Management Accountant

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Management Accountant / Finance Business Partner

Salary: Competitive

Benefits: Bonus Scheme, private healthcare and a range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)

Location: Bakkavor Meals London -Cumberland site (Park Royal)

Ways of Working: Hybrid - Minimum 3 days at the site

Shift Pattern: Monday- Friday 8am -4.30pm

Contract: Permanent

Why join us?

We're ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The fast-paced, high-pressure environment of our 24/7 operation keeps us agile and offers a wide range of career opportunities to explore. We encourage everyone to push their limits, work hard, and demonstrate resilience. And it's thrilling. Because by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, we'll continue to diversify, grow as individuals, and succeed together. We're proud to offer you a career with significant potential for development. We recognize your hard work and ambition, offering plenty of support and opportunities as a talented Management Accountant. We empower you to drive your own success and build a career you can truly be proud of.

What we do.

This particular role is at our Bakkavor Meals site in Park Royal - West London. Split across 3 factories and 1 distribution centre. The factories make chilled ready meals, houmous dips, deli products & savoury accompaniments and employs over 2,000 people.

About the role.

In this busy and exciting role, you will provide a high-quality service to support to internal stakeholders as the lead point of contact for one of the factories. This is not your typical management accountant role, you'll be hands on working closely with operations providing support from a finance perspective. Including responsibility to report, drive and challenge Factory Performance reporting.

Role Accountabilities.
Preparing reports for review, circulate reports and present in meetings
Product costings analysis
Business partnering - building strong relationships with other functions
Applying the commercial and operational controls and escalating breaches to management
Preparing, reviewing and presenting costing analysis of our current and future product range- supporting commercial and development functions
Providing analysis on Capex opportunities at sites
Direct report responsibility
Be site finance lead on minor project implementations
Limited month end involvement About you
Experience in a similar role (desired but not essential)
Previous experience in working with Finance ERP systems
Desirable -CIMA/ACCA (or other recognised bodies) part qualified or QBE
Strong communication skills
Confident working with data & building analysis
Able to work to pace and deadlines.
Able to work independently and drive actions. 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.
Life Assurance (2.5 x salary)
Private medical insurance
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 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

At Bakkavor, we are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive, and we believe that diversity makes us stronger. We welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds and ensure fair, transparent recruitment practices. Learn more about our commitment in our Inclusion and Diversity Policy ( Inclusion & Diversity Policy ).

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