Job Description

Your impact will be huge in driving the business forward and we’re excited to see you:

• Be the business partner for the Thurrock set-up project, supporting the team to set up our new site by Summer 2021
• Be the finance business partner for key strategic factory CapEx, managing the reporting, insight, and forecasting for these budgets.
• Develop and design multisite financial processes and reporting requirements to enable successful and consistent processes in all of our sites

• Fully embed yourself in the Supply Tribe, to become the go-to person for Thurrock site financial business partnering
• Challenge the Thurrock Operations and Supply teams to move the needle on KPIs, and perform in line with expectations
• Work with the Supply Tribe and Finance Team to ensure the wider impacts of future proposition changes are assessed and taken into account for the operation in Thurrock
• Take the lead on commercial analysis and insight for the Thurrock operation, enabling the Thurrock Management Team to make key strategic decisions, and deliver the Budget
• Drive forecast accuracy for Thurrock budgets and KPIs, sharing a reliable forecast and action plan on a weekly/monthly basis with senior management, and proactively identifying and addressing key risks
• Lead the Thurrock annual budget and quarterly reforecast processes
• Support Head of Finance for Supply & Operations with multisite strategic projects

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

CIMA/ACCA Qualified. Successful, proven experience in relevant, similar finance roles Excellent communicator, with the ability to succinctly summarise complex financial information in an easy-to-understand manner for stakeholders of any level / function. Ability to build great relationships with people from across the business. Self-starter, with a real bias for action. Curious and proactive. We seek to understand problems deeply and are proactive and fast in anticipating future needs (business and customers). Speed and clarity matter! Tremendously ambitious: Think big. The opportunity is what you decide to make it. We want brave individuals who question "how can we?" and inspire the rest of the business to do the same. Strong commercial and analytical mindset, which supports you in prioritising your work, as well as prioritising what’s right for our customers. Leadership experience. Either as the manager of a team or via cross-functional projects where you drove change across the business. Resilience. We want a confident individual that pushes through in the toughest of times. Reflection, resistance and purpose is what will move you and the team forward. The "go to" person when it comes to solving complex problems in the simplest way possible.