<p></p><h3>Dynamics 365 Platform Manager</h3><p><strong>6 Month FTC | Remote | £105,000 Pro Rata</strong></p><p>I'm working with a client seeking an experienced <strong>Dynamics 365 Platform Manager</strong> to take ownership of their D365 Finance & Supply Chain environment.</p><p>You'll be responsible for platform management, stakeholder engagement, vendor management, release planning, testing and driving ongoing improvements across the D365 estate.</p><p><strong>Key Requirements</strong></p><ul><li>Dynamics 365 F&O / F&SCM experience</li><li>ERP application or platform ownership</li><li>Release and change management</li><li>Strong stakeholder and supplier management skills</li></ul><p>📍 Remote<br /> ⏳ 6 Month FTC<br /> 💷 £105,000 Pro Rata</p><p>Interested? Get in touch for a confidential conversation</p><br><p> </p><br><p> </p><p> </p><p>Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. Rates of pay and salary ranges are dependent upon your experience, qualifications and training. If you wish to apply, please read our Privacy Notice describing how we may process, disclose and store your personal data: roberthalf.com/gb/en/privacy-notice.</p><img src="https://counter.adcourier.com/cXVpbi53b29kaGVhZC45OTcwMC4xMDkyM0ByaGkuYXBsaXRyYWsuY29t.gif">
<p data-pm-slice="1 3 []">We are seeking an experienced IT Manager to lead a small technical team and oversee IT infrastructure, systems and support services across a multi-site organisation. This is a permanent role paying up to £63,500 plus company car, with hybrid working after successful completion of probation.</p><p>This is a hands-on leadership role, combining day-to-day operational responsibility with project delivery, team development and continuous improvement. You will work closely with business systems colleagues to ensure technology supports business performance, security and efficiency.</p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p><ul data-spread="false"><li><p>Lead, mentor and develop the internal IT team, promoting accountability and continuous improvement.</p></li><li><p>Oversee IT support, service desk operations and service level agreements.</p></li><li><p>Manage IT infrastructure, including servers, networks, applications, devices and communications.</p></li><li><p>Plan and deliver IT projects, managing resources, budgets, suppliers and timescales.</p></li><li><p>Support IT strategy, technology improvements and business transformation initiatives.</p></li><li><p>Maintain cyber security, data protection, system updates and IT governance.</p></li><li><p>Develop and test business continuity and disaster recovery arrangements.</p></li><li><p>Provide hands-on technical support and troubleshooting when required</p></li></ul><p><strong>About You</strong></p><ul data-spread="false"><li><p>Strong knowledge of Microsoft technologies, including Windows Server, Microsoft 365, Azure/Entra ID, Active Directory, SharePoint Online and SQL Server.</p></li><li><p>Good understanding of networking, storage, virtualisation and remote desktop technologies.</p></li><li><p>Knowledge of cyber security, GDPR and IT governance.</p></li><li><p>Proven IT project management and service delivery experience.</p></li><li><p>Strong leadership, communication, organisational and problem-solving skills.</p></li><li><p>A proactive, hands-on approach with a focus on ownership and continuous improvement.</p></li></ul><p><strong>On Offer</strong></p><ul><li>Salary up to £63,500</li><li>Company car</li><li>Hybrid working - 3 days a week in Melksham</li><li>Competitive benefits</li></ul><p>Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. Rates of pay and salary ranges are dependent upon your experience, qualifications and training. If you wish to apply, please read our Privacy Notice describing how we may process, disclose and store your personal data: roberthalf.com/gb/en/privacy-notice.</p><img src="https://counter.adcourier.com/Um94eS5MYXcuMzU2MTEuMTA5MjNAcmhpLmFwbGl0cmFrLmNvbQ.gif">
<p>Exciting opportunity to join a well established and growing business based in Wantage as Infrastructure Team Leader, offering excellent career progression and development and competitive salary/package.</p><p><strong>The Role</strong></p><p>As Infrastructure Team Leader, you'll be responsible for:</p><ul><li>leading a small team of infrastructure specialists, responsible for monitoring, supporting and maintaining a reliable and high-performing server, storage and data-centre infrastructure </li><li>coordinating activities with internal and 3rd party resources across multiple international sites </li><li>lead continuous improvement of backups, disaster recovery and monitoring processes</li><li>identify opportunities to implement new technologies in line with IT strategy, driving automation and continuous improvement</li><li>maintaining standards and adhering to compliance processes and procedures, in line with various IT and security frameworks </li><li>lead on exciting infrastructure change projects and initiatives</li></ul><p><strong>About you</strong></p><p>Applicants for the Infrastructure Team Leader role