Job title: Finance Business Partner
Location: Vitacress Salads, Lower Link Farm, St Marybourne, Andover.
Salary range: £55,000 - £60,000 depending on experience.
Shift pattern: Monday to Friday, 8.30 - 5pm.
Hours: 40 - (Hybrid working available 2 days per week)
Contract type: Permanent.
Are you an experienced business partner within finance looking for the next challenge in your career? Do you speak fluent or a good level of Spanish? Want help provide support across a wider group function?
As our new business partner within our finance department you will have the opportunity to support operational and commercial departmental heads by providing analysis of financial data and performance, identifying trends and making recommendations for improvements.
By providing this key support you will help execute business improvement strategies and prepare business cases to enhance investment returns as well as analyse margins of existing and new business opportunities.
Main responsibilities:
* Ownership of Operational KPI's and responsibility for tracking performance against cost reduction savings plans.
* Providing monthly commentary explaining underlying causals behind production variances to budget and their impact on EBITDA.
* Assisting with preparation of operational budgets and ½ year forecasts.
* Partner the Heads of Operations and Farm Manager to provide accurate, insightful, timely information such that the financial impact of key projects is fully understood and to help release efficiency savings from the supply chain.
* Co-ordinate and facilitate the budgeting process for the UK factory and farm in Spain and hold regular meetings with management to discuss performance against these targets.
* Work closely with the Supply Chain team to develop the lean manufacturing techniques and culture of continuous improvement culture.
* Evaluate and critique new and existing products to ensure factory and farming costs are fully understood.
Ideally you will have experience working in the manufacturing or food industry with an analytical mind and a knowledge of business processes. Evidence of familiarity with ERP systems and standard costing would be essential.
You will be an excellent team player with good soft skills, able to communicate with different stakeholders and present and disseminate information well.
Please apply now or for any further information please do get in touch with our Talent Acquisition Team on TA@vitacress.com.
Vitacress Salads, based in leafy St Mary Bourne, Andover is one of the principal salad and watercress suppliers in the UK. With our own salad leaf farms, we take immense pride in delivering a field to fork operation. We grow, wash, pack and distribute salad and watercress for retailer own brands and our own brand Steve's Leaves. We take pleasure in ensuring the best possible standard and we will empower you to do the same. From the way we grow our products, to the relationships we maintain with customers, everyone knows exactly what is going on. We are authentic and grounded. At the centre of everything is a trust that you can feel every day at work. From the salads that are grown on site; to the investment in facilities and the growth of the business; to growing and nurturing our talented employees, growing is truly at the heart of what we do. Join us and become a trusted partner in our business.
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