Finance Business Partner

Greencore; York; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

25 days holiday

Pension up to 8% matched

Company share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Exclusive employee discount platform

Access to Wellbeing Centre platform

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Finance Business Partner to lead their finance team at a historic site. This role focuses on delivering optimal operational performance and providing decision support to senior management. You will be responsible for ensuring the integrity of financial controls, optimizing site financial performance, and leading the budgeting process. With a commitment to employee development and a supportive environment, this opportunity offers a chance to grow within a dynamic team and contribute to the company's future success. Join this vibrant organization and help drive their mission forward.

Qualifications

• Post qualification experience in Retail, Manufacturing, or FMCG.
• Ability to build and develop a high performing team.

Responsibilities

• Lead site finance team to ensure optimal operational performance.
• Ensure integrity of balance sheet and address identified risks.
• Contribute to the wider operational finance team for continuous improvement.

Skills

Operational decision support

Interpersonal skills

Team leadership

Organizational skills

Flexibility

Education

ACA, ACCA, CIMA qualification

Job description

We’re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK’s food retailers with everything from sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY23, we generated revenues of £1.9bn.

Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,400 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.

Here at Selby, we employ a team of over 750 colleagues. A site steeped in history, we are the UK’s number one manufacturer of customer private label cooking sauces and pickles. We have been serving our customers out of our Selby site since 1914.

We produce more than 160 million units per year across 600 different product lines for customers such as Morrisons, Tesco & Asda.

What you'll be doing:

We are looking to hire a Finance Business Partner to lead the site-based finance team at Selby, to deliver optimal operational performance, personally provide decision support to the site General Manager and ensure that the internal control environment is implemented in line with group policy.

Key Accountabilities:

1. Provide leadership and direction to ensure that the site finance team is engaged, focused, developed and delivering to their full potential.
2. Take ownership of the site-based internal control environment to ensure that identified risks (e.g., internal/external audit and BICQ) are addressed. Ensure the integrity of the balance sheet through monthly detailed reviews and maintaining a detailed knowledge of balance sheet items including risks and opportunities.
3. Be a key member of the SLT providing visible leadership and contributing to the running of the site (e.g., Health & Safety and sustainability). Provide decision support to the SLT (in particular the General Manager) to ensure optimal decisions are made with factual information. Ensure input into costings is accurate and within agreed timescales.
4. Optimise site financial performance with a particular focus on operational conversion including direct labour, waste and fixed costs by providing support and challenge to the site and budget holders. Lead the process for a robust site budget/forecasting process including communication within the site leadership team and to BULT stakeholders.
5. Owner and gatekeeper of the site capital process, including planning and prioritising future spend, maintaining an accurate view of capital cash spend phasing, monitoring and challenge of project timescales from inception to completion, quality control for all capital proposals being issued from the site and monitoring capital spend.
6. Contribute to the wider BU operational finance team to ensure continuous improvement in controls, efficiency and ways of working.

What we’re looking for:

1. (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) post qualification experience gained within Retail, Manufacturing or FMCG.
2. Experience of operational decision support.
3. Excellent interpersonal skills able to communicate to all levels of the business.
4. Ability to build, lead and develop a high performing team.
5. Proactive, organised and able to work flexibly in order to meet deadlines and have the drive to deliver results.

If this sounds like you, join us, grow with Greencore and be a part of driving our future success.

What you’ll get in return:

1. Competitive salary and job-related benefits.
2. 25 days holiday.
3. Pension up to 8% matched.
4. Company share save scheme.
5. Greencore Qualifications.
6. Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform.
7. Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform.

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Accounting/Auditing

Industries

Food and Beverage Manufacturing