Business FP&A Manager

Business FP&A Manager

We rise to challenges together 

• Business Area: Meals
• Location: Bourne, Lincs
• Contract: Permanent
• Salary: £60,000 - £70,000 per annum (dependant on experience)
• Working Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5:00pm

• Benefits: Excellent rewards package including – £8,400 car allowance per annum, up to 20% short-term bonus, private medical insurance for yourself and family, 25 days holiday, Life Insurance

Why join us?    

We’re ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it’s exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals and succeed together. 
   

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 this role.

The purpose of the Business FP&A Manager role is to lead the Business FP&A Team that manages the execution of the forecasting and reporting routines and supports the Senior Financial Controller and Business partners with timely and accurate analysis.

The Business FP&A Manager will be part of the broader UK FP&A Team, requiring building a strong working relationship to contribute to the standardisation of UK processes. The role is also responsible for on ground adherence to Group controls and SLAs, assisting the Senior Financial Controller in key meetings, reviews, and relationship management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Performance Reporting - Managing and consolidating daily and weekly trackers for timely distribution to management, reviewing and analysing P&L and tracker data to identify errors and trends, and supporting Finance Shared Services in preparing weekly and monthly financial reports and reconciliations. You will coordinate EBITDA reconciliations for senior review, generating ad-hoc reports to aid business performance analysis, collaborating with the UK FP&A Team to streamline reporting and avoid duplication, and ensuring the reporting suite remains relevant and insightful to meet evolving business priorities and stakeholder needs.

• Forecasting - Managing the schedule for key forecasting activities, including the 13-week tracker, quarterly rolling forecasts, and 3-year business plans. You will support the Business FP&A Team by ensuring forecast templates and analyses are prepared accurately and on time. The role also collaborates with the Business Partnering Team to incorporate trends and cost drivers into financial models, oversees the timely submission of forecast data into Cognos, and conducts monthly and quarterly variance analyses to highlight significant differences between actual results and forecasts, providing detailed reports with actionable insights.

• Product Costing & Pricing - Collaborating with Procurement to provide data and insights for price forecasting, leading the coordination of standard cost resets while ensuring their impact is understood by Finance and Operational teams. Maintaining accurate and up-to-date pricing information across the business in line with group policies and managing regular price variance reporting, ensuring accuracy and communication of adjustments to Finance Shared Services. Additionally, you will be required to support the preparation of ad-hoc costing analyses for various business needs such as product launches and promotional reviews.

• Capital Management & Investment Appraisal - Review and prepare capital invoice additions forecast and capital cash forecast, challenging project slippage and supporting generation of corrective action plans.

• Communication & Change Management - This role focuses on building strong relationships with key internal stakeholders and managing escalations effectively. It involves regular communication with the UK FP&A Team to share updates and challenges, collaborating with peers across sites to standardize processes and drive improvements, and working closely with the Finance Business Partnering and Shared Services teams to identify opportunities for continuous enhancement. Additionally, the role supports various projects, including centralization and IS transformation initiatives, and collaborates with other areas of the broader finance function as needed.

• Control Environment - Assist and support in all internal & external audit related activities as required. Ensure site adherence to Group controls, identifying and challenging gaps and supporting wider ops teams to resolve and implement new and improved processes that align to agreed standards

• People Management – You will be required to build strong relationships within the Business FP&A team, ensuring clear understanding of the business, and promptly addressing queries. You will provide guidance and training on best practices, accounting standards, compliance, and system use, conducting regular performance reviews to support development, and ensuring the team has the necessary tools and resources for effective performance.

About you.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to advise and support using analysis and trend information generated.
• Comprehensive Microsoft Office skills - particularly MS PowerPoint, MS Word, and MS Excel
• Demonstrate excellent employee management skills; ability to plan, assign and direct work; ability to recruit, mentor and appraise employees
• Ability to identify and apply best practices for forecasting, reporting and analysis activity
• Previous experience at a management level preferred
• Strong knowledge of Operational Finance reporting and deep understanding and expertise in financial forecasting and analysis
• Previous experience in working with Finance ERP and Business Reporting Tools
• Professional Qualified Accountant (e.g., ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

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: 

• Car allowance £8,400
• Bonus up to 20%
• 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!

Find out more and apply.