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SalaryFinance 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
