Bakkavor
Finance Business Partner
Key Responsibilities
- Delivering regular and ad hoc reporting on all elements of factory performance.
- Ensuring clarity of the expected/actual impact of new operational initiatives, supporting investment justification and measuring returns.
- Acting as the financial guardian for costings, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and sufficient comparables for approval.
- Working with the operations team and senior finance business partner to calculate, justify, and update standards to reflect expected performance.
- Delivering robust short-term and long-term forecasts of factory efficiencies with clear assumptions, signed off by the operational team.
- Contributing to the development and delivery of functional objectives.
- Stepping up to cover the senior finance business partner and supporting analyst duties as required.
- Becoming the finance champion for the site management control and reporting system (Redzone).
Skills and Expertise
- Previous experience in a similar role within a fast-paced food manufacturing or FMCG environment.
- Experience with factory performance, labour efficiencies, material variance, standard costings.
- Experience working with large data sets, P&L, and interpreting data into insights.
- Qualified or working towards relevant qualifications such as CIMA, ACCA or equivalent.
- Ability to manage large volumes of data into usable formats.
- Excellent communication, analytical, customer service, and Excel skills.
Job Facilities/Benefits
- Competitive salary + bonus scheme
- Private Healthcare
- Pension
- Flexible benefits package
- Excellent career progression
- Bonus (up to 10% of annual salary, company performance dependent)
- Private healthcare
- Stakeholder pension scheme
- Personal accident Insurance
- Free independent mortgage advice
- Employee assistance programme
- Range of voluntary benefits
- Holiday purchase scheme
- Additional life assurance
- Dental & hospital cash plans
- Discounted tutoring for children
- Access to financial learning tools
- Affordable loans via salary
- Proud to be and loyal service awards
- Wellbeing support services