Job Description
Finance Business Partner
FMCG - Food Production
£70,000 - £80,000 + 20% bonus & benefits
London
Hybrid 3-4 days pw office / 1-2 wfh pw
Job Purpose
* Responsible to deliver the London site financial objectives
* Driving performance improvements through effective collaboration with London Site Leadership Team & Senior Management
* Preparation & review of London site P&L & insightful commentary
* Preparation of annual budgets & standard costs
* Review, challenge & support of proposals raised within various forums
* Business Partnering with Commercial for accurate costing & feasibility of new launches
* Working with Business Processes Owners to develop and Implement Business Wide automated reporting framework and dashboards
* Adhoc analysis & modelling
* Support & assist development of Assistant Management Accountant
Key accountabilities:
* Ensuring controls & improvements for London site product margins & site overheads
* Providing Reporting & Analysis to support London site & Senior Management
* Providing Reporting and Analysis to support the Commercial Department
* Preparation monthly results & forecasts in line with business deadlines.
* Develop and support a Business wide automated KPI reporting process
* Work with Senior Finance Business Partner on overall Business Strategy
* Support Assistant Management Accountant
Key areas of work:
Finance Business Partner To Commercial Department
* Support and challenge the commercial team with performance mgt
* Optimising pricing, promotional spend and GP mix
* Ensure effective processes and controls for changes to prices & trade spend
* Provide strategic challenge around full customer P&Ls and Categories and segments of business. Support managing the Portfolio.
* Work with the Commercial Analyst to ensure effective alignment of demand planning and financial reporting
* Effectively managing distribution costs by periodic review
Finance Business Partner for London Site
* Managing the London site P&L
* Understanding the trends and variances for the London Std costs
* Helping the London site review and update Live Standard Costs
* Providing challenge & support to the London Site Leadership Teams weekly meetings & London Site Steering meetings
* Detailed analysis to support London site specific projects in line with operational strategy and objectives.
* Supporting the process to ensure accurate of optimal site overheads
* Effectively managing distribution costs by periodic review
* Producing annual kitchen budgets and budgeted standard costs and monitoring actual expenditure against the budget & forecasts (LE)
Co-lead Information Management across the business (focus on financial)
* Work with Business Systems on resigning and implementing a master data framework for business
* Work with Key Users to ensure relevant balanced scorecards and automated reporting are "fit for purpose"
* Work with Business Systems to ensure the data architecture meets the business needs
* Work with key users to coordinate best practice or perhaps an "academy" for best practice dashboards, reports, KPIs.
* Document, train and measure performance usage of reporting going forward
About You
* Experience of working in an FMCG or Food Manufacturing organisation - Desirable
* Experience of working in a medium or large company with modern reporting and data management processes
* Qualified accountant with at least c5 years PQE (ACA/ACCA/CIMA), or qualified by experience in relevant FMCG environment
* Excellent Excel skills
* Ability to manage out workload and prioritise tasks to meet deadlines
* Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to develop positive relationships
* Accurate with a high level of attention to detail.
* Experience of modern data driven reporting tools such as Power BI etc
* A confident communicator
* Results oriented with a 'can do' attitude