Finance Business Partner | Hybrid with travel to Bristol, Cardiff and Southampton

Are you an experienced Finance Business Partner with a passion for fresh produce? If so, we have a unique opportunity to join a rapidly growing fresh produce business with responsibility for management accounting, forecasting, commercial analysis and decision support relating to the Wholesale Market Branches within the region.

Key responsibilities:

• Proactive Finance Business Partner providing support, challenge and insight to Branch Managers and Regional Directors.
• Support the Head of Finance as required.
• To deliver timely, accurate and relevant financial information including weekly, monthly and quarterly forecasts, annual budgets, KPIs and Variance Analysis.
• Identifying risks and opportunities to enable delivery of targets.
• Develop and continuously challenge and question the budget/forecast assumptions.
• Explain business performance variances and recommendations.
• Monthly review packs and meetings.
• Margin management.
• Attend monthly stock takes.
• Develop and understand distribution cost reporting & KPI's.
• Benchmarking performance.
• Monitor new business.
• Review of monthly accruals, prepayments and balance sheet reconciliations.

What are we looking for in you?

You must be a qualified accountant (ideally CIMA) with multi-site and management accounting experience within the fresh produce or FMCG sectors. It's essential that you're comfortable being the only finance person in the region and influencing non-finance colleagues. Other traits we are looking for include:

• Flexible team player
• Possess a 'can do' attitude whilst demonstrating tenacity
• Able to adapt to everchanging environments
• Ability to prioritise and manage your time
• Excellent communication skills in order to build relationships across all levels of the business
• Demonstratable experience of process improvement and stakeholder management
• Advanced MS Excel skills