Finance Manager - Primary Logistics Beer

Carlsberg Group; Hemel Hempstead; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading beverage supplier is seeking a Finance Manager to provide finance leadership in the Customer Supply Chain. Responsibilities include delivering financial insights, identifying risks, and ensuring governance across financial statements. Ideal candidates will have CIMA qualifications, strong analytical skills, and experience in FMCG. This role offers competitive salary and extensive benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Extensive benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in finance roles with a focus on supply chain.
• Ability to prioritize and deliver in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong relationships with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide finance leadership to Logistics and Commercial Operations.
• Deliver financial insights and analysis to leadership.
• Identify risks and opportunities early.
• Ensure strong financial governance across statements.
• Support strategy development for service improvement.

Skills

Strong analytical skills

Critical thinking

Good engagement and influencing skills

Ability to work independently

Background in FMCG

Education

CIMA qualified

Job description

Finance Manager - Primary Logistics Beer

Job Title: Finance Manager – Primary Logistics

Location: Field Based

Job Length: Full Time

Working Hours: 35

Salary: Competitive Salary with extensive benefits

Employer: Carlsberg Britvic

Carlsberg Britvic is the largest multi-beverage supplier in the UK and is home to some of the most iconic and popular beers & soft drinks, including Carlsberg Danish Pilsner, 1664, Poretti and Brooklyn to ale favourites such as Hobgoblin and Wainwright. For soft drinks, Carlsberg Britvic’s brands include J2O, Robinsons, Tango and London Essence along with the licence rights to the Pepsi portfolio in the UK including Pepsi MAX, 7UP, Lipton Iced Tea and Rockstar Energy.

With a strong national footprint, the Carlsberg Britvic business includes 6 production facilities and 16 logistics depots servicing customers up and down the UK. As these two historical businesses have come together, the one common goal remains, and that is ensuring our people succeed.

About the role

As Finance Manager across the Customer Supply Chain, you will provide finance leadership and decision support to the Logistics and Commercial Operations leadership team. You will also be accountable for reporting, analysis and forecasting of costs, as well as being part of the governance and decision-making processes, to ensure that we deliver in year performance, balancing service resilience and cost. You will lead the development of key insights to unlock value, working closely with the leadership teams to influence and positively impact the outcomes that the customer supply chain delivers.

Role Responsibilities

• Act as a finance business partner across the Customer Supply Chain, supporting performance delivery and harmonising processes
• Deliver financial insights and analysis to leadership, highlighting performance against budget, forecast, and prior year
• Identify risks and opportunities early, working cross-functionally to drive a proactive, ‘no surprises’ culture
• Lead ad hoc financial analysis to inform decision-making and corrective actions
• Ensure strong financial governance and control across supply chain financial statements
• Support strategy development to improve service, efficiency, cost, and cash across the Customer Supply Chain
• Drive simplification and consistency in processes, systems, and ways of working across the team
• Build financial capability through coaching, knowledge sharing, and role modelling company values

Experience and Key Attributes

• Self starter, able to work under own initiative, identify and then deliver solutions to business and finance problems.
• Ability to prioritise and deliver cut through in a fast paced rapidly changing environment
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills and an ability to distil key messages and make recommendations from complex and ambiguous datasets
• Good engagement and influencing skills, capable of building strong relationships with stakeholders to influence and drive change
• Background in FMCG and supply chain preferable – retailer or manufacturer
• CIMA qualified with experience (other financial qualifications will also be considered)

This is an exciting time to join our newly formed business – with their incredible individual history’s, innovation of products and some of the UK’s most iconic brands, Carlsberg Britvic strives to deliver the best service to our customers and consumers. We aim to make a difference, bringing together two diverse companies, our global reach enables opportunity, growth and a chance to work with some fantastic people.

Application

Application Process: We read applications continuously, and vacancies may be filled anytime, so please apply as early as possible. We look forward to receiving your application. This is an exciting time to join our newly formed business – with their incredible individual history’s, innovation of products and some of the UK’s most iconic brands, Carlsberg Britvic strives to deliver the best service to our customers and consumers. We aim to make a difference, bringing together two diverse companies, our global reach enables opportunity, growth and a chance to work with some fantastic people.