Finance Business Partner

As the Finance Business Partner, you will play a pivotal role in driving financial insight and strategic guidance across DEEP Manufacturing. Working closely with senior leaders, you will ensure financial decisions align with overall business strategy and deliver improved financial performance. You will act as the liaison between finance, operations and the DEEP Portfolio Group, providing key financial analysis, risk management, and guidance to support both day-to-day operations and long-term strategic goals.

• Financial Planning & Analysis: Lead the financial planning process, including budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial projections and provide ongoing financial analysis on profitability, cost management, and variance analysis for the business’s operations and projects.
• Business Partnering: Collaborate with department heads, particularly engineering, production, supply chain, and project management, to ensure financial insights drive business decisions. Also, act as a strategic partner to senior leadership in evaluating new business opportunities, investments, and expansion projects within the marine sector.
• Cost Control & Optimisation: Oversee cost management initiatives, ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget and develop, track and report on key operational metrics including production costs, material costs, and manufacturing efficiencies. You will also work closely with Procurement and Supply Chain to manage inventory costs, vendor contracts and pricing strategies.
• Financial Reporting & Compliance: Work with the DEEP Finance team to implement and maintain monthly management reporting, presenting meaningful key insights to leadership and stakeholders across P&L, Capex and cash flows.
• Customer Project Costing & Revenue Tracking: Work with commercial, Engineering, and Production to build project-level costing models for customer builds and prototypes and also track actual vs estimated costs for customer projects, including labour, system usage, consumable costs, contractor costs and overheads.
• Risk Management: Identify financial risks related to the additive manufacturing industry and processes, and propose mitigation strategies. You will also lead scenario planning and stress-testing of financial plans in relation to industry-specific risks such as fluctuating raw material costs, supply chain disruptions, and market demand shifts.
• Continuous Improvement: Support the integration of new technologies and automation tools to help streamline financial processes and foster a culture of continuous improvement, challenging existing processes and identify areas for financial efficiency.

What you will need 

• Bachelors Degree in Finance, Accounting or related field
• Additional certifications such as CPA/CFA/ACCA/CIMA are desirable
• Previous experience within a Financial Business Partnering role, preferably within manufacturing or Industrial sectors (Marine/heavy manufacturing is highly desirable)
• In-depth understanding of cost accounting and project-based finance, ideally in a manufacturing environment
• Excellent financial acumen with demonstrable experience in FP&A, budgeting and forecasting
• Proven business partnering experience with the ability to influence senior management and operations teams
• Proficiency in ERP systems and financial modelling software (Excel, PowerBI, SAP)

 What’s in it for you

 

Salary – Highly competitive

Bonus – Performance related bonus scheme

Annual Leave – 25 days, plus statutory holidays

Private Healthcare – Able to add family members at an extra cost

Working Hours – Monday to Friday on-site 

Lunch – Free lunch and breakfast provided onsite alongside snacks

 

Who we are

DEEP is an international design and engineering company on a mission to make humans aquatic. We’re doing this by advancing ocean exploration through the development of new technologies that will enable humans to live and work in underwater environments for longer periods of time.

95% of the ocean is unexplored. Countless discoveries are waiting to be made, and knowledge gained, that will benefit our planet and all of humanity. The challenge is access, and that’s where DEEP comes in. We’re building subsea human habitats to enable research at depth and increase our understanding of the ocean, so we can help protect it.

DEEP Manufacturing

DEEP Manufacturing, based in Avonmouth (Bristol) offers advanced manufacturing capabilities and expertise in large-format metal additive manufacturing, rapid prototyping and material testing. Our advanced manufacturing facilities include a state-of-the-art robotics suite, offering 3D printing services and Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) capabilities which means we can deliver manufacturing projects in less time and at lower costs compared to traditional manufacturing processes.

Working at DEEP

We’re a team of highly experienced engineering, operations and safety experts, with a funding model that allows us the freedom to think long term and pursue our mission without traditional restraints. We want to drive progress at the forefront of deep-sea innovation and discovery to become stewards of the ocean and reshape our relationship with our planet.

As an organization with multi-generational objectives and ambitious goals, the values we bring to work every day are critical:

Be Curious – Find a better way and ask why not?”. Answers are easy, questions are hard – ask original questions and be a curiosity catalyst!

Be Exceptional – It will take the most intelligent, talented and creative people on the planet working together to achieve DEEP’s mission. Get it done, be relentless in your pursuit of excellence, and demand excellence from everyone.

Be Fearless – No one has done this on the scale we’re doing it before. Impossible things must be done for the first time. We are the team pushing boundaries!

Be Good – Cultivate passion and thrive together. Be safe, take intelligent risks, but never compromise the safety of the team – ever!

 

At DEEP, we celebrate and embrace diversity and inclusion and strongly believe that the best innovations come from diverse perspectives. We invite applicants from all backgrounds to join us in creating technology that makes a meaningful impact on humanity, our oceans and planet.