Finance Analyst

Finance Analyst – Commercial Conversion

Proud to deliver high quality products and develop a high- quality career.

Competitive Salary  

10% Bonus

Private Health Care

Spalding – Hybrid role and working 3 days Spalding office and remote work from home

Permanent

8.30 - 5pm 

Monday to Friday

Why join us?

We’re proud to offer you a career with possibilities. Where you’ll be supported to work hard, aim high and bring your best to work, every day. As a valued Finance Analyst, we’ll support your ambition, reward your resilience, and encourage you to rise to challenges and create a career you can be proud of too.

What we do.

We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry - supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose.

About the role.

This role will provide Commercial output that enables Finance Business Partners and other key stakeholders to assess performance and make informed decisions.

Working with key stakeholders the analyst will take ownership of sales forecasting data for the Bakkavor UK sites, maintaining and analysing the live forecasting files to ensure data integrity and accuracy.

The successful candidate will deliver standardised commercial reporting providing visibility of commercial information to support with decision making and will support wider FP&A team through ad-hoc projects.

Accountabilities.

• Maintain all aspects of the live forecasting files including new products, MSP updates etc
• Liaising with Commercial Finance to ensure forecast accuracy and that movements to submissions are understood
• Owning and understanding the sales data for customers / sites and providing insight into key movements ensuring all stakeholders understand the shape and story
• Updating and reporting on both daily and weekly sales required by sites for Group Submissions
• Analysing and understanding any movement to forecast and providing commentary to the wider business
• Supporting the Commercial BP’s and wider FP&A team to understand our Volume, Mix and Inflation dynamics
• Supporting the Senior FP&A Analyst in developing models to generate EBITDA rec inputs with clear insight so Commercial BP’s and sites can understand the story behind their sales
• Working with the Commercial Finance BP’s and Commercial teams to understand the movements and updates to our forecast submissions
• Providing clear commentary and insight into our forecasts and ensuring understanding and alignment across all stakeholders
• Providing supporting information required for forecast submissions – Mix, Volume etc for EBITDA rec
• Work with wider FP&A Commercial team to ensure any price implications are captured in the EBITDA rec workings
• Maintain expected balance sheet position for sales accruals to be shared with site and commercial finance BPs
• Maintaining the Group Sales App ensuring that the live data source available remains aligned to site submissions and any amendments required are fed back in to the system so we always one source of reliable data for analysis (including actual sales, live forecast and forecast submissions)
• Support projects as required, examples of which range from supporting centralisation projects and IS transformation projects.
• Working with the wider FP&A team to develop our processes and controls to ensure robust, standardised information is being generated by the team

About you.

• Clear and articulate written and verbal communicator.
• Excellent presentation skills, able to present complex information from multiple sources clearly and with meaning.
• Comprehensive MS office skills.
• Good project management skills
• Good knowledge of operational finance reporting, financial forecasting and analysis
• Previous experience in working with Finance ERP systems and Business Reporting Tools
• In progress of completing a Professional Accounting Qualification (e.g., ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
• Demonstrates a high level of analytical capabilities.
• The ability to operate in a fast paced and demanding environment.
• Good attention to detail
• Proficiency in data management

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: 

• Life Assurance (2.5 x salary)
• Short Term Bonus Scheme
• 25 days holiday
• Staff Shop
• Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• MyBargains Discount Platform
• 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 and affordable loans via your salary
• Private Medical Insurance
• Free Carparking

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. 

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