Junior Finance Business Partner

Natures Way Foods; Chichester; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fresh food manufacturer in Chichester is looking for a Junior Finance Business Partner. In this hybrid role, you will support the Finance Business Partner by providing valuable financial insights to procurement and supply chain teams. This is a great opportunity for an ambitious finance professional to deepen skills and influence decision-making. The position offers a salary between £32,000 and £40,000 alongside benefits like pension matching and gym discounts.

Benefits

Salary ranging from £32,000 - £40,000

Employer matched pension up to 5%

Flexible benefits including corporate gym discounts

Access to online GP & life assurance

Qualifications

• Candidates should possess AAT level 4 or a relevant degree.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills are essential.
• High attention to detail when working with datasets.

Responsibilities

• Support the Finance Business Partner by providing financial insights.
• Prepare financial reports, dashboards, and KPIs.
• Own weekly reporting for financial performance assessments.

Skills

Numerical skills

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Relationship building

Education

AAT level 4 or relevant degree

Job description

Junior Finance Business Partner | Up to £40,000 | Hybrid working | Chichester

Are you looking to accelerate your finance career in a fast-paced, high-growth environment?

Join Nature’s Way Foods, a market-leading fresh food manufacturer, as our Junior Finance Business Partner. In this role, you’ll work closely with the Finance Business Partner to deliver high-quality financial insight to our procurement, distribution, and supply chain teams—helping drive stronger cost control, improved decision making and EBITDA growth.

This is an ideal opportunity for an ambitious finance professional who wants to deepen their business partnering skills, gain exposure to senior stakeholders, and make a tangible impact on a rapidly expanding organisation.

What you get from us

• Salary ranging from £32,000 - £40,000
• Employer matched pension up to 5%
• Flexible benefits including: Corporate gym discounts, shopping discounts, enhanced maternity & paternity policy and many more
• Access to online GP & life assurance

Key responsibilities

• Supporting the Finance Business Partner in delivering financial insight across the procurement, distribution and supply chain functions
• Prepare regular financial reports, dashboards and KPI summaries for commercial and supply chain stakeholders
• Ownership of weekly reporting providing clear financial insight of weekly financial performance, and assisting with the monthly reporting and forecasting process
• Evaluates data effectively and can summarise to non-financial stakeholders within the supply chain team
• Initially having an increased focus on business partnership with the distribution team
• Develop ownership of finance business partnering for the distribution team, supporting them with clear reporting, analysis, and insight while building strong cross-functional relationships
• Supporting a relentless continuous improvement culture within the team and amongst stakeholders
• Calculating size of opportunity of creating value initiatives, tracking actualised performance and investigating variances to expectations

Requirements

• AAT level 4 or relevant degree
• Strong numerical and analytical skills
• High attention to detail and comfortable working with datasets and spreadsheets.
• Clear and confident communicator, both verbally and in writing
• Able to build relationships
• Able to work well in a team and independently

Nature’s Way Foods is the leading manufacturer of prepared salads, coleslaw and “food-to-go” for retailers and QSR, and as such we work closely with farmers across Europe. But there’s lots more to us than the products we make.

Our culture is inclusive, and our people are diverse spanning 39 different languages. We operate four manufacturing facilities capable of producing over 400m units per year. It is an exciting time to join Nature’s Way Foods as we are growing rapidly and there are genuine opportunities to progress within the organisation.

Interested?

Click apply, submitting an up-to-date CV. We look forward to hearing from you.

At Nature's Way Food, we believe that diversity and inclusion are key to driving innovation and achieving excellence. We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to reach their full potential. We are dedicated to building a diverse team that reflects the communities we serve and the world we live in.

Join us in our mission to create a more inclusive and fairer world. Together, we can become best at fresh.