Finance Business Partner (Operations)

Finance Business Partner

We drive our own success

Shift: Monday - Friday

Hours: 08:30 - 17:00

Contract: Permanent

Location: Bakkavor Meals, Bourne - PE10 0AT

Benefits: Competitive salary + bonus scheme, Private Healthcare, Pension, Flexible benefits package, Excellent career progression across the Bakkavor Group

Why join us?

We're constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying, and we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. We believe in fuelling ambition and guiding success. In supporting everyone with talent and drive to own what they do, realise their potential and build a brilliant future for themselves at Bakkavor.

About the role:

In this busy and exciting role, you will analyse, understand and support improvements to specific areas of the factory. You will be working closely with the factory managers, operational excellence colleagues and the wider operations team to influence decision making and drive factory efficiencies. You will be involved in the full product lifecycle from inception to production.

Accountabilities:

1. Working closely with the operations team to understand factory performance and support decision making.
2. Translating complex financial decision making into actionable business insights.
3. Ensuring clarity of the expected and actual impact of any new operational initiatives, supporting the justification of investment where required (payback capital) and measuring returns post investment or post launch.
4. Acting as the financial guardian for costings - ensuring they reflect reality, outputs are clear, well-presented and have appropriate comparables.
5. Delivering ad hoc reporting related to factory performance.
6. Working with the operational teams to deliver robust operational performance forecasts.
7. Stepping up to cover the senior finance business partner and supporting duties carried out by the analysts as required.
8. Supporting the business with adherence to financial controls.

What you will need:

Ideally you will have previous experience of a similar role within a fast-paced food manufacturing or FMCG environment. You'll have experience of factory performance, labour efficiencies, material variance, standard costings, experience working with large data-sets, P&L and interpreting data into insights.

You will be qualified or working towards relevant qualifications such as CIMA, ACCA or equivalent and possess the ability to manage large volumes of data into usable formats.

Excellent communication, analytical, customer service and Excel skills will be key.

What you'll receive:

As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

You'll enjoy:

• Bonus (up to 10% of annual salary - company performance dependant)
• Private healthcare
• A stakeholder pension scheme
• Personal accident Insurance
• Free independent mortgage advice
• Employee assistance programme
• A range of voluntary benefits
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Additional life assurance
• Dental & hospital cash plans
• Discounted tutoring for children
• Access to financial learning tools
• Affordable loans via your salary
• Proud to be and loyal service awards

Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions.

Find out more and apply.

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Job Info

Job Title: Finance Business Partner (Operations)

Company: CV-Library

Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire

Competitive

Posted:

Closes: Jan 17th 2025

Sector:

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full Time