Site Finance Business Partner

ROLE PROFILE

Drive Financial Performance and Operational Decision Making Across a Manufacturing Site

Manufacturing performance depends on accurate financial insight, disciplined cost management, strong controls, and the ability to translate operational activity into meaningful business decisions. Site leaders need a finance partner who can connect financial results with the operational drivers behind performance.

The Site Finance Business Partner is the senior finance role on site, providing accurate, timely and practical financial leadership to the site''s leadership team. The role leads reporting, analysis, control and constructive challenge across site financial performance, while supporting budgets, forecasts, month-end reporting, cost and stock reporting, margin analysis, standard costing, business cases and capital investment requests.

This is a highly visible role with a direct impact on financial reporting, cost control, and operational decision making. Success requires a detailed understanding of manufacturing processes, stock movements, cost drivers, and operating performance, combined with the ability to turn data into clear actions for finance and non-finance stakeholders.

Why Join Croda Now?

Croda continues to strengthen operational excellence, manufacturing performance, and financial discipline across its sites. Finance plays a critical role in helping site leadership teams understand performance, identify risk and opportunity, and make informed decisions about cost, inventory, investment and operational priorities.

This role offers the opportunity to become a trusted adviser to site leadership, combining hands-on financial control with practical business partnerships and measurable influence on site performance.

What Success Looks Like

Financial Leadership & Site Business Partnership

• Serve as the trusted finance partner to site leadership, providing practical challenges and decision support.
• Ensure site leaders receive timely, accurate and clearly understood financial reporting and analysis.
• Improve financial understanding and accountability across operational teams.
• Support site business and performance reviews with clear insight, risks, opportunities and follow-up actions.

Cost Control & Financial Performance

• Deliver accurate month-end reporting, budgets and forecasts for the site.
• Improve visibility of costs, margins, overheads, and operational drivers of financial performance.
• Investigate variances, identify root causes and ensure issues are followed through to resolution.
• Strengthen forecast quality and support disciplined budget and overhead management.

Inventory, Costing & Manufacturing Insight

• Strengthen inventory accounting, stock reporting, reconciliation and provision processes.
• Maintain robust standard costing, overhead absorption and standard-cost update processes.
• Explain manufacturing variances and stock movements in a way that supports practical operational action.
• Improve the connection between manufacturing transactions, operational data, and financial results.

Investment Support, Controls & Continuous Improvement

• Provide robust financial support for business cases and capital investment requests.
• Maintain strong site financial controls and support internal and external audit requirements.
• Use SAP, reporting, and analytics tools to improve insight into cost, stock, and manufacturing performance.
• Continuously improve site reporting, analysis and finance processes.

First-Year Build Agenda

• Establish a consistent site performance-review rhythm with clear ownership of financial actions.
• Improve visibility of manufacturing cost drivers, stock movements, and operational variances.
• Strengthen forecasting, budget management, and cost-control processes.
• Prioritize practical reporting and analytics improvements that support faster, better-informed decisions.

Operating Style

This is a hands-on finance leadership role focused on operational support, financial control, and credible business partnerships. The successful candidate will be expected to:

• Build strong relationships with site leadership, operational teams, and finance colleagues.
• Translate technical financial information into practical actions for non-finance stakeholders.
• Challenge constructively while remaining solutions focused and commercially aware.
• Investigate performance issues rigorously and follow them through to resolution.
• Balance attention to detail with a clear understanding of wider site priorities.
• Handle commercially sensitive information with sound judgment and discretion.

Core Capabilities

Strategic Perspective: Connect site performance, operational priorities and financial outcomes to support sustainable improvement.

Delivery: Translate analysis into measurable actions that improve financial and operational performance.

Working Together: Build effective partnerships with site leadership, operational teams and Finance colleagues.

Adaptability: Respond to changing operational priorities while maintaining financial discipline and control.

Curiosity: Investigate variances, identify root causes and continuously improve understanding of site performance.

Authenticity: Challenge constructively, communicate clearly and build trust through credibility and follow-through.

Experience & Expertise

• Finance business partnering experience in a manufacturing, operations, industrial, chemical, pharmaceutical or similar production environment.
• Strong understanding of month-end processes, budgeting, forecasting, cost reporting and financial controls.
• Experience with standard costing, manufacturing variance analysis, overhead absorption, inventory accounting, inventory provisions and stock controls.
• Strong SAP capability, including extracting, analyzing and interpreting financial and operational data.
• Good understanding of manufacturing transactions, stock movements, inventory reconciliation and the connection between operational and financial data.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify root causes and clearly explain findings.
• Commercial and operational awareness, with the credibility to work with site leadership and challenge constructively.
• Professional accounting qualifications through ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or an international equivalent.

Role Scope

Senior site finance responsibility with no direct reports. The role partners with site leadership, operational managers, functional teams, finance colleagues, systems and data teams, auditors, advisers and other stakeholders relevant to site performance. It supports reporting, forecasting, inventory, manufacturing analysis, business cases and capital investment decisions. Reporting line: Site Finance Leader, Regional Finance Manager or equivalent.

Why Croda

At Croda, our purpose is Smart science to improve lives.

As a global leader in specialty ingredients and life sciences innovation, we partner with customers to solve complex challenges that improve health, sustainability and quality of life around the world.

Our success is built on the expertise of our people and a culture grounded in our values of Responsible, Innovative, and Together. We believe diverse perspectives, scientific curiosity, collaborative leadership, and practical execution create the conditions for sustainable growth and meaningful impact.

Joining Croda means becoming part of a business where your work will directly contribute to customer success, business performance, and innovations that improve lives globally.

Additional Information

This is an on-site position with associated travel based at our corporate headquarters in Alabaster, AL.

Annual Base Salary Range: $120,000 - $150,000

This range reflects the base salary the company reasonably expects to pay for this position. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, experience, education, and skill level. Additional compensation, such as annual bonuses or other incentives, may be offered based on eligibility and company policies.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Croda is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Croda recognizes employees as our strength and the diversity they bring to our workforce are directly linked to our ongoing success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including age, race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants'' and employees'' religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.

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