Finance Business Partner

Birds Eye UK & IE; Woking; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Brand portfolio

Career progression across brands

Collaborative culture

Job summary

Nomad Foods is hiring a Finance Business Partner to join our Woking head office, supporting the Birds Eye brand. You will act as a trusted partner, deliver detailed financial analysis, and provide strategic advice in supplier and customer meetings.

You will drive performance, challenge plans, translate targets into budgets, and influence decisions to optimise EBITDA and cash flow across the business area.

Qualifications

• University degree or equivalent.
• Part qualified accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• MBA or Advanced Business degree desired.
• FMCG experience.
• Business and financial analysis experience.
• Microsoft Project, Word, PowerPoint and Excel skills.
• Good communication and written skills with the ability to engage people at all levels.
• Ability to influence business and finance colleagues.
• Ability to bring multiple stakeholders to an objective resolution.
• Strong report writing and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop an in depth understanding of the business area and drivers of P&L performance.
• Provide monthly financial analysis, insights and explanations of performance.
• Interpret and drive performance within the business.
• Support operational and strategic decisions with insights and challenge.
• Translate targets into executable in-year plans.
• Partner with client group to drive pricing, ROI, sales, margin and costs.
• Advise on planning assumptions, trade-offs and opportunities.
• Review performance and propose interventions to improve margins and cash.
• Own initiatives to close variances with the business.
• Ensure delivery against KPIs and provide strategic insights.

Education

University degree or equivalent

Part qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

MBA or Advanced Business degree

FMCG experience

Business and financial analysis

Microsoft Project, Word, PowerPoint, Excel

Communication and influence

Stakeholder management

Financial reporting and presentation

Tools

Microsoft Project

Word

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

Nomad foods is home to iconic brands such as Birds eye, Aunt Bessies & Goodfella Pizzas.

As Europe’s leading frozen food company we are proud of our passion, innovation and commitment to excellence.

About the role:

We are excited to be hiring a Finance Business Partner to join our dynamic team in our Woking head office supporting our Birds Eye brand.

Act as a trusted partner and advisor to the business area and client group supported and drive business performance by providing detailed and insightful analysis, commentary, advice, challenge and decision support.

Provide key support in either customer or supplier meetings and negotiations, by providing insights, analysis, challenge and recommendations.

Responsibilities:

• Develop an in depth understanding of the business area/client group supported together with its results and the key levers that influence P& L performance for that area/group
• Understand the drivers of historic, current and forecast performance for client group/business area and provide monthly financial analysis, insight and explanation of performance, highlighting emerging issues or trends and making recommendations on corrective actions
• Interpret, explain and drive performance within the business
• Support and influence key operational and strategic decisions by providing insight and challenge
• Translate operational targets into executable in-year plans
• Partner with client group to drive actions to meet targets (pricing, promo ROI, sales, margin, variable costs, overheads, EBITDA, working capital, ROI etc)
• Advise on key business planning assumptions, trade-offs and opportunities.
• Review actual performance (pricing, promo ROI, sales, margin, variable costs, overheads, EBITDA, working capital, ROI etc) with a view to making recommendations and provoking interventions required to drive down costs, improve margins and convert P&L into cash
• Own and drive initiatives focused on closing variances with the business
• Ensure business understands and delivers against KPIs
• Facilitate ad-hoc analysis and insights on specific issues at a strategic level
• Support strategy development by providing financial performance insights and recommendations to client group, identifying potential opportunities and/or risks through scenario and sensitivity analysis
• Evaluate investment options from a financial perspective to provide a long term view of the impact on key KPIs for client group/business area (e.g. pricing, mix, sales, margin, variable costs, media costs, working capital, ROI etc)
• Support the management of the capex budgeting process. Accurately forecast capital spending and depreciation for the development of budgets and long term plans for capital commitments. Create multi-party reviews of proposals, ROI analysis, cash flow analysis etc
• Identify and provide financial implications for all projects / business initiatives, contributing to business cases and ensuring the most profitable allocation of resources through financial insights and constructive challenge
• Leverage analyses provided by FP&A to drive business choices, by overlaying the commercial acumen and insight
• Provide insight into competitor landscape to business and FP&A teams
• Work with the management team to define planning assumptions, risks and investment opportunities and ensure this is fed into a high quality and credible IBP

Qualifications:

• University degree or equivalent
• Part qualified accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) in those countries where this is applicable
• MBA or Advanced Business degree desired
• FMCG experience
• Business and financial analysis experience
• Microsoft Project skills, Word, PowerPoint and Excel skills
• Good communication and written skills with the ability to engage people at all levels both internally and externally
• Ability to influence business and finance colleagues
• Ability to bring multiple stakeholders and conflicting viewpoints to an objective resolution
• Ability to constructively challenge assumptions and thinking
• Good report writing and presentation skills

What we can offer you:

We’re on an exceptional adventure and can offer a truly purpose led career with flexibility. In addition, you will benefit from the below:

• An ambitious employer with recognized brands and growth potential
• The potential to progress your career across different areas of Birds Eye and Nomad Foods
• A culture where your part of a team, where you feel encouraged to make a difference