Investor Relations Senior Manager
Leading the way in creating great tasting fresh food, living our values and delivering profitable, sustainable growth while supporting you to have a successful career at Bakkavor.
Salary Competitive Salary
Benefits £9,600 Car Allowance, up to 25% Bonus, Private Healthcare for family
Location: Central London - Fitzroy (near Oxford Circus)
Ways of Working: Hybrid (3 days in office)
Houts of work: Monday to Friday - 37.5 hours
Contract Type: Permanent
Why join Bakkavor?
We're proud to offer you a career with possibilities. Where you'll be supported to work hard, aim high and bring your best to work, every day. As a valued Investor Relations Senior Manager, we'll support your ambition, reward your resilience, and encourage you to rise to challenges and create a career you can be proud of too.
You will help shape and deliver the Group's Investor Relations strategy ensuring investor confidence and belief in the company's equity story to deliver shareholder value.
What we do
We're the market leader in fresh prepared food. We supply a range of c.3,500 fresh products across meals, pizza & bread, salads and desserts to UK supermarkets, including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose, and international food brands. Our c.18,000 colleagues work across 43 sites in our three markets; UK, US and China. The Group's revenue is £2.3m, with c.85% generated in the UK. We are a FTSE 250 listed business. 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!
About the role
The Investor Relations Senior Manager plays a key role in shaping and delivering the Investor Relations strategy, including the external financial results and building relationships with external stakeholders, directly reporting to the Head of Finance - Investor Relations, Treasury & ESG. The successful candidate will need to have a strong sense of accountability, urgency and ownership and be highly organised.
Key responsibilities:
Delivery of the Group's external financial results
Prepare front-half sections, presentations, CEO / CFO scripts and Q&A
Partner with financial PR advisors to support development of external publications
Collaborate with regional leaders to distil key messages of performance
Liaise with key internal stakeholders to obtain relevant information
Ensure clear and consistent messaging
Own organisation of financial results; timeline, roadshows, webcasts, briefing books Delivery of Annual Report & Accounts ('ARA')
Lead and project manage the delivery of the ARA
Highly organised approach to ensure key reporting deadlines met
Key point person for the design agency & auditors
Collaborate with key stakeholders to prepare & review section content
Distil key messages
Consider changes to reporting requirements Build strong relationships with analysts
Build strong relationships with covering analysts
Ensure they have a clear understanding of the business
Respond to queries in a timely manner
Update analyst consensus model, review analyst models and feedback Other areas of responsibility
Review shareholder register analysis
Prepare materials for investor / analyst events
Support with investor targeting
Prepare monthly Group Board investor relations update
Prepare materials for conferences / presentations
Monitor listed peer performance and perform ad hoc analysis
Maintain investor relations calendar of events About You
Requirements for the role:
Excellent relationship building skills, you will be able to influence senior stakeholders, both internally and externally.
Willing to challenge and provide innovative solutions to problems
Proven project management skills, process driven and highly organised, adept at running processes with clear timelines, stakeholder management and deliverables
Strong financial acumen, with ability to interpret and analyse financial information and business trends
Excellent communication skills, including financial results drafting and presentations
Strong adaptability to work in a fast-paced environment, used to working to deliver on tight deadlines Ideally you will have:
Investor Relations experience in a listed company environment
Chartered Accountant or related qualification in Finance
Highly computer literate, with excellent command of Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint
Comfortable analysing detailed financial information and distilling key messages
Awareness of media and public relations Where you'll work:
The role is based out of our Fitzroy head office in central London, near Oxford Circus, with a minimum of three days in the office per week. You may be required to visit our manufacturing sites, and other locations from time to time. There will be investor events around the financial results that will take place primarily in London.
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.
You'll enjoy:
25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role)
Annual Bonus Scheme
Stakeholder Pension Scheme
Life Assurance (4 x salary)
Private Medical Insurance (employee & family cover)
Car allowance
Executive health screening
Income protection
Staff Shop
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 Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions.
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