Regional Finance Manager

POSITION TITLE: Regional Finance Manager (Home Based/Remote, but with 70% of time travelling to site)

LOCATION: Home based with regular travel Yorkshire / North East

REPORTS TO: Head of Finance

ABOUT THE ROLE

Responsibility for management accounting, forecasting, commercial analysis, and decision support relating to the branches within the region.

Working closely with the Branch Managers and Head of Finance to maximise commercial opportunities and identify risks and opportunities within the region.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Proactive Finance Business Partner providing support, challenge and insight to the Branch Managers and Regional Directors
• To deliver timely, accurate & relevant financial information & analysis to key stakeholders including:
• Monthly and quarterly forecasts
• Annual budgets
• Variance analysis
• KPI’s
• Ad-hoc analysis to drive business performance
• Identifying risks and opportunities to enable delivery of the targets
• Develop, rigorously challenge, and question the budget/forecast assumptions and KPIs
• Provision of the Monthly Review Packs and participation in the Monthly Branch Review Meeting
• Identify and explain business performance variances and recommendations for improvements
• Consignment reconciliation, analysis, and challenge
• Margin management through analysis and challenge
• Develop and understand distribution cost reporting & KPI’s
• Benchmarking performance across locations
• Monitor new business performance and profitability
• Monthly accruals, prepayments, and balance sheet reconciliations
• Attend monthly stock takes
• Maintain strong financial controls across all areas
• Support the Head of Finance as required through analysis and project activity

COMPLIANCE

• Working in accordance with SOX internal control framework to minimise risk and ensure transparency
• Ensure that all company policies and statutory requirements are adhered to
• Liaise with internal and external auditors
• Ensuring tasks are evidenced and saved in accordance with delegation of authority matrix in timely manner
• Ensure segregation of duties within branches are aligned with control framework

EXPERIENCE

• Flexible team player who can help change behaviour both by compelling nature of analysis and by working closely with colleagues to drive improvements
• Demonstrates a sense of personal ownership, is results driven and has a ‘can do’ attitude
• Enthusiasm and tenacity to strive for continuous improvement
• Ability to adapt quickly in changing environments
• The ability to prioritise and effectively manage time
• Ability to build relationships across all levels of the business cross functionally.
• Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Comfortable being the only Finance person within the region
• Management accounting in an FMCG manufacturing environment
• Good communication skills and ability to build strong business relationships
• Experience of influencing non-Finance colleagues
• Demonstrable experience of process improvement and stakeholder management
• Ability to use own initiative and to adapt to changes in the industry
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Experience in the fresh produce industry
• Multi-site experience

QUALIFICATIONS

• Qualified Accountant, ideally CIMA

TERMS & CONDITIONS

• Remuneration: £60K dependent upon candidate experience
• Car allowance: £4K

This role whilst home based, will need to be completed from a UK base and unfortunately can't offer sponsorship for a work visa and you will need to be able to commute to 3 operational sites across Yorkshire and the North East of England.