Finance Lead Reporting and Controls

6 days ago


Southall, Greater London, United Kingdom Pilgrim's Food Masters Full time

Finance Lead Reporting and Controls:

  • Accounting
  • Finance Manager
  • Southall, United Kingdom
  • Permanent / Full Time
16/8/2023


We are Pilgrim's Food Masters, part of the Pilgrim's family since September 2021, (previously part of Kerry Foods) and we have a proud history of developing brilliant food for our customers and consumers that is enjoyed in millions of UK and Irish homes every year.


The wider Pilgrim's company employs around 60,000 people across the globe and we're one of the world's biggest food companies.

We aim to become the best and most respected company in our industry creating the opportunity of a better future for all our team members.


Our Pilgrim's Food Masters portfolio includes famous brands that are some of the UK and Ireland's favourites, such as Denny, Galtee, Richmond and Fridge Raiders.

We are the UK's biggest producer of prepared meals, making delicious chilled and frozen ready meals for every major supermarket in the UK.

And our Accelerator business includes newer brands like Rollover Hot Dogs and Oakhouse Meals that target different consumer groups in unique ways.


We strive every day to make Pilgrim's Food Masters a safe, healthy and happy place to work for all of our 4,500 employees.

We will give full and equal consideration to all applicants regardless of age, gender, disability, race, religion and sexual orientation.

Continuing to build a diverse workforce is fundamental to our business and we value the critical role it plays in creating a truly inclusive workplace.


Role Description

The Operations Finance Lead Reporting and Controls will have overall responsibility for financial controls/SOX compliance and financial reporting across the Noon and Spurway sites.

There is significant opportunity to improve operational performance and profitability with additional financial insights.

The purpose of this role is to embed improved processes and controls in order to ensure that operational reporting is timely, accurate, insightful and actionable.


You will be a member of the senior leadership team delivering on strategic operational, financial support and leadership across the Sites through empowering finance and operations teams to deliver business performance and growth targets.

Coordination of the month end process for Noon and Spurway. Taking ownership for month end delivery within the agreed timetable.

Adopt a continuous improvement mindset whereby the efficient production and relevance of reporting is constantly reviewed.

Responsibility for the identification of best practice process controls and their implementation within the SAP and Innova system platforms.


Taking a lead role in target setting and performance management to translate the business priorities into performance goals and growth plans at sites.


Partnering with business leaders to identify and recommend opportunities to maximise profitability and seek out game changing ideas, inspire bigger picture stretched thinking.

Delivery of performance metrics, identifying variances and understanding opportunities and risks. Stay close to performance and follow regularly to track progress.

Strategy and deployment - provide key insights and influence on operational priorities. Develop a plan for continuous improvement - ways of working, controls and reporting.

Prioritise, manage, allocate and reallocate resources across key projects and key areas of business priority. Implement best practices through effective collaboration and change management techniques.

Insight and analysis - provide financial insight and analysis on business performance. Develop and embed standard analysis processes. Challenge themselves and others in an informed way to reduce costs and grow margin. Bring clarity and rigour to data, capture and incorporate the best insight to help generate workable solutions.


Functional excellence, building capability, capacity and culture - lead the finance team with confidence, embrace a change mindset and culture, always considering what might be possible.

Ability to engage and influence and drive a culture of curiosity and questioning to drive efficiency and performance. Empower others to deliver business performance metrics and growth targets as if it were your own business. Invest time in your on leadership skills development and your wider team. Build and stretch across functional high performing teams. Champion recognition and celebrate success.

Skills and Experience


You will have strong relationship management skills for developing and maintaining internal and external stakeholders and have the drive and determination to achieve results through people and deliver on deadlines.

Exceptional analytical, problem-solving and decision making skills combined with a focus on achieving deadlines and maintaining the highest quality output.

You will also have outstanding numerical skills and be a logical thinker. CIMA, ACA or ACCA qualified with IFRS technical skills, auditin
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