Job Description
Brakes have a great opportunity for a Finance Business Partner to join the team on a full time, permanent basis.
As the Finance Business Partner, it is your responsibility to provide strategic analysis and insight into business performance. Understanding drivers of actual results compared to forecast and budget and leveraging this analysis into deliverable guidance and recommendations to managers and directors, both financial and non-financial.
The role will provide Business Partner support to management of the Brakes Catering sector as well as support the wider Corporate Finance team with involvement in process improvement, compliance, annual audit and ad-hoc projects.
We are offering a hybrid working contract with most of your time spent working from home. However, you will be required to attend the office in Ashford, Kent once per week, so you must be comfortable and flexible with travel and commuting for project and team meetings.
Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:
- Responsible for forecasting/planning and analysing variances to forecasts for key business metrics such as volume, sales, margin, deliveries and key KPIs
- Liaise with managers to rigorously challenge and question their plan assumptions and KPIs on an on-going basis
- Responsible for BUR/MPR reporting for Brakes Catering Sector and Sodexo.
- Weekly/monthly and annual sales, margin and cost forecasting/budgeting
- Provide insight into projects to include initial evaluation, feedback and ongoing success tracking
- Reporting and monitoring the division's key performance indicators and investigating variances to budget or year on year movements
- A central point of contact for internal customers and stakeholders for finance related queries
- Ad hoc analysis/guidance/investigation to improve performance to drive performance
- Work closely with non-finance teams to drive compliance and improvement
- Provide insight and reporting based on contractual requirements and specifications
- Support the Head of Finance in tasks concerning the wider Corporate Finance team, including ongoing process improvement, compliance, audit and projects
About you:
You'll be a qualified accountant, (CIMA, ACCA, ACA) currently operating as a Finance Business Partner, Management Account or Finance Analyst, looking to join a global organisation as part of your career development.
We are looking for someone who will drive performance through insight and has a high level of commercial awareness and financial analysis and modelling experience. Strong Excel skills, including experience in financial analysis and modelling are essential and SAP experience is highly desirable. A great opportunity for someone who enjoys working within a commercial setting and is looking to broaden their finance business partnering skills. You will be self-motivated and driven to deliver results and positively influence key stakeholders.
What you'll receive:
- A competitive salary
- Company car allowance of £5,500
- Pension scheme
- Single private medical healthcare cover
- Generous holiday allowance of 25 days, with option to purchase additional holidays + bank holidays
- Huge discounts on all sorts of lovely food and award-winning products through our staff shop
- Discounts on Cinema tickets, shopping and earn cashback on purchases through Sodexo.
- Recognition awards and Incentives
- Real career opportunities - being part of Sysco, the world's leading foodservice business, opens up a world of possibility