Finance Business Partner

We drive our own success  Shift: Monday – Friday Hours: 08:30 – 17:00 Contract: Permanent Location: Bakkavor Meals, Bourne – PE10 0AT 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. What we do. This particular role is at our Bakkavor Salads site, based in Bourne and specialises in preparing fruit, leafy salads, and stir fry mixes. It employs over 1,200 people and is only 16 miles from Peterborough and 12 miles from Spalding. 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 operations managers, operational excellence manager and wider operations team to influence decision making and drive factory efficiencies. Accountabilities

• Delivering regular and ad hoc reporting on all elements of factory performance.
• Ensuring clarity of the expected / actual impact of any new operational initiatives, supporting the justification of investment where required (‘payback’ capital) and measuring returns post investment or post launch.
• Acting as the financial guardian for costings - ensuring these reflect reality, outputs are clear, well-presented and have sufficient comparable on which to base approval.
• Working with the operations team and senior finance business partner to calculate, justify and update standards on a regular basis to reflect expected performance most accurately.
• Delivering robust short term and long-term forecasts of factory efficiencies based on clear assumptions, signed off by the operational team and with explanation for any changes in expected trends.
• Having an input to the development and delivery of functional objectives
• Stepping up to cover the senior finance business partner and supporting duties carried out by the analysts as required.
• Becoming the finance champion for the site management control and reporting system (Redzone).

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

Proud to be Bakkavor. We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. We’re driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!