Finance Business Partner - FMCG

Finance Business Partner - FMCG 

Location: Wakefield 

Salary: £60,000 - £66,000 + Fantastic Bonus & Benefits - Flex Working 

Elevation Senior Finance is currently looking to recruit a Finance Business Partner on behalf of an Innovative fast paced FMCG business in Wakefield. 

This is a fantastic opportunity to become a key part of deciding the company’s direction by providing key commercial and decision support to the business and offers regular opportunities for board-level presentation and communication with the Executive Directors and senior management team.

This will be a varied and fast-paced job role that will require you to manage a busy workload and prioritise to ensure deadlines are met.

Job Highlights: -

• Business partners the buying team and Logistics Senior Management Team
• Leading the planning and forecasting processes for the team, ensuring reliability and accuracy of the plans and forecasts delivered to business deadlines
• Attend and lead regular performance reviews with senior stakeholders to review cost performance vs plan, strategic initiative delivery and overall P&L performance
• P&L ownership for end-to-end performance of the commercial team
• Drive consistent and clear reporting on a weekly and monthly basis to show true underlying performance vs plan and forecast (including currency impact, volume changes, cost inflation, claims, waste)
• Develop a deep understanding of the key accounting systems – Prophet, Dynamics and Anaplan – and project manage any system developments specific to the Business Unit
• Leadership and development of 1 member of the team, ensuring strong business partnering is being delivered
• Providing support to the Head of Procurement Finance on projects, group reporting/forecasting, and performance management

Elevation Accountancy & Finance would be keen to speak with candidates with the following skills and experiences:

• CIMA, ACCA OR ACA Qualified
• Recent relevant experience ideally in Logistics, FMCG or Retail 
• Stakeholder management and influencing
• Commercial and operational decision support
• Strong IT skills, including advanced Excel

Elevation Accountancy & Finance is a specialist division of Elevation Recruitment focusing on the recruitment of talented Accountancy and Finance professionals across all levels, from Ledger Clerks through to Financial Directors in Yorkshire and surrounding regions. If you match the specified criteria and are interested in discussing the position in more detail, we would love to hear from you.