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Job title: Finance Business Partner

Location: Vitacress Salads, St Marybourne, Andover (Hybrid)

Salary range: £60,000 - £65,000 (depending on experience)

Shift pattern: Monday to Friday, 8.30 - 5pm.

Hours: 40

Contract type: Permanent.

Are you an experienced business partner within finance looking for the next challenge in your career?

Well this could be a great opportunity for you!

Working closely with the Commercial and Operations teams you will be responsible for gross margin maintenance and operational efficiency of Vitacress Salads. You will be an integral part of the Commercial team helping to make pricing decisions, defend price challenges, negotiate annual terms, and consider new product development. You will also have the opportunity to work closely in supporting business partner of Operations to drive efficiency.

You will get to be involved in a wide range of tasks covering reporting, business partnering, and any other additional business requirements.

Main responsibilities:

* Design and develop Qlik reporting for Commercial and Operations from IFS data.

* Daily and weekly labour cost reporting to the business with highlights of challenges and opportunities.

* Business partner the Heads of Commercial and Operations providing accurate, insightful, timely information for decision making ensuring adequate financial control.

* Develop and own the financial forecast for Commercial and Operations.

* Ensure that factory costs are accurately apportioned to individual products to derive meaningful product profitability.

* Review sales, marketing and operational accruals and journals.

* Compile the month end commentary and financial analysis for the sales, marketing and operations including price/ volume/ mix variance, labour cost and waste analysis.

* Assist with strategic forecasting by producing detailed sales forecast driven by estimates of market growth market developments

You will have excellent interpersonal and communications skills with the ability to communicate with and explain financial concepts to non-finance people. You will also have the ability to conduct Report writing and extracting information from ERP systems, as well as be highly numerate with ability to handle large volume of data and skim information from that for analysis, reporting and business decisions.

Having advanced Excel skills to design and maintain efficient analysis and reporting model would be an essential key element to this role for you to have previous experience within.

Ideally you will be qualified as an accountant and have relevant experience working within the manufacturing or food industry.

Apply today or for any further information please do get in touch with our Talent Acquisition Team