Senior Commercial Finance Analyst - Greencore : Job Details

Why Greencore?

We're a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer, employing around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK's food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY23, we generated revenues of £1.9bn.

Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,400 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.

What you'll be doing:

Role Purpose To influence and support Commercial and Purchasing decisions by bringing financial objectivity, challenge and insight to proactively support the business while managing the full reporting process and relevant team

Key Accountabilities:

• Provide leadership and direction to the team ensuring that they are engaged, focused, developed and delivering their potential
• Drive commercial budget/quarterly forecasts, demonstrating an understanding of the key drivers, to inform strategic decision making
• Identify, challenge and proactively satisfy internal customer requirements to provide information, interpretation and insight to the business teams to promote effective delivery of commercial performance
• Continuously review business practices to make recommendations for changes which will enhance cost efficiency
• Preparation and monitoring of monthly accrual schedules, review transactional reports and ensure queries are resolved in timely and effective manner.
• Validate and monitor excellence initiatives for monthly, quarterly, and yearly reporting
• Approve and validate promotional activity within the business to ensure margin is not diluted

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Part qualified/qualified finance professional preferably in a FMCG/manufacturing/commercial finance environment
• Willingness to learn and drive best practice within the commercial finance team
• Understanding of manufacturing processes/margin management
• A methodical and logical approach to data management and communication
• A `can do' attitude demonstrated in a challenging environment.
• A supportive yet challenging demeanour to ensure insight and margin driving
• Strong system skills, ideally BI systems and advanced/strong excel skills