver building solutions for organisations of any size, in sectors ranging from manufacturing, education and health to transport, utilities and construction.

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. Portakabin is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective colleagues.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives and hire great people to build talented and diverse teams.

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments throughout the application, recruitment, and onboarding processes for candidates that require additional support and/or adjustments to be made. If you are having any difficulty applying, please contact our recruitment team on

Role: MRP Controller - York - Hybrid Role

Salary: £32,000 - £38,000 + Yearly Bonus

Location: York - You must be located within 1 hour of York.

We have an exciting opportunity for a MRP (material requirements planning) Controller to join our successful team at our Head office in York. Once you are fully trained you can work from home 2 days per week.

You will provide lean, capacity managed production programmes in support of customer demand to deliver their requirements on time, whilst ensuring externally sourced materials are delivered on a JIT system with minimal held inventory.

***We are looking for a candidate with the ability and desire to learn and deliver efficiency improvement and optimisation. You will have strong experience and the ability to develop collaborative relationships both internally and externally, with a mindset to deliver the best for Portakabin***.

As a MRP Controller, you will:

*Ensure materials produced internally are available on time to deliver factory assembly programme.

*Liaise daily with the manufacturing team to eliminate bottlenecks and assembly issues and ensure that production schedules are understood, realistic and achieved; it includes monitoring and reporting the position of each manufacturing area against the schedule (Production plan adherence >95%).

Take responsibility for the introduction of new and superseded produced in house materials to avoid materials shortages, reduce slow movers, and obsolete.

*Identify slow moving, obsolete and surplus materials and recommend appropriate action to reduce inventory waste through stock turnover focus.

*Control the release of work within agreed capacity levels & provide smooth programmes to each work centre.

*Participate in lean initiatives to improve production schedule processes & systems; partnering with internal stakeholders to define clear roles and responsibilities.

*Lead the change of ownership of production scheduling from operations to supply chain.

Essential Skills and experience for the role:

*Supply Chain or Production background - Understanding of Production and Supply Chain methodology and strategy skills

*Solid understanding of Materials Resource Planning procedures, production planning and finite scheduling.

*Data analysis and manipulation

*Excellent stakeholder Manager.

*Excellent organisation and communication.

*Collaborative Mindset.

*IT- Excel, PowerPoint, ERP/SAP System

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Benefits & Opportunities

*25 Days holiday + Bank Holidays

*Option to buy 5 days of annual leave

*Working flexibly principles

*Contributory pension

*Yearly Bonus

As a Portakabin Employee, you will also be able to access a range of dedicated health and wellbeing services, a chance to give back to your community with an annual volunteering day off, and fully funded professional qualifications! There is also a great opportunity for career progression within Portakabin.

Why Portakabin?

Portakabin employs more than 2,000 people across ten European countries with our head office and primary manufacturing facility located in York UK.

As innovators in the science of building, we provide modular buildings for hire and sale, as well as supplying refurbished buildings and construction site accommodation. We deliver building solutions for organisations of any size, in sectors ranging from manufacturing, education and health to transport, utilities and construction.

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. Portakabin is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective colleagues.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives and hire great people to build talented and diverse teams.

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments throughout the application, recruitment, and onboarding processes for candidates that require additional support and/or adjustments to be made. If you are having any difficulty applying, please contact our recruitment team on

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