will:</p><ul><li>have sound experience gained as an infrastructure engineer, systems administrator, or similar, with strong knowledge across storage, server and data-centres, in particular Microsoft based infrastructure</li><li>be experienced with hyper-visor technologies (e.g. VMWare, Hyper-V, Nutanix, Proxmox)</li><li>have knowledge or experience of automation / orchestration (e.g. Ansible, Terraform) and container platforms (e.g. Kubernetes) would be beneficial </li><li>be comfortable working in a regulated environment and experience driving compliance with frameworks / standards</li><li>be comfortable working in an office based environment and with occasional international travel</li></ul><p><strong>On offer</strong></p><p>Competitive salary and benefits package, including generous pension, bonus, private medical and flexible working hours</p><p>Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. Rates of pay and salary ranges are dependent upon your experience, qualifications and training. If you wish to apply, please read our Privacy Notice describing how we may process, disclose and store your personal data: roberthalf.com/gb/en/privacy-notice.</p><img src="https://counter.adcourier.com/cGV0ZXIuZWx3YXJkLjczODg5LjEwOTIzQHJoaS5hcGxpdHJhay5jb20.gif">
<p>Robert Half is partnering with a growing engineering company who are looking to appoint an experienced <strong>Finance Manager</strong> to lead its finance function and support the senior leadership team with commercial and operational decision-making.</p><p>The successful candidate will play a key role in driving financial performance while managing day-to-day finance operations and a small accounts team.</p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p><ul><li>Production of monthly management accounts, budgets, forecasts and cashflow reporting</li><li>Business partnering with senior leadership, providing financial and commercial insight</li><li>Managing payroll, VAT and statutory reporting requirements</li><li>Overseeing sales ledger, purchase ledger, credit control and supplier payments</li><li>Ensuring robust financial controls and identifying opportunities for process improvement</li><li>Managing and developing a small finance team</li><li>Supporting year-end processes and liaising with external advisors</li></ul><p><strong>About You</strong></p><ul><li>ACCA, ACA, CIMA qualified or qualified by experience</li><li>Previous experience in a Finance Manager or senior finance position</li><li>Experience in construction, engineering, manufacturing or contracting environments</li><li>Commercially minded with the ability to influence and challenge stakeholders</li><li>Comfortable operating in a hands-on SME environment</li><li>Able to manage multiple priorities and drive improvements across the finance function</li></ul><p> </p><p>Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. Rates of pay and salary ranges are dependent upon your experience, qualifications and training. If you wish to apply, please read our Privacy Notice describing how we may process, disclose and store your personal data: roberthalf.com/gb/en/privacy-notice.</p><img src="https://counter.adcourier.com/Q2FybGllLldpbGxpYW1zLjUzNDI3LjEwOTIzQHJoaS5hcGxpdHJhay5jb20.gif">
<p>Robert Half has partnered with an established engineering firm to recruit for a newly created role of Principal Data Scientist and Machine Learning Researcher. This is a permanent role, based in Gloucester or Manchester, with competitive salary and benefits.</p><p>As you will be working within a highly secure technology environment, the successful candidate will need to be able to obtain eDV and SC clearance. </p><p><strong>The Role</strong></p><ul dir="ltr"><li>Supporting the Head of Data Science & Machine Learning to shape group strategy and engage stakeholders</li><li>Generating ideas for novel research that create competitive advantage across the customer community</li><li>Working autonomously to develop complex, novel data science solutions</li><li>Helping triage and respond to new opportunities, aligned to group and wider business strategy</li><li>Designing and delivering data-centric solutions in collaboration with colleagues across disciplines</li><li>Leading the technical delivery of research and applied AI/ML work on both customer and internal projects</li><li>Providing technical leadership across multiple projects</li><li>Managing and developing more junior members of the SRG team</li><li>Delivering AI, ML and data science solutions to a broad range of defence problems</li></ul><p><strong>About You</strong></p><ul><li>Several years' experience delivering novel ML solutions to customers and internal stakeholders</li><li>Proven experience as a Senior/Principal Data Scientist with ability to guide and coach the team</li><li>Excellent Python coding practice, including ML libraries such as HuggingFace, TensorFlow and PyTorch</li><li>Experience building robust ML pipelines with MLOps tools for model training, monitoring and deployment</li><li>Experience with version control and environment management (e.g. venvs, Docker)</li><li>Expert knowledge of AI/ML algorithms across different data types and tasks, including Generative AI, NLP and computer vision, sufficient to propose research beyond the existing literature</li><li>Hands-on experience training and developing AI models, including Large Language Models</li></ul><p>This is a permanent opportunity with a competitive salary package, additional clearance-related allowance and the chance to work on technically challenging, security-focused programmes. Due to the nature of the work, suitability and eligibility requirements will apply.