Site Finance Business Partner

Croda International • Alabaster, AL

11h • Onsite

About The Position

The Site Finance Business Partner is the senior finance role at a manufacturing site, providing financial leadership and practical decision support to site leadership. The role leads financial reporting, analysis, controls, and constructive challenge, translating operational activity into useful financial insight and actions. It supports budgets, forecasts, month-end reporting, cost and stock reporting, margin analysis, standard costing, business cases, and capital investment requests.

This hands-on role combines financial control with operational business partnering. The successful candidate will build relationships with site leadership and operational teams, explain financial information in practical terms, investigate performance issues, and follow actions through to resolution. The role has no direct reports and works with operational managers, functional teams, finance colleagues, systems and data teams, auditors, advisers, and other stakeholders.

The position is on-site, with associated travel, and based at Croda’s corporate headquarters in Alabaster, Alabama. The reporting line is to the Site Finance Leader, Regional Finance Manager, or equivalent. The annual base salary range is $120,000–$150,000; additional compensation such as annual bonuses or other incentives may be offered based on eligibility and company policies.

Croda describes its purpose as “Smart science to improve lives™” and its values as Responsible, Innovative, and Together. The company states that it is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

Requirements

• 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.
• Understanding of manufacturing transactions, stock movements, inventory reconciliation, and the connection between operational and financial data.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to identify root causes and clearly explain findings.
• Commercial and operational awareness, with credibility to work with site leadership and challenge constructively.
• Professional accounting qualification through ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or an international equivalent.
• Ability to build effective partnerships, communicate clearly, investigate performance issues rigorously, and follow them through to resolution.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted finance partner to site leadership, providing practical challenge and decision support.
• Provide timely, accurate, clearly understood financial reporting and analysis to site leaders.
• Improve financial understanding and accountability across operational teams.
• Support site business and performance reviews with insight into risks, opportunities, and follow-up actions.
• Deliver accurate site month-end reporting, budgets, and forecasts.
• 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.
• 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 to support practical operational action.
• Improve the connection between manufacturing transactions, operational data, and financial results.
• Provide 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.
• Establish a consistent site performance-review rhythm with clear ownership of financial actions.
• Build 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.
• Balance attention to detail with awareness of wider site priorities and handle commercially sensitive information with sound judgment and discretion.

Benefits

• Additional compensation, such as annual bonuses or other incentives, may be offered based on eligibility and company policies.
• Reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed