Job Title: Assistant Finance Manager
Contract: Permanent Full Time
Location: Stockton
Are you currently working in finance, part-qualified and looking for a step up into a new challenge?
Due to an internal promotion, we are currently looking for an Assistant Finance Manager to join our Stockton site.
Essential Ingredients
1. Part qualified studying towards CIMA or equivalent
2. Budget Management experience
3. Variance analysis experience
4. Able to deputise and work with the operations site leadership team as required, with the ability to roll your sleeves up and get involved across the site as a trusted adviser
5. A passion for data with the ability to interpret results, clearly communicating and ensuring understanding of both finance and non-finance colleagues
6. Proficient in Excel, working with spreadsheets and reporting
7. Comfortable and confident to make effective business decisions
The Recipe
Working alongside the Operations Finance Manager, you will have good knowledge and understanding of management accounting. By translating financial performance to non-financial colleagues within Manufacturing and Distribution, you will provide actionable insight to support decisions and keep performance on track.
You’ll be our finance expert in Stockton and be involved in managing site finances, capital spend, forecasting, budgeting and spend tracking. As part of the wider operations finance team, you will gain experience of working with colleagues from a network of bakeries and depots, provide support on national projects and step in as required for your peers.
Continuous improvement is championed both personally as you progress your financial qualification and professionally through efficiencies in financial processes. Crucially, you will be using your excellent communication skills to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders across the business.
About Us
Our Stockton bakery, based in the Northeast has recently seen an investment of over £18 million pounds in our manufacturing operations creating a new thin bagel line! So, with state-of-the-art machinery and a team of over 100 strong, we’re ensuring that our quality freshly baked products are the very best quality and ready for delivery across the UK!
As ‘the UK’s No. 1 Bakery Brand’ we have been baking bread since 1876. Today, we are proudly a sixth-generation family business, supplying over 18,000 retail customers from 11 bakeries and 16 depots, producing a range of over 70 products, including gluten and wheat free.
We are striving to be a net zero business by 2050 and believe that we must minimise our impact on the environment, whilst making a positive impact on the society we are a part of.
Extra Dough
You’ll want to know what your bread is worth:
8. A slice of the annual profits (discretionary profit share)
9. Family time is important to us, and we know it will be to you, so you will have 5 weeks holiday and bank hols. Plus, the opportunity to purchase up to an extra week annual leave
10. Award winning pension scheme
11. Products you will love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website
12. Support for your health and wellbeing, including access to free physiotherapy, 24/7 access to a confidential helpline for practical advice and a comprehensive occupational health service
At Warburtons we aim to respect and value difference, creating an inclusive workplace that values diversity. We value all protected characteristics and more importantly, look to have an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work and be themselves.