</p><p>If you have the relevant background and would be open to a confidential conversation, please get in touch.</p><p> </p><p>Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. Rates of pay and salary ranges are dependent upon your experience, qualifications and training. If you wish to apply, please read our Privacy Notice describing how we may process, disclose and store your personal data: roberthalf.com/gb/en/privacy-notice.</p><img src="https://counter.adcourier.com/Um94eS5MYXcuNzM5MTMuMTA5MjNAcmhpLmFwbGl0cmFrLmNvbQ.gif">
<p><strong>Assistant Management Accountant</strong></p><p><strong>Manufacturing | Port Talbot, South Wales</strong><br /> <strong>Location:</strong> Port Talbot, South Wales<br /> <strong>Reporting to:</strong> Financial Controller</p><p><strong>An exciting opportunity to join a growing manufacturing business:</strong></p><p>Are you a commercially minded finance professional looking to develop your career in management accounting within a fast-paced manufacturing environment?</p><p>We are seeking a motivated, analytical and detail-oriented <strong>Assistant Management Accountant</strong> to join our finance team at our manufacturing operation in Port Talbot.</p><p>This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys working with numbers but also wants to understand the bigger commercial picture. You will play an important role in providing accurate financial information, analysing manufacturing costs and helping the business improve operational efficiency and profitability.</p><p>Working closely with the Finance team and colleagues across Production, Procurement, Engineering and Operations, you will gain valuable exposure to the financial and operational drivers of a manufacturing business. You will be encouraged to challenge variances, identify opportunities for improvement and turn financial data into meaningful business insight.</p><p>We are looking for someone who is proactive, curious and keen to make a difference, with the ambition to develop their management accounting skills and contribute to the continued success of the business.</p><p> </p><p><strong>The Role: </strong></p><p>Reporting to the Finance Manager or Management Accountant, you will support the preparation of monthly management accounts, manufacturing cost analysis, budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting.</p><p>You will work closely with operational teams to understand production performance, investigate cost variances and ensure that stock, work in progress and manufacturing costs are accurately recorded and reported.</p><p>This is a hands-on role offering the opportunity to develop both your technical accounting expertise and your commercial understanding of manufacturing operations.</p><p><strong>Key responsibilities:</strong></p><p><strong>Management accounts and financial reporting</strong></p><ol><ul><li>Assist with the preparation of accurate and timely monthly management accounts.</li><li>Prepare journals, accruals, prepayments and balance sheet reconciliations.</li><li>Analyse actual performance against budgets, forecasts and prior periods.</li><li>Produce financial reports and clear commentary explaining key movements and variances.</li><li>Support month-end and year-end close processes, ensuring reporting deadlines are achieved.</li></ul></ol><p><strong>Manufacturing cost accounting:</strong></p><ol><ul><li>Monitor and analyse raw material, direct labour and manufacturing overhead costs.</li><li>Assist with product costing, standard costing and cost of sales calculations.</li><li>Investigate material price and usage variances, labour efficiency and production overhead variances.</li><li>Analyse scrap, waste, rework and production losses to identify opportunities for cost reduction.</li><li>Monitor production costs and, where relevant, cost per unit or tonne produced.</li><li>Work with operational managers to understand cost movements and improve manufacturing performance.</li></ul></ol><p><strong>Stock and inventory control:</strong></p><ol><ul><li>Assist with stock valuation, work-in-progress reporting and inventory reconciliations.</li><li>Support periodic and year-end stock counts, investigating discrepancies and unusual movements.</li><li>Monitor slow-moving, obsolete and excess stock.</li><li>Reconcile goods received not invoiced and investigate outstanding items.</li><li>Work with Warehouse, Procurement and Production teams to improve inventory accuracy and control.</li></ul></ol><p><strong>Budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis:</strong></p><ol><ul><li>Support the annual budgeting process and regular financial forecasts.