Inflation Accountant

Pilgrim's Europe; Uxbridge; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food production company seeks to ensure accurate inflation reporting and management for the UK & Ireland commercial teams. You will support financial operations by analyzing market conditions, engaging with stakeholders, and simplifying processes while adhering to the company's core values. This role offers a competitive salary and numerous benefits within a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Competitive Holiday Entitlement

Pension Contribution

Family Friendly Policies

Learning and Development Opportunities

Life Assurance

Qualifications

• Ability to explain complex concepts to finance and non-finance colleagues.
• Strong problem-solving skills and comfort with ambiguity.
• Engaging communication style that resonates with diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Support finance lead in capturing and passing inflation to customers.
• Minimize cost inflation pricing risks.
• Identify margin enhancement opportunities through model analysis.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication

Problem solving

Job description

My job

To provide a comprehensive, proactive, and responsive financial service to the UK & Ireland Commercial Team(s). The role is to ensure all inflationary increases are passed onto the customers/commercial finance in a timely manner, and onto the end customer on time. Support the Inflation Finance lead and commercial finance team with B2B models, open book agreements and commodity trackers. Create a clear, precise process (quarterly or otherwise across Pilgrims Europe. Own the business reporting of inflation to commercial stakeholders and senior stakeholders.

What will I be doing?

• Support the finance lead in ensuring inflation is captured across the business and passed through to customers, either through the inflation team or through the commercial finance team. Minimise cost inflation pricing risks, predominately on commodity pass through models, utilities inflation, and enhancing carcass balance.
• Ensure a strong understanding of market values and principles, understanding the cost drivers of inter-company meat supply to promote opportunities that maximise profit.
• Identify opportunities for margin enhancement through model analysis, deflation, and inflation requirements, driving profit into Pilgrims Europe.
• Gain an understanding of all the different ways of recovering inflation across the business, simplifying and standardising processes where possible.
• Assisting the commercial team and commercial finance team with material and inflationary asks back from customer
• Uphold, safeguard, and promote Pilgrims values. Maintain and promote the highest ethical standards and integrity within the Commercial, Category and Finance teams.

What will I need to have?

• Independent thinking, be a leader with a clear independent thorough process.
• Ability to explain to finance and non-finance colleagues alike.
• Able to find new solutions through analytical, interpretive and innovate thinking.
• Engaging communication: your communication style will engage both financial and non-financial minds.
• Problem solving; comfortable with ambiguity, you will collaborate to solve complex problems.
• Energy and curiosity; you will bring curiosity empathy and self-awareness.

The company

Pilgrim's Europe produces some of the best-known and most iconic brands in the UK and Ireland, including Fridge Raiders, Rollover, Denny, Richmond, Oakhouse and Moy Park, alongside a diverse range of industry leading own-label products in categories including fresh pork, lamb and chicken, working with all the major retailers and food service outlets.

Our portfolio extends to authentic chilled and frozen ready meals, snacking ranges, added value and food service products.

Across Pilgrim's Europe we combine 20,000 of the best people in the industry, united by a shared set of core values and a passion for producing the highest quality, most delicious and innovative food, which is enjoyed by millions of people in the UK, Ireland and Europe every day. Our Pilgrim's Europe team are based in our Pilgrim's UK, Moy Park, Pilgrim's Food Masters and Pilgrim's Shared Services businesses.

What we'll bring to the table

Competitive Salary

Competitive Holiday Entitlement

Pension Contribution

Family Friendly Policies

Learning and Development Opportunities

Life Assurance

People matter

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Sincerity

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