Finance Business Partner Supply Chain

1 day ago

Loughborough, United Kingdom World of Sweets Full time

As the UK largest confectionery distributor, importer and wholesaler of confectionery products, you could say we make everything possible At World of Sweets, we're everything from innovative partners to category leading suppliers and our passion for sweets is at the heart of it all World of Sweets includes Hancocks Cash & Carry, Bonds of London and our sister Company Bobby's Foods.

Together we surprise, delight and excite our consumers and retailers everywhere with our fantastic range of the world's best confectionery brands. So come and join our in house team of experts and help to grow our business. There's lots of opportunity to make an impact in an ambitious company that 's built its way up from humble beginnings.

We are currently looking to recruit a Finance Business Partner to support our supply chain function to develop and take ownership for Supply Chain MI, providing sound financial analysis and making recommendations for process improvements. The role will business partner our Head of Supply Chain and operational management teams, so we are looking for someone with strong analytical experience, ideally within a manufacturing, distribution or transport sector previously.

Our distribution sites and Supply Chain teams are located within Nottinghamshire (Sutton in Ashfield and Worksop) and our Head Office is in Loughborough. This role can be based at any of these sites, however travel between them will be expected and needed at times along with being able to work from home.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Ownership and enhancement of existing Supply Chain MI ensuring accurate and timely reporting for all key stakeholders, including but not limited to; Labour cost management, Wastage/damages costs, customer credit information, transport costings and production variance analysis.
- Providing insight in interpreting this MI alongside the Head of Supply Chain and operations management & wider business with a view to:

- identifying opportunities for process efficiency improvements.
- driving corrective actions
- identifying opportunities for capital driven improvements.
- Support the Head of Supply Chain and operations management in quantifying financial impacts of process amendments under consideration.
- Backed by sound financial analysis, make recommendations for process improvements.
- Develop labour demand forecasts based upon historical requirements and order expectations.
- Support in business partnering other departments as necessary on an ad hoc basis.

We are ideally looking for someone who has a relevant financial qualification (Eg. ACA/CIMA) who has strong demonstrable communication skills with experience of partnering with business units previously. It goes without saying you will have an excellent working knowledge of Microsoft excel, experience of working with Power BI would also be advantageous but not necessary.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Schedule:

- Day shift

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