Finance Business Partner

Job title:  Finance Business Partner

Location: Vitacress Salads, St Marybourne, Andover

Salary range: £60,000 - £65,000 (depending on experience)

Shift pattern: Monday to Friday, 8.30 - 5pm.

Hours: 40

Contract type: Permanent.

Are you an experienced business partner within finance looking for the next challenge in your career?

Are you someone who is inquisitive and enjoys coming up with new ideas within a team function?

Well this could be a great opportunity for you!

Working closely with the Commercial and Operations teams you will be responsible for gross margin maintenance and operational efficiency of Vitacress Salads. You will be an integral part of the Commercial team helping to make pricing decisions, defend price challenges, negotiate annual terms, and consider new product development. You will also have the opportunity to work closely in supporting business partner of Operations to drive efficiency.

You will get to be involved in a wide range of tasks covering reporting, business partnering, and any other additional business requirements.

Main Responsibilities

• Design and develop Qlik reporting for Commercial and Operations from IFS data.
• Daily and weekly labour cost reporting to the business with highlights of challenges and opportunities.
• Business partner the Heads of Commercial and Operations providing accurate, insightful, timely information for decision making ensuring adequate financial control.
• Develop and own the financial forecast for Commercial and Operations.
• Ensure that factory costs are accurately apportioned to individual products to derive meaningful product profitability.
• Review sales, marketing and operational accruals and journals.
• Compile the month end commentary and financial analysis for the sales, marketing and operations including price/ volume/ mix variance, labour cost and waste analysis.
• Assist with strategic forecasting by producing detailed sales forecast driven by estimates of market growth market developments
  
  

You will have excellent interpersonal and communications skills with the ability to communicate with and explain financial concepts to non-finance people.

You will also have the ability to conduct Report writing and extracting information from ERP systems, as well as be highly numerate with ability to handle large volume of data and skim information from that for analysis, reporting and business decisions.

Having advanced Excel skills to design and maintain efficient analysis and reporting model would be an essential key element to this role for you to have previous experience within.

We are looking for someone who is sharp, hungry and who is happy to get stuck in as part of a wider team. You will have the ability to define and shape processes and make a positive impact.

Apply today or for any further information please do get in touch with our Talent Acquisition Team on [email protected]

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 out talented employees, growing is truly at the heart of what we do. Join us and become a trusted partner in our business.