</li><li>Monitor departmental expenditure against approved budgets.</li><li>Assist with forecasting material costs, labour, energy, maintenance and other operating expenses.</li><li>Investigate significant variances and provide insight into the financial performance of the business.</li><li>Identify opportunities to improve cost control, efficiency and profitability.</li></ul></ol><p><strong>Business partnering and continuous improvement:</strong></p><ol><ul><li>Build effective working relationships with Production, Engineering, Procurement, Warehouse and Commercial teams.</li><li>Provide financial information that helps non-finance colleagues understand business performance.</li><li>Support investment appraisals and capital expenditure monitoring where required.</li><li>Contribute to improvements in financial reporting, accounting processes and internal controls.</li><li>Undertake ad hoc analysis and reporting to support the Finance team and wider business.</li></ul></ol><p><strong>About you:</strong></p><p>We are looking for someone who combines sound accounting knowledge with strong analytical skills, commercial awareness and a genuine interest in understanding how a manufacturing business operates.</p><p>You will be organised, proactive and comfortable working to deadlines. You will also have the confidence to investigate discrepancies, ask questions and work collaboratively with colleagues across the business.</p><p><strong>Essential skills and experience:</strong></p><ol><ul><li>Experience in a finance or accounting role, ideally with exposure to management accounts, month-end processes or financial analysis.</li><li>AAT qualified or part-qualified, or actively studying towards ACCA, CIMA or ACA; equivalent relevant experience will also be considered.</li><li>A good understanding of accounting principles, reconciliations and financial reporting.</li><li>Strong Microsoft Excel skills and confidence working with financial data.</li><li>Excellent attention to detail and a methodical approach to problem-solving.</li><li>The ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines.</li><li>Clear communication skills and the ability to work effectively with colleagues across different departments.</li></ul></ol><p><strong>Desirable experience:</strong></p><ol><ul><li>Experience within manufacturing, engineering or another operationally focused business.</li><li>Exposure to manufacturing cost accounting, standard costing, stock valuation or work in progress.</li><li>Experience using ERP or accounting systems such as SAP, Sage or Microsoft Dynamics.</li><li>An understanding of budgeting, forecasting, cost centre reporting and variance analysis.</li></ul></ol><p> </p><p><strong>Most importantly, we are looking for someone with the right attitude, a willingness to learn and the motivation to develop into a strong management accounting professional.</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>What we offer:</strong></p><ol><ul><li>The opportunity to develop your career within a manufacturing finance environment.</li><li>Exposure to manufacturing operations, product costing and commercial decision-making.</li><li>The chance to work closely with experienced finance and operational professionals.</li><li>Opportunities to broaden your management accounting and business partnering skills.</li><li>A role where your analysis and recommendations can make a tangible difference to business performance.</li><li>A supportive environment in which to build your technical knowledge and professional qualifications.</li></ul></ol><p> </p><p>Salary, pension, annual leave, study support and other benefits will be confirmed as part of the recruitment process.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Why join us?</strong></p><p>This is more than a traditional finance role. You will have the opportunity to understand the relationship between financial performance and manufacturing operations, develop commercially valuable skills and contribute directly to better business decisions.</p><p>If you are looking for a role where you can build your expertise, take ownership of your work and progress your career in management accounting, we would welcome your application.</p><p> </p><p><strong>How to apply:</strong></p><p>If you have the accounting knowledge, analytical mindset and enthusiasm to succeed in this role, we would love to hear from you.</p><p>Please submit your CV outlining your relevant experience, qualifications and interest in the position.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Apply now to take the next step in your finance career.</strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. Rates of pay and salary ranges are dependent upon your experience, qualifications and training. If you wish to apply, please read our Privacy Notice describing how we may process, disclose and store your personal data: roberthalf.com/gb/en/privacy-notice.</p><img src="https://counter.adcourier.com/THVuYS5QZXNjZS40MTM4Ni4xMDkyM0ByaGkuYXBsaXRyYWsuY29t.gif">