Finance Business Partner - Consett and Leeds

GREENCORE; Consett; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food manufacturer in Consett is seeking a Finance Business Partner to oversee finance teams and enhance operational performance. The successful candidate will ensure internal controls are aligned with group policy. The ideal candidate will have post-qualification experience in Retail, Manufacturing, or FMCG and possess excellent interpersonal skills. This role includes competitive salary and benefits, with 25 days holiday and a pension scheme.

Benefits

Competitive salary

25 days holiday

Pension up to 8% matched

Company share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Employee discount platform

Access to Wellbeing Centre

Qualifications

• Experience in Retail, Manufacturing, or FMCG is essential.
• Must communicate effectively at all levels of the organization.
• A proactive and organized approach to work is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the finance teams and provide decision support to the General Manager.
• Optimize financial performance focusing on costs and budgets.
• Ensure the integrity of financial controls and balance sheet.

Skills

Operational decision support

Interpersonal skills

Team leadership

Organizational skills

Proactivity

Education

Post qualification experience (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Job description

Overview

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 Consett we have a team of around 280 colleagues, producing a range of chilled ready meals for some of the UK's leading retailers, including Co-op, Sainsbury's and Weight Watchers

This role will also have responsibility for Leeds, where we make just over 40% of all UK frozen Yorkshire puddings; making us one of the UK’s largest suppliers of frozen Yorkshire puddings to Asda, Morrisons & Tesco to name a few!

What you’ll be doing

We are looking to hire a Finance Business Partner to lead the site based finance teams at Leeds and Consett, 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.

• Provide leadership and direction to ensure that the site finance team is engaged, focused, developed and delivering to their full potential
• Take ownership of the site based internal control environment to ensure that identified risks (eg 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
• To 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
• 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.
• 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.
• Contribute to the wider BU operational finance team to ensure continuous improvement in controls, efficiency and ways of working

What we’re looking for

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

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• 25 days holiday
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• 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.