Our premium brand Automotive client is currently recruiting for the following role:

Business Planning & Finance - Automotive - £27.21/hr (Inside IR35) - Coventry (hybrid potential) - 12 Months (maternity cover)

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities
- Governance & Assurance: Ensure compliance with standards, document control & assurance processes; capital and operational expenditure. Support implementation of governance structures.
- Capital Project Evaluation: Collaborate with Technical Specialists to assess the feasibility of investment on projects and support business case development. Review project rankings based on strategic value, financial return & resource availability.
- Project Budgeting & Monitoring: Assist in the development of project budgets, supporting stakeholders with allocation of spend type. Monitor project performance for budget overruns or delays.
- Operational Expenditure Planning: Support building operational budgets with customers. Identify operational improvement opportunities to support budget alignment and cost risk mitigation.
- Assets & Lifecycle Planning: Support with asset management and tagging across local area. Support asset lifecycle planning by identifying risks and opportunities for investment (capital & operational).
- Tools & Techniques: Maintain capital and operational budgets and expenditure in collaboration with stakeholders. Develop and maintain dashboards to visualise KPIs, timelines, budget drawdown.
- Risk, Opportunity & Issue Management: Support maintenance of risk & opportunity registers. Ensure timely escalation and reporting. Identify and mitigate delivery risks.
- Change Control: Adhere to change control processes, ensuring accurate documentation and tracking. Support review and approval workflows per governance protocols.
- Stakeholder & Communications Management: Ensure effective engagement with stakeholders and cross-functional collaboration, including central business and buyer teams
- Performance Measurement & Reporting: Support definition and tracking of project delivery KPIs. Produce reports and insights to aid understanding of budget health / decision-making at project and portfolio levels.
- Reviews & Continuous Improvement: Support lessons learned sessions & embed findings into future delivery. Support continuous improvement and best practice sharing.
- Customer-Centric Delivery: Support initiatives to measure and improve delivery. Embed feedback into delivery processes to support a "Customer Love" culture.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
Essential:
- Experience in a Business Planning / Finance function; strong business acumen
- Experience working with Capital and/or Operational budgets
- Proven budget / forecasting skills
- Excellent communication & interpersonal skills
- Strong stakeholder reporting & engagement skills
- High attention to detail & organisational skills
- Understanding of planning cycles with ability to adapt to local business context
- Experience with cost management processes (e.g. QCRA, VfM)
- Strong analytical and data interpretation skills
- Experience with Tableau or similar tools
- Proficient in MS Tools
- Knowledge of risk, issue, and change control processes

Desirable:
- Experience with SAP or similar finance tool
- Experience in engineering, infrastructure, or technical projects
- Knowledge of lifecycle frameworks (e.g. RIBA, V-model) including costing
- Familiarity with project methodologies (e.g. APM, PRINCE2)
- Exposure to portfolio-level reporting
- Degree or equivalent experience in Business / Finance / Accounting
- Familiarity with Confluence / collaborative platforms
- Experience supporting lessons learned & continuous improvement
- Financial tracking and budget reporting
- Asset management experience
- Experience with leading or supporting audits
- Proficient in Jira / codi

Additional information:
This role is on a contract basis and is Inside IR35.
The position runs through until the end of March 2027 covering maternity leave.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment Business.
Premea is a specialist IT & Engineering recruitment consultancy representing clients in the UK and internationally within the Automotive, Motorsport and Aerospace sectors.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment business.