Head Of Supply Chain Finance

Employment type: Permanent
Salary: 100k/year - 120k/year

East London | 4 days in the office

Senior leadership role | High-Growth / Retail / FMCG / Manufacturing

We really need someone who can look at efficiencies in supply chain and manufacturing processes!

This is a genuinely standout opportunity.

We are supporting a rapidly expanding, consumer-led brand with an unreal product, an unreal culture, and huge ambition for what comes next.

This role will manage and own Supply Chain Finance across the whole business, cradle to grave.

This is not a role where finance sits on the sidelines producing reports. This is a CFO-facing leadership hire, right at the heart of operations, with real autonomy to shape performance, influence strategy, and help drive the next stage of growth.

You will work directly with an exceptional CFO who will back you, challenge you, and give you the space to run. The exposure, pace and progression here are rare.

The business is expanding into a new site, scaling volumes significantly, and moving onto SAP, making this one of the most important operational finance hires in the company.

Why this role is exciting

This is a hands-on, factory-facing finance leadership role, giving real-time visibility, analytics, commercial support and control across:

  • Product costing and gross margin
  • Labour productivity and operational efficiency
  • Material usage, yield and waste
  • Stock, WIP and working capital
  • Performance, accountability and scalable controls

You will sit at the centre of operations, ensuring the business scales profitably, with discipline and clarity.

The role is designed to grow, with scope to build and lead a team as volumes, SKUs and sites increase. What you will be doing:

  • Supply-Chain analytics and commercial finance
  • Strategic insights
  • Own the full financial performance of manufacturing and fulfilment operations
  • Lead product costing, standard cost accuracy and operational cost control
  • Deliver detailed variance analysis across materials, labour, waste and overhead
  • Translate demand into clear labour, ingredient and capacity plans
  • Build factory budgets, rolling forecasts and investment models
  • Lead the operations finance workstream through the move to SAP
  • Support the financial delivery of a major site relocation and expansion
  • Strengthen controls, reporting and decision-making across operations
  • Build and develop a high-performing cost and operations finance team over time

What they are looking for

A senior, hands-on manufacturing finance leader who thrives in fast-moving environments.

You will likely have:

  • ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualification
  • Existing experience of supply-chain
  • Strong experience in FMCG or food manufacturing
  • Background in plant finance, factory controlling or operations finance
  • Deep knowledge of costing, labour, yield, WIP and inventory
  • ERP implementation experience (SAP highly desirable)
  • Exposure to high-growth, PE-backed or transformation environments

What this becomes

As the business scales across higher volumes and multiple sites, this role naturally evolves into a broader Operations Finance Director position, with strategic ownership of major investment decisions.

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