Financial Controller - Group IT

Finance Manager - Group

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

Salary Competitive Salary

Benefits £8,400 Car Allowance, up to 25% Bonus, Private Healthcare for family

Location: Spalding

Ways of Working Hybrid

Houts of work Monday to Friday – 37.5 hours

Contract Type Permanent

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 Manager, 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 

The Finance Manager takes responsibility for the effective and efficient delivery of forecasting and reporting for both operating and capital expenditure for IT and specific areas of Group overheads.

Responsibilities

Performance Reporting & Business Partnering Summary

• Financial Monitoring & Reporting: Oversee Group overhead expenditure, provides early warnings on budget overruns, and delivers timely performance reports to support financial targets and KPIs.
• Variance Analysis & Modelling: Investigates budget variances and supports cost-saving through forecasting and financial modelling to inform business decisions.
• IT & Business Partnering: Leads account consolidation, develops overhead reporting, and collaborates across teams to ensure accurate financial representation.
• Financial Control & Decision-Making: Establishes and drives financial control processes across services, projects, and IT cost allocation.

Rolling Forecast

• Leads budget production across capital, operating, and cash streams.
• Supports development of a monthly rolling forecast model in Cognos and maintains headcount reporting models.

Operational Insights

• Contributes to feasibility studies and business cases, focusing on cost-benefit and ROI analysis.

Control Environment

• Ensures robust financial processes for clean audits and compliance with IT and corporate policies.

Business Reporting

• Implements and advises on cost charging strategies, maintains Cognos Group overhead reporting, and develops new reports as needed.

People Management & Engagement

• Manages a team of 2 setting goals, providing support, feedback, and fostering development, motivation, and high performance.

Projects & Ad Hoc Support

• Provides financial support to projects including centralisation and IT transformation initiatives

About You 

Ideally you will have:

• Professional Accountancy Qualification. (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
• Have expertise in the analysis and reporting of financial costs and forecasts against budgets.
• Ability to work comfortably with multiple priorities across multiple stakeholders of various seniority and make contingency plans to account for changing work priorities, deadlines, and milestones.
• Excellent communicator both verbal & written with the ability to advise and support using analysis and trend information generated.

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) 

• Private medical insurance (employee & family cover)  

• Car allowance 

• Annual Bonus Scheme 

• 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) 

• 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

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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