Finance Data Analyst

We drive our own success.  

Data Analyst 

Competitive salary  

Private Healthcare  

Highly competitive rewards package including Group Pension  

Working hours Monday to Friday 8:30-17:00 

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 exciting role you will be a part of the FP&A team focusing on Business Data and Reporting. You will be responsible for ensuring that Bakkavor Business Intelligence Systems are robustly updated, and the reporting is accurate and timely. You will also get involved in and support routine reporting and ad-hoc analysis. 

Role Accountabilities 

Data collection & reporting 

• ESG Data collected from sites and consolidated and cleansed to ensure monthly robust reporting. 

• Review data against previous data sets to ensure no data has dropped out or duplicated 

• Investigate potential data discrepancies, ensuring information has been correctly uploaded into reporting tool and data check are carried out. 

Data System development and maintenance 

• Build and maintain a suite of reports for ESG and other agreed data sets for Group reporting (ESG, Technical, People etc.). 

• Monthly data sign off, understand, and articulate the movements month on month. Investigate and correct prior to sign off meeting any discrepancies identified. 

• Proposing solutions and strategies – including tools and preferred systems. 

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. 

Systems 

• Maintaining and improving the SOP for data reporting processes. 

• Ensure master data in reporting tool is aligned to monthly reports and any historic changes are investigated and understood. 

• Work with Information systems team to ensure that the data systems are operating in an efficient and effective manner. 

• Be the ‘Expert User’, responding to system queries and provide training to others as appropriate. 

 Projects 

• Implement and administer updates to the BI system. 

• Provide robust comparisons of pre and post data sets that can be used for decision making and have a clear change control process. 

• Create achievable project plan with clear timelines and responsibilities for all stakeholders. 

Ad hoc 

• Assist the team as necessary with ad hoc FP&A Analysis. 

• Provide cover for other members of the data team such as marketing and business reporting. 

• Support the team with any reporting changes as part of transition to SAP (Vision). 

About you.  

This role would be ideal for anyone who is deadline focused, articulate, has great timekeeping skills and is highly organised. The work will be heavily focused on Microsoft products such as Excel and Outlook, so the ideal candidate must be confident using these systems and have excellent attention to detail, experience with Power BI would be useful as well but not essential. The role will be working on multiple priorities across multiple stakeholders, so the ability to work collaboratively as a part of a wider team and effectively prioritise workload is crucial.  

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

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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