Associate Finance Analyst – Business FP&A

Job title:

Associate Finance Analyst – Business FP&A

Company

Bakkavor

Job description

Finance AnalystBusiness Area: UK FP&ALocation: Highbridge, Somerset – HybridContract: Permanent
Salary: Up to £34k per annum dependent on skill and experienceWorking Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5:00pmWhy join us.
We’re proud to offer you a career with possibilities. Where you’ll be supported to work hard, aim high and bring your best to work, every day. As a valued Finance Analyst, we’ll support your ambition, reward your resilience, and encourage you to rise to challenges and create a career you can be proud of too.What we do.We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry – supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose.About this role.Are you a dynamic Finance professional with a passion for numbers, ready to take your finance career to the next level? This is your chance to join our UK FP&A Team as a Junior Finance Analyst – Business FP&A and play a key role in transforming finance processes while growing with us. If you’re tech-savvy, thrive in fast-paced environments, and love solving financial puzzles, keep reading!As a Junior Finance Analyst, you’ll be at the core of our financial planning and reporting processes, with a focus on:

  • Performance Reporting: Prepare, consolidate, and analyse daily and weekly trackers, plus support the production of monthly P&Ls and balance sheets. You’ll also dive into ad-hoc reports, detecting errors, and making data-driven recommendations to enhance business performance.
  • Forecasting: Work on our 13-week Tracker Forecasts, quarterly rolling forecasts, and 3-year business plans. You’ll prepare templates and perform variance analysis to explain discrepancies, ensuring accuracy.
  • Costing & Pricing: Partner with procurement to provide data for price forecasting, update pricing info, and contribute to costing analyses like product launch reviews or promotional impact assessments.
  • Communication & Change Management: Build strong relationships with key internal stakeholders, driving process improvement and harmonisation across the UK FP&A team.
  • Control Environment: Assist with internal and external audit activities, ensuring everything runs smoothly.

About you.

  • You’re a problem-solver with a keen eye for detail.
  • You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment and are open to change.
  • You enjoy collaborating with diverse teams and are great at building relationships.
  • You’re curious, data-driven, and always looking for ways to improve processes.

Must-Haves:

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills – clarity is key!
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office (especially Excel, Word, and PowerPoint).
  • Understanding of operational finance, financial forecasting, and analysis.
  • Ability to juggle multiple tasks, meet tight deadlines, and prioritize effectively.
  • An interest in professional accounting qualifications (AAT, ACA, ACCA, or CIMA) is a bonus, but not essential!

What you’ll receive.
As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.You’ll enjoy:

  • Life Assurance (1 x salary)
  • 25 days holiday
  • Staff Shop
  • Stakeholder Pension Scheme
  • MyBargains Discount Platform
  • Personal Accident Insurance
  • Free Independent Mortgage Advice
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
  • Discounted tutoring for children
  • Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
  • Private Medical Insurance (employee)
  • Free Carparking

Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions.Proud to be Bakkavor.We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. We’re driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!Find out more and apply.#LI-MG1BakkavorWe are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, and our presence in the US and China positions the Group well in these high-growth markets. We leverage our consumer insight and scale to provide innovative food that offers quality, choice, convenience, and freshness. Around 18,000 colleagues operate from 44 sites across our three markets supplying a portfolio of over 3,000 products across meals, pizza & bread, salads and desserts to leading grocery retailers in the UK and US, and international food brands in China.Category: FinanceLocation:Highbridge, GB, TA9 4JRDate: 18 Sep 2024Req ID: 21606

Expected salary

£34000 per year

Location

Highbridge, Somerset

Job date

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 23:11:58 GMT

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