Finance Data Analyst

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Finance Data Analyst

Competitive salary

Highly competitive rewards package including Group Pension

Working Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5:00pm

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.

About the role

In this busy and exciting role you will be responsible for ensuring that Bakkavor Financial Reports are robustly updated. You will have a strong focus on financial data and reporting and the chance to get involved in a range of routine reporting and ad hoc data analysis.

Role Accountabilities

Performance reporting and Business Partnering

• Running the daily and weekly tracker processes, ensuring that they are consolidated and circulated to management according to prescribed timetables.
• Maintenance of the tracker file and assist in developments as required
• Processing of month end adjustments
• Assist in the set up and data collection for month end reports, ensuring the files reconcile and any discrepancies are queries and resolved
• Running UK & Group ABC reporting and associated business partnering
• Working with laboratory team to understand cost drivers (Variable, semi variable & fixed)
• Maintenance of live EBITDA rec, including updating data sets, collation of data and reaching out to stakeholders with any queries/discrepancies

Forecasting

• Co-ordination of the UK element of re-forecasts, including both the pre-submission process and final submissions
• Ensuring any discrepancies in the re-forecasts are queried and resolved
• Maintenance of live rolling forecast files and raising queries with stakeholders where appropriate
• Maintain head count reporting and reporting of actual vs forecast

Relationships and Teamwork

• • Developing effective cross functional relationships to enable reporting requirements to be delivered both in line with deadlines and robust information to support decision making.
  • Work closely with business stakeholders to understand their goals and determine how data can be used to deliver them.

Business Reporting

• • Maintenance of Cognos extract files, including developing new reports as required
  • Work alongside the wider finance function to identify and remove any areas of duplication
  • Working alongside Senior UK Finance Analyst to build a new suite of reports to improve and deliver business insights

Ad hoc

• • Assist the team as necessary with ad hoc FP&A Analysis.
  • Provide cover for other members of the FP&A team
  • Support team with any reporting changes as part of transition to SAP (Vision)

About you

If you have a can-do attitude, an analytical mindset, strong communication skills and a passion for quality data collection and analysis then this could be the ideal role for you!

To thrive in this position, you must be deadline focused, articulate and highly organised, as this fast-paced role requires great time-keeping skills. You will need to have a strong ability to work comfortably with multiple priorities across multiple stakeholders and enjoy working collaboratively as part of a wider team.

In addition to this, being highly skilled in MS products (Excel, Word, and Outlook) and excellent attention to detail will be key, as well as, an understanding of ERP systems and the ability to use multiple ERP systems concurrently.

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 and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. 

You’ll enjoy:

• Life Assurance (1 x salary)
• 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role)
• Private medical insurance (after 5 years’ service)
• Staff Shop
• Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• Discount & cashback platform
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Free health check
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
• Salary sacrifice car lease scheme
• Free independent mortgage advice
• Discounted tutoring for children
• Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
• Free car parking – Site dependant

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!

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