Finance Business Partner

  • Full-time

Company Description

We are Fowler Welch – a multi award winning supply chain specialist working with retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers across the UK. We live by a simple set of values: to delight our customers, maximise our efficiency, be socially responsible and to promote being an employer of choice.

Job Description

To provide analytical support and business partnering to the Operational sites to help plan, understand and improve the financial performance.  To assist the Finance Reporting Manager in identifying areas of improvement, from both a revenue and efficiency viewpoint. Producing the management accounts and commentary for key areas of the business. Owning allocated balance sheet reconciliations.

Shift: Monday to Friday

Main Responsibilities:

Planning

  • Support and deliver the three-year Plan and annual budgeting /forecasting cycle
  • Maintain the rolling forecast to support profit and loss, balance sheet & cash flow analysis

Insight, analysis, and reporting

  • Advise stakeholders on KPI’s and performance to enable delivery of plan and to review and challenge efficiency & drive margin improvement
  • Owning the accounting for designated cost centres, nominal codes or balance sheet codes
  • Provide commercial analysis and insight to operational management.
  • Development and ownership of forecasting models
  •  Assisting and supplying information to auditors for annual audit

Business Partnering

  • Provide business partnering support to the Operational Management Team
  • Support the development of a management financial capability across the operation
  • Establish a working relationship with all key internal senior management teams as a basis for influencing change.
  • Prepare budgets and forecasts for relevant business units
  • Assist the Finance Reporting Manager in delivery of wider team objectives

Qualifications

  • Part Qualified Accountant is highly desirable
  • Relevant experience working in a commercial or finance function in an operational industry
  • Previous business partnering experience
  • Experience in analysing / trending data to make recommendations for change / challenge the business
  • Strong knowledge of accounting regulations, procedures and current legislation
  • Experienced in using Excel with the ability to create and develop spreadsheets using functions (pivot tables, lookups etc.) or macros to automate and improve reporting
  • Experience of presenting and interpreting key information
  • Experience within FMCG environment (distribution or manufacturing) is advantageous
  • Experience of transport and warehouse processes and systems is desirable
  • Project management experience
  • Budget and forecasting
  • Operational reporting

Additional Information

In return, we offer: 

  • Free Fowler Welch Healthcare Cash Plan
  • Free life insurance as a Fowler Welch employee equal to three times your basic salary.
  • Competitive pension scheme
  • ‘Cycle 2 Work’ Scheme – save up to 42% on the cost of a new bike and necessary equipment.
  • Recognition schemes for our exceptional employees – monthly winners receive £100 of shopping vouchers.

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