• Responsible to deliver the London Kitchen financial objectives
• Driving performance improvements through effective collaboration with London Site Leadership Team & Senior Management
• Preparation & review of London Kitchen P&L & insightful commentary
• Preparation of annual budgets & standard costs
• Review, challenge & support of proposals raised within various forums (London Steering).
• Business Partnering with Commercial for accurate costing & feasibility of new launches.
• Working with Business Processes Owners (PIMDOG) to develop and Implement Business Wide automated reporting framework and dashboards
• Adhoc analysis & modelling (Capacity, recruitment etc)
• Support & assist development of Assistant Management Accountant

Key Accountabilities:

1. Ensuring controls & improvements for London product margins & site overheads
2. Providing Reporting & Analysis to support London Kitchen & Senior Management
3. Providing Reporting and Analysis to support the Commercial Department
4. Preparation monthly results & forecasts in line with business deadlines.
5. Develop and support a Business wide automated KPI reporting process (MIS)
6. Work with Senior Finance Business Partner on overall Business Strategy
7. Support Assistant Management Accountant on support London Kitchen

Key areas of work:

Finance Business Partner To Commercial Department

• Support and challenge the commercial team with performance mgt
• Optimising pricing, promotional spend and GP mix
• Ensure effective processes and controls for changes to prices & trade spend
• Provide strategic challenge around full customer P&Ls and Categories and segments of business. Support managing the Portfolio.
• Work with the Commercial Analyst to ensure effective alignment of demand planning and financial reporting & LE (S&OP step 1)
• Effectively managing distribution costs by periodic review

Finance Business Partner for the London Kitchen

• Managing the London Kitchen P&L
• Understanding the trends and variances for the London kitchen Std costs
• Helping the London Kitchen review and update Live Standard Costs
• Providing challenge & support to the London Site Leadership Teams weekly meetings & London Site Steering meetings
• Detailed analysis to support London Kitchen specific projects in line with operational strategy and objectives.
• Supporting the process to ensure accurate of optimal kitchen overheads
• Effectively managing distribution costs by periodic review
• Producing annual kitchen budgets and budgeted standard costs and monitoring actual expenditure against the budget & forecasts (LE)

Co-lead Information Management across the business (focus on financial)

• Work with Business Systems on resigning and implementing a master data framework for Bighams
• Work with Key Users (PIMDOG) to ensure relevant balanced scorecards and automated reporting are “fit for purpose”
• Work with Business Systems to ensure the data architecture meets the business needs (not the IT part the business part)
• Work with key users to coordinate best practice or perhaps an “academy” for best practice dashboards, reports, KPIs.
• Document, train and measure performance usage of reporting going forward, again ensuring it’s “fit for purpose” ie consistent/intuitive/useful etc.

Experience:

• Experience of working in a medium or large company with modern reporting and data management processes
• Experience of working in an FMCG or food manufacturing organisation

Qualifications: 

• Qualified accountant with at least 5 years PQE (ACA/ACCA/CIMA), or qualified by experience in relevant FMCG environment with 7 years +

Skills and Attributes

• Excellent Excel skills
• Ability to manage out workload and prioritise tasks to meet deadlines
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to develop positive relationships
• Accurate with a high level of attention to detail.
• Experience of modern data driven reporting tools such as Power BI etc (Desirable)
• A confident communicator
• Results oriented with a ‘can do’ attitude