OPERATIONAL FINANCE BUSINESS PARTNER

We drive our own success
Shift: Monday – Friday
Hours: 08:30 – 17:00
Contract: Permanent
Location: Bakkavor Meals, Bourne – PE10 0AT
Competitive salary + bonus scheme, Private Healthcare, Pension, Flexible benefits package, Excellent career progression across the Bakkavor Group

WHAT WE DO.

This particular role is at our Bakkavor Meals site in Bourne who specialise in preparing fruit, dressed salads, noodles and stir fry. They employ over 1,200 people and are only 16 miles from Peterborough and 12 miles from Spalding.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Collaborating with the operations team to understand factory performance and support decision making.
• Translating complex financial data into actionable business insights.
• Tracking any new operational initiatives, supporting the justification of investment where required and measuring returns post investment or post launch.
• Acting as the financial specialist for costings to ensure they are understandable, reflect reality and have appropriate comparable.
• Producing ad hoc reporting related to factory performance.
• Working with the relevant teams to deliver robust operational variance forecasts.
• Stepping up to cover the senior finance business partner and supporting the finance function.

In this demanding and integrated role, you will analyse, understand and support improvements to specific areas of the factory. You will often be working in the factory with operational managers, OPEX colleagues and the wider operations team to influence decision making and drive efficiencies. You will be involved in the full product lifecycle from inception to production.