Finance Business Partner - Coventry / Heywood / Darlington Finance and Accounting Coventry, Uni[...]

The Martin-Brower Company, L.L.C.; Coventry; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job description

Responsibilities

Job Title: Finance Business Partner

Full time: Permanent

Salary: £45,297.79 - £56,622.24

Location: Coventry

About Us: At Martin Brower, we are dedicated to sustainability, continuous improvement, and valuing our people. As a global leader in supply chain solutions, we support some of the world's largest restaurant chains by delivering food, beverages, and products with a focus on innovation and environmental responsibility.

Position Summary: The primary purpose of the job is to support the Finance Management team by providing high quality financial and management information in a timely manner.

This includes preparation of weekly financial accounts and KPI scorecards, providing support for production and analysis of month end accounts, reports and presentations.

Business Partnering:

1. Act as key financial support to finance business partners and finance managers as well as non-finance stakeholders.
2. Build and maintain strong relationships with finance and non-finance stakeholders.

Decision Support:

1. Produce regular reporting tracking business initiatives to drive actionable decisions through financial acumen.
2. Maintain high levels of accuracy and attention to detail in the production of reporting.

Period Ends:

1. Responsible for the production of monthly management accounts ensuring high levels of regulatory compliance are maintained.
2. Ability to operate across multiple sites turning data into accurate entries within ledger systems.
3. Present and discuss financial accounting entries with finance business partners and finance managers to ensure consistency of approach.

Budgeting and Forecasting:

1. Support the annual budgeting process for the DC network and / or central departments, working closely with finance business partners / finance managers to develop accurate and achievable budgets.
2. Support the monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasts, ensuring they reflect current business conditions and strategic plans.
3. Monitor actual performance against budget and forecast, providing explanations for variances and recommending corrective actions.

Financial Analysis & Reporting:

1. Produce regular value add reporting to maximise business performance.
2. Utilise a variety of sources (e.g. Excel, PowerBi) to produce reporting and provide clear direction to the business on focus areas.
3. Continually evaluate processes to identify efficiency opportunities in the reporting cycle and automate reporting as much as possible.
4. Provide ad hoc financial reports and analysis as requested by senior management.
5. Ensure financial reports are accurate, timely, and comply with regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

Technical Competencies:

1. Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or related field is desirable.
2. Studying toward a professional finance qualification (e.g. ACCA, CIMA, ACA) is required.
3. Strong knowledge of financial reporting standards and compliance requirements.

In return Martin Brower offers career growth opportunities, through training, mentoring and gaining diverse experiences within the business. Diversity and inclusion initiatives, performance bonus and many other incentives.

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you today and to join our team of innovators!