Position Title: Finance Business Partner - Manufacturing

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Position Location: Grantham

Requisition ID: 20774

There’s nothing beige about McCain…
Except our potatoes — and we’re extremely passionate about them.

When you join McCain, you’ll be joining the biggest player in the frozen potato game, bringing people together around the nation for over 60 years by sharing simple, delicious planet-friendly food.
We’ve partnered with thousands of the country’s supermarkets, pubs, restaurants, hospitals, and schools to change the way people see the humble spud. It’s all about elevation and creating something better.

So, come and make your career at McCain Foods.

Become more than just an ‘asset’ at McCain.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As Finance Business Partner – Manufacturing, it’d be your job to act as a strategic finance business partner to the manufacturing senior plant operations across our sites in Whittlesey, Grantham, and Wombourne, aswell as our regional Engineering leadership teams.

Reporting into the Director, Finance, you’ll work as part of a wider GB and Global team to provide financial support from; producing value adding routine reports and managing the quarterly forecast and annual budgeting process to generating ad hoc analysis as required to ensuring rigorous financial assessment on all manufacturing projects and capital spend. You’ll also…

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  Business partner, support and advise Plant Managers and Engineering team with the preparation and analysis of financial and management information for the plants
• Review, assess and report weekly on our risks and opportunities with actions required to mitigate risks
• Attend regular plant performance and review meetings and ad hoc meeting requests by the plant team
• Perform financial closing for the plants, provide analysis, input and explanations including interpretation and explanation of usages, costs and variances
• Preparation of periodical management reports and analysis at a plant level total delivered cost conclusions compared to annual standards and quarterly forecasts
• To review, assess and report weekly on our risks and opportunities by plant with actions required to mitigate risks
• To manage the plant manufacturing annual standard cost of goods process and quarterly forecast submissions
• To provide manufacturing support for validating and assessing capital investment, SCA or VSM initiatives
• Provide finance controls for the manufacturing processes and report exceptions to leadership team.
• Strategic capitals for the plant – Provide support to regional engineering / project managers with financial control and validate financial benefits expected from executing capital projects.

ABOUT YOU

You’ll already be an experienced Finance Business Partner working within FMCG (ideally manufacturing/supply chain). You’ll also have…

• Industry accountancy experience and a professional Accountancy Qualification
• Experience of working effectively with internal customers and stakeholders
• Project management and experience in investment evaluations
• Analyse and report on financial performance
• Experience of implementing effective financial controls
• Microsoft Office competence

WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?

Although we do encourage you to taste the goods you’ll be pleased to know we don’t pay you in chips. For working hard, you’ll also get a great salary and some pretty good benefits including:

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  An excellent pension where we will pay double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your pay
• Flexible holidays – where you can buy & sell up to 5 days holiday per year
• Achievable personal and business performance based bonus
• Private medical insurance scheme
• Optional health cash plan
• Cycle to work scheme
• ‘Chips In’ Volunteering Day Off - to make a positive impact to the competitiveness, resilience, and long-term development of McCain communities across the globe

And of course, being part of a Global business there are great opportunities to shine/thrive. We have an ambitious 5 year growth plan that presents development & progression opportunities for those who seek it out.

WHERE WILL I WORK?

We champion hybrid working here at McCain. you’ll travel to our plants across our region, in particular our Whittlesey and Grantham sites, so it would be advantageous if you were based within a relative commutable distance from Whittlesey or Grantham, aswell as working from home. Our head office (Customer Experience Centre) is on the outskirts of Scarborough where you’ll travel to from time to time to meet with your colleagues. We have lots of colleagues who travel to and from our Experience Centre (even if it is just for a good coffee!)

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

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Job Family: Finance
Division: Great Britain
Department: Commercial Accounts 1
Location(s): GB - United Kingdom : England : Whittlesey || GB - United Kingdom : England : Grantham || GB - United Kingdom : England : Hull || GB - United Kingdom : England : Peterborough || GB - United Kingdom : England : Scarborough || GB - United Kingdom : England : Wombourne || GB - United Kingdom : Other : Reference job description || GB - United Kingdom : Scotland : Montrose

Company: McCain Foods (G.B.) Ltd