Senior Financial Controller

3 days ago

Low Fulney, United Kingdom CV-Library Full time

Senior Financial Controller

We thrive on challenge and change. We rise to challenges together.

Salary: £110,000 to £126,000 Depending on Experience

Spalding: 4 days on site

£9,600 Car Allowance

25% Bonus

Income Protection

Private Healthcare

Executive Health Screening

Life Assurance

25 days holiday

Relocation support (Ts & Cs apply)

Highly competitive rewards package including Group Pension

Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group

Why join us?

We're proud to offer you a career with options to explore and pursue. Where you'll be supported to work hard, push further, and show resilience. As a valued Senior Financial Controller 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.

Who are Bakkavor:

Bakkavor Spalding has three factories based on the same site in Spalding, Lincolnshire, employing over 1500 people. These production units produce soups, sauces, dips as part of our meals range as well as salad accompaniments such as coleslaw and pasta salads, sandwich wraps and food to go salads.

We currently have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Financial Controller at our Spalding Meals site.

The Role.

As a key member of the Spalding Site Leadership & Meals Sector Finance teams, you will be responsible for:
Partnering with the site General Manager to deliver the operational financial plan for a £220m turnover site.
Input into the development and delivery of functional and business objectives
The financial conscience of the site ensuring good financial decisions are taken in all areas of the business
Leading the site finance team in operating a strong financial control framework, delivering against all internal and external reporting requirements.
A senior member of the finance community in the Bakkavor group, striving to adopt and share best practice at all times.
To be the finance support on all outbound/inbound distribution activity, partnering the Head of Distribution and Supply Chain Performance
Championing the Finance Transformation agenda on site ensuring all activity is well communicated and fully supported. Key Accountabilities.

Strategic Partnerships - Act as a key advisor to business unit leaders, providing financial insights that influence strategic decisions. Foster strong collaborative relationships with stakeholders to ensure alignment of financial strategies with business objectives.

Financial Control - To provide overall business and financial control and support to the business operating as part of the Site Leadership Team

Performance Reporting & Improvement - Develop and maintain comprehensive performance reporting tools. Identify, evaluate, and recommend cost reduction and efficiency improvement opportunities. Work closely with operational teams to implement cost-saving initiatives and track their progress against defined financial targets.

Forecasting - Lead the budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning processes for assigned business units. Ensure plans are delivered to drive progressive financial metrics with corrective action put in place when performance deviates from target

Investments - Ensure that capital and non capital investments are robustly appraised and are consistent with the business plan. Provide detailed variance analysis and actionable insights to guide performance improvement.

Change Management - Support the finance and business teams through change initiatives, ensuring that financial systems, processes, and controls are adapted to meet evolving business needs.

Functional Impact - To be the finance support on all outbound/inbound distribution activity, acting as a financial conscience for the Head of Distribution and Supply Chain Performance, assisting in the financial evaluation of project activity & being a conduit into the broader finance function as required.

People Management - To lead the site finance function. To recruit, lead, motivate and inspire direct reports to achieve personal development and continual improvement.

About you.
Professional Accountancy Qualification (preferably CIMA).
Experience of working in a fast -paced manufacturing business preferably food manufacturing.
Experience of business partnering in a multi-functional environment.
Great inter-personal skills - able to build effective relationships with individuals at all levels of the business.
The ability to operate in an autonomous role on an autonomously run site - making decisions as required but knowing when to escalate or seek guidance and support.
Ability to drive cultural change to true value led operational finance business partnering.
Strong commercial acumen with clear and measurable successes in current and prior roles.
Ambassador for the Bakkavor values and to champion an inclusive culture.
Please note this is a hybrid light role so will require on site presence for a minimum of 4 days a week. 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:
Car allowance £9,600
Bonus up to 25%
A stakeholder pension scheme
Income Protection
Executive Health Screening
Personal accident Insurance
Free independent mortgage advice
Employee assistance programme
A range of voluntary benefits
Holiday purchase scheme
Additional life assurance
Dental & hospital cash plans
Discounted tutoring for children
Access to financial learning tools
Affordable loans via your salary
Proud to be and loyal service awards.
Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. What you can expect from us:
When joining us you can expect a competitive salary, bonus, private medical and a strong benefits package and excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group.

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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