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Finance Business Partner

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Job Introduction

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

Key Accountabilities:

Key areas of work:

Finance Business Partner To Commercial Department

Support and challenge the commercial team with performance management
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 & LE (S&OP step 1)
Effectively managing distribution costs by periodic review

Finance Business Partner for the London Kitchen

Managing the London Kitchen P&L
Understanding the trends and variances for the London kitchen Std costs
Helping the London Kitchen 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 Kitchen specific projects in line with operational strategy and objectives.
Supporting the process to ensure accurate of optimal kitchen 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 Bighams
Work with Key Users (PIMDOG) 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 (not the IT part the business part)
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, again ensuring it’s “fit for purpose” ie consistent/intuitive/useful etc.

Experience:

Experience of working in a medium or large company with modern reporting and data management processes
Experience of working in an FMCG or food manufacturing organisation (desirable)

Qualifications:

Qualified accountant with at least 5 years PQE (ACA/ACCA/CIMA), or qualified by experience in relevant FMCG environment with 7 years +

Skills and Attributes

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 (Desirable)
A confident communicator
Results oriented with a ‘can do’ attitude