Forward Deployed Operator - Finance (Business Controller)
About the role
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Onodrim is building Europe's largest defence and industrial platform. We acquire specialist manufacturers in critical defence and dual-use supply chains, then invest behind their growth with capital, technology and operating know-how.
Forward Deployed Operators are Onodrim's people on the ground. You'll embed inside the companies we acquire – plants, lines and the offices that run them – and own one part of making them grow. For this role, that part is the finance.
The manufacturers we buy are often decades old and owner-run, with a bookkeeper, an external accountant, a chart of accounts that has grown by accretion, limited cash management and product costs recalculations. The Forward Deployed Operator for Finance walks in after an acquisition and builds the real picture: what each product actually costs, where cash is tied up in inventory and receivables, what the plant's numbers look like against budget and prior years, and what it would take to close the books in days rather than weeks. Then you fix what matters, with the company's own people, bring the company into the group's reporting, and stay until it sticks.
This is not a head-office finance job. One week you'll be rebuilding the costing model with the production planner; the next, setting up a monthly close with the bookkeeper and mapping the ledger to the group chart of accounts; the next, building the business case for a capex decision with the Production Engineering Operator and the plant director. It is what a finance lead does for a company, done repeatedly across our portfolio.
What you'll do
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- Diagnose the finance function. In the first weeks on site, rebuild the P&L, balance sheet and cash position from the ledger, assess the people, processes and tools, and find where the numbers are wrong, late or missing.
- Get product costs right. Build or rebuild product and process costing with production – materials...
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