Finance Manager Operations: EMECA at Weir Minerals

Purpose of Role:

• The Finance Manager – Operations plays a critical role in ensuring financial integrity, strategic alignment, and operational efficiency across manufacturing, service, engineering, and supply chain functions.
• This role serves as a key business partner to local and regional teams, providing financial insights and modelling to support strategic decision-making.

Key Responsibilities:

• Safety First: Champion a zero-harm culture by consistently demonstrating commitment to world-class safety standards.
• Ensure full compliance with Weir Group policies, divisional guidelines, and the Code of Conduct.
• Act as a business partner to operations and supply chain teams, providing financial insight and support.
• Maintain integrity of overhead costs, monthly hours, and hourly rates across cost centers.
• Report and analyze purchase price variances and production variances.
• Lead the forecasting and budgeting of direct costs and logistics.
• Monitor and improve forecast accuracy and budget cycle completion rates.
• Drive product costing reviews across multiple sites.
• Collaborate with planning teams on inventory SLOB (slow-moving and obsolete) provisions.
• Analyze inventory and supply chain data to identify trends and opportunities.
• Manage product master data and SAP condition tables.
• Support the sales team with pricing decisions and margin analysis.
• Assist engineering and operations teams in cost efficiency reviews.
• Contribute to CAPEX investment appraisals and financial modeling.
• Support working capital improvement initiatives through data-driven analysis and recommendations.

​​​​​​​Job Knowledge/Education and Qualifications:

• BCom Honours in Management Accounting
• CIMA, CA, or ACCA
• You should have 5–8 years of relevant experience in a financial or analytical role, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Extensive experience in the manufacturing sector, particularly within heavy industrial environments such as steel, foundry, or related industries. The ideal candidate will have a deep knowledge of complex production processes and capital-intensive operations.
• Strong ability to read, analyze, and interpret financial reports, legal documents, and technical journals.
• Experience with ERP systems / Advanced skills in Microsoft Office tools / Familiarity with finance systems and tools
• Confident in responding to customer and regulatory inquiries, and presenting insights to senior leadership.
• Proficient in advanced mathematics, including exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations.
• Skilled in statistical techniques such as frequency distribution, variance analysis, correlation, sampling theory, and factor analysis.
• Excellent problem-solving skills: able to define problems, collect and analyze data, and draw valid conclusions.
• Comfortable working with abstract and complex variables, including interpreting technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form.