Finance Business Partner
Newport, Wales, United Kingdom
Are you an experienced Finance Business Partner with a passion for fresh produce? If so, we have a unique opportunity to join a rapidly growing fresh produce business with responsibility for management accounting, forecasting, commercial analysis and decision support relating to the Wholesale Market Branches within the region.
Key responsibilities:
Proactive Finance Business Partner providing support, challenge and insight to Branch Managers and Regional Directors.
Support the Head of Finance as required.
To deliver timely, accurate and relevant financial information including weekly, monthly and quarterly forecasts, annual budgets, KPIs and Variance Analysis.
Identifying risks and opportunities to enable delivery of targets.
Develop and continuously challenge and question the budget/forecast assumptions.
Explain business performance variances and recommendations.
Monthly review packs and meetings.
Margin management.
Attend monthly stock takes.
Develop and understand distribution cost reporting & KPI’s.
Benchmarking performance.
Monitor new business.
Review of monthly accruals, prepayments and balance sheet reconciliations.
What are we looking for in you?
You must be a qualified accountant (ideally CIMA) with multi-site and management accounting experience within the fresh produce or FMCG sectors. It’s essential that you’re comfortable being the only finance person in the region and influencing non-finance colleagues. Other traits we are looking for include:
Flexible team player
Possess a ‘can do’ attitude whilst demonstrating tenacity
Able to adapt to everchanging environments
Ability to prioritise and manage your time
Excellent communication skills in order to build relationships across all levels of the business
Demonstratable experience of process improvement and stakeholder management
Advanced MS Excel skills
Location
Home-based with travel to Bristol, Cardiff and Southampton (3 days per week site based)