Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner

FMCG - Food Production

£70,000 - £80,000 + 20% bonus & benefits

London

Hybrid 3-4 days pw office / 1-2 wfh pw

Job Purpose

Responsible to deliver the London site financial objectives
Driving performance improvements through effective collaboration with London Site Leadership Team & Senior Management
Preparation & review of London site P&L & insightful commentary
Preparation of annual budgets & standard costs
Review, challenge & support of proposals raised within various forums
Business Partnering with Commercial for accurate costing & feasibility of new launches
Working with Business Processes Owners to develop and Implement Business Wide automated reporting framework and dashboards
Adhoc analysis & modelling
Support & assist development of Assistant Management Accountant

Key accountabilities:

Ensuring controls & improvements for London site product margins & site overheads
Providing Reporting & Analysis to support London site & Senior Management
Providing Reporting and Analysis to support the Commercial Department
Preparation monthly results & forecasts in line with business deadlines.
Develop and support a Business wide automated KPI reporting process
Work with Senior Finance Business Partner on overall Business Strategy
Support Assistant Management Accountant

Key areas of work:

Finance Business Partner To Commercial Department

Support and challenge the commercial team with performance mgt
Optimising pricing, promotional spend and GP mix
Ensure effective processes and controls for changes to prices & trade spend
Provide strategic challenge around full customer P&Ls and Categories and segments of business. Support managing the Portfolio.
Work with the Commercial Analyst to ensure effective alignment of demand planning and financial reporting
Effectively managing distribution costs by periodic review

Finance Business Partner for London Site

Managing the London site P&L
Understanding the trends and variances for the London Std costs
Helping the London site review and update Live Standard Costs
Providing challenge & support to the London Site Leadership Teams weekly meetings & London Site Steering meetings
Detailed analysis to support London site specific projects in line with operational strategy and objectives.
Supporting the process to ensure accurate of optimal site overheads
Effectively managing distribution costs by periodic review
Producing annual kitchen budgets and budgeted standard costs and monitoring actual expenditure against the budget & forecasts (LE)

Co-lead Information Management across the business (focus on financial)

Work with Business Systems on resigning and implementing a master data framework for business
Work with Key Users to ensure relevant balanced scorecards and automated reporting are "fit for purpose"
Work with Business Systems to ensure the data architecture meets the business needs
Work with key users to coordinate best practice or perhaps an "academy" for best practice dashboards, reports, KPIs.
Document, train and measure performance usage of reporting going forward

About You

Experience of working in an FMCG or Food Manufacturing organisation - Desirable
Experience of working in a medium or large company with modern reporting and data management processes
Qualified accountant with at least c5 years PQE (ACA/ACCA/CIMA), or qualified by experience in relevant FMCG environment
Excellent Excel skills
Ability to manage out workload and prioritise tasks to meet deadlines
Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to develop positive relationships
Accurate with a high level of attention to detail.
Experience of modern data driven reporting tools such as Power BI etc
A confident communicator
Results oriented with a 'can do' attitude