Finance Business Partner

Filoform is a leading manufacturer of sealing and protection products for the energy and telecommunications industry, with operations in the United Kingdom, Netherlands and Germany. The company is known for quality and reliability, and focuses on stability, responsibility and creativity.

Join Our Team at Filoform – Exciting Opportunities Await

Our culture puts people at the centre of everything we do. Your ideas will be valued, your development supported, and your contributions will genuinely make a difference. Here, you’ll be part of a diverse and ambitious team that champions creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Reports to

Head of Finance – Joints & Seals

Role Overview

The Finance Business Partner will be supporting the J&S Management team in driving the delivery of the finance and business strategy. As we continue with our ambitious growth journey this finance role will be integral to the decision making across the divisions and budget holders within the departments, to drive growth and profitability for the group. Based at our Geldermalsen site, a key aspect of this role will be to further elevate the role of finance through effective business partnering and collaboration.

What our new ‘Finance Business Partner’ will be doing

• Produce clear variance analysis against budget and forecast, highlighting key drivers, trends, and risks.
• Partner with site and functional leaders to ensure financial performance is fully understood and actions are agreed.
• Own and maintain standard costing models, ensuring alignment with operational reality and production processes.
• Review and challenge material, labour and overhead variances, working closely with operations to identify root causes.
• Assist with the end-to-end preparation and delivery of monthly management accounts, ensuring timely, accurate and insightful reporting.
• Support the maintenance and review of intercompany transfer pricing, ensuring consistency, accuracy and compliance with group policies.
• Act as a trusted commercial advisor, providing financial insight to support pricing decisions, quotations and margin improvement initiatives.
• Analyse product, customer and contract profitability, identifying opportunities for margin enhancement and cost optimisation.
• Support new product introductions and operational changes with robust cost and profitability analysis.
• Prepare and present monthly performance reviews to site leadership teams, translating financial data into meaningful operational insight.
• Work collaboratively with manufacturing, supply chain and commercial teams to define and track key financial and operational KPIs.
• Drive a culture of financial ownership and accountability across manufacturing sites.
• Lead the development of annual budgets and rolling forecasts, ensuring assumptions are robust, aligned and clearly understood.
• Challenge assumptions and support budget holders to produce realistic and accountable plans.
• Identify financial risks and opportunities across the forecast horizon and support mitigation planning.
• Partner with site leadership to support continuous improvement, productivity and cost-reduction initiatives.
• Support strategic initiatives such as capacity planning, capital investment, footprint optimisation and make/buy decisions.
• All other duties as deemed necessary by the Head of Finance.

The experience our new ‘Finance Business Partner’ will have includes

• ACA, ACCA, CIMA Qualified or part qualified finalist level, or equivalent qualification.
• Relevant finance experience at Business Partner level, in manufacturing or distribution
• Prior experience of operating ERP systems.
• A collaborative team player.
• Self-motivated and proactive in overcoming challenges.
• Able to be structured and logical, whilst having the agility to respond to changing priorities.
• Strong management and performance accounting capability.
• Analytical and deadline driven.
• High level IT skills preferable.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

What Filoform Offers You

A culture that values opportunity for growth, development, and internal promotion

• Comprehensive secondary benefits
• Significant contribution to your pension plan
• Excellent opportunities to develop and progress within the wider CRH Group