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Finance Business Partner

Employer
WEETABIX LIMITED
Location
Kettering, UK
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Nov 14, 2019

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Job Role
Finance Business Partner
Sector
Finance
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
We have an exciting opportunity for a Finance Business Partner to join our finance team, responsible for partnering our operations leadership teams, and producing high quality reports to enable the teams to understand their P&L's and therefore be enabled to make financially impacted decisions proactively. This role provides clear insight, getting under the skin of the day to day operations, supporting and challenging financial effectiveness. You will: Produce accurate, timely and informative site periodic financial closes. Support the delivery of improvement plans in operations. Challenge all areas of spend appropriately to maximise profitability. Understand key drivers of direct cost financial variances and communicate this insight to budget owners to help drive appropriate actions. Support budget owners with ad hoc requests for insightful analysis. Lead annual budget process with stakeholders. Reconcile balance sheet accounts. Undertake ad-hoc analysis to support business cases and investment decisions. Investigate major variances and produce supporting commentary in the form of a period result pack, as well as lead periodic cost reviews with relevant budget owners ensuring budget owners understand spend and forecast forward. Support new product development with financial analysis of new recipes. Requirements You will be a newly qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) with strong analytical skills and the ability to identify and implement continuous improvement activities. With strong investigative skills and a tenacity to get to the root of the issue and drive solutions, you will drive for results and influence effectively at all levels of business. You will ideally have worked in manufacturing but we will consider other sectors. Strong analystical and advanced Excel skills are essential, as is a keen sense of self development and a desire to learn. You will have a natural ability to work nder pressure and meet tight deadlines, without compromising accurancy. Benefits The opportunities for personal development and progression are only limited by what you want to do. You'll also find as much Weetabix, Alpen, Weetos and Ready Brek as you could possibly eat. There's also a comprehensive flexible benefits package including all the good stuff you'd expect; bonus, pension, cycle to work etc. There's a few other things we do - we've got core hours of 10-4 to let us have flexibility in our lives, after all there's other things in life that are almost as important as Weetabix In the summer on a Friday this shortens down to 10-2 helping us make the most of the good weather, when (if) we get it. We also have what we call 'business appropriate' clothing - ultimately this means you can wear what you like, though if you're going in to customers that might change haveyouhadyourweetabix Closing date for applications - 1st November 2019

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