Grocery Finance Business Partner

2 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Fmcg Jobs Full time £60,000 - £100,000 per year

GVA Search is proud to be partnering exclusively with a rapidly growing and family-owned food manufacturing business in London, who is looking to recruit a Grocery Finance Business Partner.

This role will focus on the Grocery channel of the business, working closely with the Grocery side of the business, supporting both the Food and Marketing teams across all channels, as well as ad hoc support across all areas of the business. The Grocery channel has grown significantly. Thanks to a strong partnership with leading retailers and customer's loyalty to the brand, they anticipate this channel to continue to grow as the business expands their reach.

The ideal candidate needs to work to a high level of accuracy with large amounts of data and learn finance systems quickly. This role will also require the ability to think strategically and provide detailed commercial analysis, with the ability to take your stakeholders with you on the journey.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES INCUDE:

Ownership and control of the entire Grocery P&L including all financials from Gross Sales through to EBITDA. This includes: Promotional funding, Trade discounts, consumer spend, Shopper marketing as well as all people spend. This also includes responsibility and oversight over logistics, including route to market and third-party hauliers cost within Grocery BU.Sign off on the closing of grocery monthly P&L and indirectly managing the management accountant and invoicing team on all Grocery specific items from accruals, prepayments, retailer invoicing, debit notes, promo accruals, complaints amongst others.Produce weekly and monthly KPI reporting of key business drivers, both financial and non-financial; including sales trend analysis, product mix, gross margins, service levels, price and promotional effectiveness, with variance to targets.Contribute to the regular forecasting and planning cycle, as well as ownership over annual budgeting and setting of targets.Supporting in strategic 5-year planning for the grocery business unit.Approving and controlling all external spend and advising / approving negotiations and terms around Joint Business plans (JBP's) with retailers.Financial governance of the S&OP process (Supply and Operations Planning). Ownership of M4 and Business Unit Review ensuring inputs are accurate and timely, and that action is taken where appropriate as well as all information consolidated, reported and presented in precise and clear manor back to executives and board for monthly, YTD performance and YTG forecast.Playing a critical role within the Finance leadership team in driving finance capabilities, process efficiency and improvement as well as helping develop, train and coach the wider finance team Leading critical elements of our finance transformation, including process/reporting simplification and automation. 

KEY EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent with post qualification experience. You will have relevant commercial business partnering experience, preferably in the FMCG, Grocery and/or multi-site environment.

This role would suit an ambitious and driven individual with excellent communication skills, who is at ease working in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment and comfortable challenging key business decisions. The successful candidate will ideally have prior experience of NAV and BI and strong on MS Excel skills; able to produce financial models and work accurately with large datasets.



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