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