Finance Business Partner

We are currently looking to recruit a Finance Business Partner to join our UK Production Finance team, and aligned to our site in Westbury. Westbury is one of our larger sites and has both milk balancing capability but also a Butter production facility where we produce our Anchor brand. The site is under-going large investment and so this is a really exiting time to part of the leadership team of this site. You will report to the Senior Finance Business Partner for UK Production and be part of a team of highly skilled finance professionals. You will also be part of the Site leadership team and have involvement in business planning and setting the long term strategic plan for the site.

This role is on a fixed term 24 month contract but there could be scope to extend in the future.

How will you make an impact?

* Working collaboratively operations and Site Director to driving the continuous improvement (ONE CI) pipeline generation and maturation

* Co driving the more holistic site performance across our performance metrics, contributing to agendas outside of finance through insights and experience

* Owner of financial forecast process, engaging the site team to ensure site ownership of the numbers and actively working on securing a high degree of forecast accuracy

* Accountable for securing accurate product costings, and also ensuring that the site achieves an EBIT as close to net zero as possible

* Sign off of all financial business cases related to the site including CAPEX & ONE CI

* Accountable for signing off the financial statements (P&L and Balance Sheet), inc securing year end stock counts

What do you need to succeed?

The successful candidate will ideally have experience of working in a finance position within a supply chain environment. They must have the ability to interpret complex financial information and have a structure approach to problem solving.

With excellent communication and organisation skills, you will be able to build strong relationships across many different. An analytical thinker who takes a proactive approach. Finally you will be a proficient user of all Office Applications and will have advanced Excel skills. Knowledge and experience of working with SAP would also be an advantage.

What do we offer?

* Competitive salary (salary discussed at application stage)

* Bonus between 10-20%

* BUPA Healthcare

* 26 days holiday & Bank Holidays

* Hybrid & Flexible working

* Pension contribution matched up to 6%

* 4 x annual salary life assurance

* Free to use onsite Gym

* Access to discounted products in our Staff Shop

* People agenda commitment to training and development (internal & external)

* Flexible Benefits- buy up to 5 days annual leave, reward gateway scheme- discounts with various retailers via my benefit platform.

* Most importantly - Cheese hamper at Christmas

* Part-time hours considered (4 days per week)

Please note we are not partnered with any recruitment agencies for this role. We kindly ask that recruitment agencies do not submit CVs on behalf of candidates for this role, as these CVs will not be considered under the agency ownership and if Arla does progress with any such candidate, this will not amount to acceptance of the agency's terms. We encourage interested individuals to apply directly through our official channels