Finance Business Partner

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