THOSE WHO KNOW YOU WOULD DESCRIBE YOU AS:

• Having drive and commitment
• Personable
• Good team player
• Good organisation and time management skills
• Working well under pressure and able to meet tight deadlines
• Someone who would be a great addition to our Finance team
• Flexibility to meet the challenges of the business needs

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Qualified Accountant (CIMA/ACCA)
• Excel skills
• Experience within a manufacturing business essential

ABOUT THE ROLE

A key member of the Lottie Shaws Management team, helping to drive the business forward in a profitable manner, offering valuable insights and process improvement through accurate and timely reporting to both internal and external stakeholders. Taking the lead onfinancial matters and ensuring delivery of business and operational objectives.

KEY ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Finance business partner and advisor to the Business Unit Lead and General Manager taking lead onfinancial matters and ensuring delivery of business objectives
• Preparation of the Weekly/ Monthly accounts and supporting KPIs to supply variance analysis and commentary for Financial performance
• Drive improvements to performance and procedures, through identification of relevant data, reporting and CI planning
• Develop and maintain costings of all live SKUs to capture key, raw materials, labour and supply chain information
• Provide accurate new product costings in a timely manner to support the NPD Process
• Lead the annual standard cost roll up for all live raw material, labour and finish goods costs
• Responsibility for tracking in year savings for all CI initiatives and capital proposals
• Working closely with the Lottie Shaws Management team to produce robust budget and in year forecasts, including review pack which summarises key assumptions, along with drivers and drainers
• Ad hoc, proactive investigation, reports, capital proposals and financial propositions relevant to business/ function strategy and performance
• Be the key finance support for overhead spend approval and reporting, holding regular reviews with stakeholders with the focus on spending control
• Management of accruals and prepayments
• Month End processing including Group packs.
• Complete monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations
• Support the line manager where required
• Any other duties as requested by your line manager