Finance Business Partner

We have an exciting opportunity for an individual looking for a new role. This is an exciting time to be joining the Worldwide Fruit team as we invest and integrate new systems and ways of working into our business and looking forward to the future!

• Performance Reporting:

Deliver accurate and timely management information in line with weekly, monthly, and yearly cycles. Management information should be informative with commentary and insight and used to challenge performance and drive action to support the business in beating the budget.

• Business Partnering:

Provide commercial and procurement finance input and insight into the commercial and procurement teams for tender processes, service provision models, new business opportunities, price modelling, inflation recovery and other commercial/procurement appraisals. Provide operational finance input and insight into the operational and logistics team, working with them to deliver performance against agreed KPIs and targets. Work alongside other areas of the business to support and track the delivery of the profit improvement process.

• Ad hoc and project work:

Generate ad hoc information to support the analysis of business performance. Be involved and provide financial support on project work.

• Budget and forecasting:

Coordinate the generation of the commercial, purchasing, and operational elements of Budgets and Forecasts and review outputs with key stakeholders to ensure the numbers are realistic and deliverable.

• Costings:

Ensure the costing system is maintained, up to date and error free. Ensure key users are trained and supported in the use of the costing system.

• Month-end/Year end:

Contribute to an efficient and robust month-end process ensuring any differences to reported weekly flash numbers are understood and communicated. Sales and margin balance sheets are reconciled, understood and balances are justified.