Management Accountant
- Location:
- Northamptonshire jobs
- Salary:
- Competitive plus excellent benefits
- Company:
- Northern Foods plc
- Job type:
- Permanent jobs
- Date posted:
- 22/11/2009 18:03
- Job id:
- 45831947
- Contact:
- Georgina Scott
- Ref:
- Totaljobs
Management Accountant:
Northern Foodsenjoy a well earned reputation for creating great tasting food, producing a world class portfolio of brands, including Fox’s Biscuits and Goodfella’s Pizzas. To attract the very best talent, we offer varied opportunities which challenge and excite, an environment which fosters development and growth, and a culture which recognises and rewards effort.
With revenues of c. £1bn (2008/09), employing around 11,000 employees across 21 of our sites, we are focused around five key categories; Pizza, Biscuits, Ready meals, Sandwiches & Salads and Puddings. Northern Foods is well known for the quality of its food and its commitment to customer service, enjoying a long-standing reputation for innovation, developing great new food ideas in line with changing food trends.
As a result of continued growth, Northern Foods are now looking to recruit a Management Account with an Operational bias.
Job Purpose:
- To provide high quality, accurate financial information to drive and improve business performance within a fast moving chilled business environment.
- Working within a highly motivated finance team to supply insightful, high quality financial information and analysis in a timely fashion, that facilitates effective business decision making and support to enable a sustained step change in business performance.
- Analysis of factory variances, materials and labour to drive business performance in-conjunction with the operational teams of the business.
- To produce gross margin information during the budget and forecast process. This should include liaising with Factory Managers, understanding underlying assumptions and providing explanations for unusual trends/ movements.
- Generation and delivery of profit improvement plans that translate directly into improved P&L and KPI performance.
- To prepare weekly P&L forecasts for submission to Category, monitoring the forecast against actual performance in order to improve the accuracy.
- Site performance management that ensures performance commitments are met in an environment of “no surprises”.
- To be an integral part of the finance team and to influence the direction of our business performance, ensuring that we lead the development of best practice and develop a pipeline of profit improvement that drives bottom line performance, in conjunction with other stakeholders in the business.
Essential Criteria:
- Strong relationship builder and ability to develop trust.
- Effective communication skills which result in integrated involvement with the various stakeholders of the business.
- Effective influencing skills that enable financial expertise to be utilized
- Comfortable in a high change environment.
- Ability to identify, encourage and implement continuous improvement.
- Able to make sound decisions that are pragmatic and timely based on solid information and research in a timely manner.
- Tenacious in desire to implement effective and sustained improvement
- Qualified CIMA /ACC finalist or nearly qualified
- Previous experience within a chilled food manufacturing environment with good operational exposure.
- Clearly demonstrate the ability to add value.
- Excel Skills advance or intermediate.
Location:
The role will be based at our Solway Food’s site in Corby, employing 700 employees and producing Salads and Pasta Snacks for the UK’s leading supermarkets.
Package and further details:
- Competitive salary package, pension scheme.
- Generous 25 days holiday + statutory days.
- Various other benefits including car purchasing discount scheme, discounted hire car rates, childcare vouchers.
- Excellent opportunities for career development and progression.
It's the expertise of our people and their passion for what they do that makes the difference at Northern Foods. In return we expect commitment, motivation and a shared passion to produce the best tasting food to the highest quality and delivered on time to meet our customer’s needs.
Northern Foods are committed to equality of opportunity; all applicants will be judged solely on their merits. Northern Foods is not looking for assistance from recruitment agencies in relation to this vacancy and operates a strict preferred supplier list when we do, please visit our careers site for more details on how we work with recruitment suppliers.
