Finance Business Partner - Cubis - NL

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. The successful candidate will have the following responsibilities:

 

Key Accountabilities:

 

• 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.

 

Associated Responsibilities:

 

• 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.

 

Key Performance Indicators:

 

1. Timely and accurate production of performance management information.

 

2. Strong collaboration with the various business functions, working together to improve business

 

performance.

 

3. Provision of relevant financial information to support business decision making, which ultimately results

 

in the best outcome in relation to financial performance.

 

4. Understanding and ownership by the business of financial budgets, forecasts and actual performance.

 

5. Improved reporting, with automation where possible to free up time for review and analysis.

 

Experience and Training:

 

• 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.

 

Essential Criteria:

 

• 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