• Translate complex operational and financial data into clear, decision-ready insights and recommendations for operational and executive stakeholders.

• Support the SVP and Global Operations leadership in preparing high-quality financial analysis and presentations for Group Leadership Team reviews.

• Drive a culture of financial ownership and accountability throughout the Global Operations organisation.

Supply chain, procurement and manufacturing performance

• Partner with Procurement and Supply Chain leadership to establish and maintain a structured cost-savings pipeline.

• Identify cost-reduction opportunities, challenge targets, validate the realisation of savings and provide transparent reporting on progress.

• Challenge procurement assumptions and supplier pricing using market data, historical benchmarks and cost modelling.

• Support sourcing decisions and supplier negotiations to help Evac achieve optimal value from its supply base.

• Provide financial leadership and support to Evac's manufacturing operations, helping to improve operational efficiency, cost competitiveness, inventory management and supply chain performance.

• Work with operational leaders to deliver cost-productivity and efficiency initiatives and ensure that expected financial benefits are realised.

Planning, performance and working capital

• Lead budgeting, rolling forecasting and financial planning for Global Operations, working collaboratively with sales segments and other functions.

• Integrate financial performance into the Sales and Operations Planning process, ensuring that financial targets are reconciled with operational capacity, delivery plans and supply chain constraints.

• Take ownership of key Group working-capital measures relating to Operations, including inventory levels and locations, Days Inventory Outstanding and direct cost-related Days Payable Outstanding.

• Drive systemic improvement in working-capital management and Group cash conversion.

• Provide accurate, timely and insight-led financial reporting, supported by the commercial narrative required by senior stakeholders.

• Identify recurring risks and patterns of underperformance and work with operational leaders to address their underlying causes.

Finance development and transformation

• Participate actively in the design, implementation and continuing development of the global ERP system to be introduced throughout Evac Group.

• Partner with the data analytics team to move from static reporting towards predictive analysis, real-time cost tracking and more sophisticated cost modelling.

• Champion financial understanding across Global Operations, helping operational colleagues engage with financial performance measures and cost drivers.

• Act as a trusted finance resource for Procurement, Supply Chain and Manufacturing leaders requiring financial guidance, business-case support or performance interpretation.

• Contribute actively to the wider Evac finance community, sharing best practice and supporting Group-wide finance initiatives and process-improvement programmes.

• Help build a more commercially impactful, consistent and scalable Finance Business Partnering model across the Group.

How success is measured

• Measurable improvement in direct material and logistics costs and manufacturing efficiency.

• Delivery of validated procurement and sourcing savings.

• Stronger inventory management and improved working-capital performance.

• Reliable, timely and insight-led budgets, forecasts and financial reporting.

• Effective integration of financial performance into the Sales and Operations Planning process.

• High-quality financial evaluation of sourcing, investment, manufacturing and transformation decisions.

• Clear identification and structural resolution of recurring performance issues.

• Effective financial contribution to the design, implementation and development of Evac's global ERP system.

• Increased financial ownership and accountability across Global Operations.

• Positive and credible influence on senior operational decisions without formal line authority.

Your profile

• A relevant degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or a related discipline.

• At least 10 years of progressive finance experience in an international industrial, engineering or project-based organisation.

• Strong working knowledge of IFRS and the ability to explain financial and accounting principles clearly to non-finance stakeholders.

• A proven track record as a Finance Business Partner to Operations, Supply Chain or Procurement, demonstrably influencing decisions rather than simply reporting results.

• Experience in supply chain finance and procurement cost management, including direct material costs, sourcing decisions, cost modelling and savings validation.

• Financial experience supporting complex international manufacturing, operations or supply chain environments.

• Experience of budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, business-case analysis and working-capital management.

• Strong commercial judgement and the confidence to challenge assumptions and ask difficult questions while remaining a constructive and trusted partner.

• Demonstrated ability to drive change, shape behaviour and create accountability without formal authority in a global matrix organisation.

• Advanced Excel and financial-modelling skills, together with strong proficiency in ERP, BI and data-analysis tools.

• The ability to translate complex financial information into clear, practical and impactful messages for operational and executive audiences.

• A proactive, hands-on and improvement-oriented approach, with the ability to move effectively between strategic analysis and operational detail.

• Fluent written and spoken English; additional language skills are considered an advantage.

• Experience of ERP implementation, finance transformation or advanced operational analytics would be considered an advantage.