Finance Manager - Group
Proud to deliver high quality products and develop a high- quality career.
Salary Competitive Salary
Benefits £8,400 Car Allowance, up to 25% Bonus, Private Healthcare for family
Location: Spalding
Ways of Working Hybrid
Houts of work Monday to Friday - 37.5 hours
Contract Type Permanent
Why join us?
We're proud to offer you a career with possibilities. Where you'll be supported to work hard, aim high and bring your best to work, every day. As a valued Finance Manager, we'll support your ambition, reward your resilience, and encourage you to rise to challenges and create a career you can be proud of too.
What We Do
We're the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry - supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose.
About the Role
The Finance Manager takes responsibility for the effective and efficient delivery of forecasting and reporting for both operating and capital expenditure for IT and specific areas of Group overheads.
Responsibilities
Performance Reporting & Business Partnering Summary
Financial Monitoring & Reporting: Oversee Group overhead expenditure, provides early warnings on budget overruns, and delivers timely performance reports to support financial targets and KPIs.
Variance Analysis & Modelling: Investigates budget variances and supports cost-saving through forecasting and financial modelling to inform business decisions.
IT & Business Partnering: Leads account consolidation, develops overhead reporting, and collaborates across teams to ensure accurate financial representation.
Financial Control & Decision-Making: Establishes and drives financial control processes across services, projects, and IT cost allocation.
Rolling Forecast
Leads budget production across capital, operating, and cash streams.
Supports development of a monthly rolling forecast model in Cognos and maintains headcount reporting models.
Operational Insights
Contributes to feasibility studies and business cases, focusing on cost-benefit and ROI analysis.
Control Environment
Ensures robust financial processes for clean audits and compliance with IT and corporate policies.
Business Reporting
Implements and advises on cost charging strategies, maintains Cognos Group overhead reporting, and develops new reports as needed.
People Management & Engagement
Manages a team of 2 setting goals, providing support, feedback, and fostering development, motivation, and high performance.
Projects & Ad Hoc Support
Provides financial support to projects including centralisation and IT transformation initiatives
About You
Ideally you will have:
Professional Accountancy Qualification. (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
Have expertise in the analysis and reporting of financial costs and forecasts against budgets.
Ability to work comfortably with multiple priorities across multiple stakeholders of various seniority and make contingency plans to account for changing work priorities, deadlines, and milestones.
Excellent communicator both verbal & written with the ability to advise and support using analysis and trend information generated.
What you'll receive
As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.
You'll enjoy:
Life Assurance (2.5 x salary)
Private medical insurance (employee & family cover)
Car allowance
Annual Bonus Scheme
25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role)
Staff Shop
Stakeholder Pension Scheme
Discount & cashback platform
Personal Accident Insurance
Free health check
Employee Assistance Programme
A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
Salary sacrifice car lease scheme
Free independent mortgage advice
Discounted tutoring for children
Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
Free car parking
Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions.
Proud to be Bakkavor
We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!
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Bakkavor
We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, with operations also in the US, positioning the Group well in these high-growth markets. We leverage our consumer insight and scale to provide innovative food that offers quality, choice, convenience, and freshness. Around 15,000 colleagues operate from 31 sites across our two markets supplying a large portfolio of products across meals, pizza & bread, salads and desserts to leading grocery retailers in the UK and US.
Department: Information Technology
Location:
Spalding, GB, PE11 2BB
Workplace: Hybrid
Date: 30 Jul 2025
Req ID: 25098
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