Regional Finance Manager – SW Location

Bristol

£60K + Car Allowance + 10%Bonus

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Finance Manager

Fresh People are currently looking to recruit a Regional Finance Manager for a Fresh Produce Wholesale business who will be responsible for management accounting, forecasting, commercial analysis, and decision support relating to Wholesale Markets branches within the SW Region covering Bristol, Cardiff and Southampton, this role will be hybrid working visiting all 3 sites every week and the remainder of time you will be working from home. Working with Branch Managers Regional Directors, and Head of Finance to maximise the commercial opportunities and identify risks

The Person

Suitable candidates will ideally be CIMA qualified however would consider QBE,  have worked within Fresh produce , Food Manufacturing or FMCG , previously worked as a management accountant in a FMCG environment , a flexible team player results driven with a ‘can do’ attitude, striving for continuous improvement, with the ability to adapt quickly in changing environments. Ability to build relationships across all levels of the business cross functionally , comfortable with role autonomy as will be the only Finance person within the region reporting to Head of Finance preferably with multi-site experience

The Role

Proactive Finance Business Partner providing support, challenge and insight to the Branch Managers and Regional Directors

  • To deliver timely, accurate & relevant financial information & analysis to key stakeholders including Monthly and quarterly forecasts Annual budgets Variance analysis, KPI’s
  • Identifying risks and opportunities to enable delivery of the targets
  • Develop, rigorously challenge, and question the budget/forecast assumptions and KPIs
  • Provision of the Monthly Review Packs and participation in the Monthly Branch Review Meeting
  • Identify and explain business performance variances and recommendations for improvements
  • Consignment reconciliation, analysis, and challenge
  • Margin management through analysis and challenge
  • Develop and understand distribution cost reporting & KPI’s
  • Benchmarking performance across locations
  • Monitor new business performance and profitability
  • Monthly accruals, prepayments, and balance sheet reconciliations
  • Attend monthly stock takes
  • Maintain strong financial controls across all areas
  • Support the Head of Finance as required through analysis and project activity
  • Managing compliance to minimize risk and ensure transparency inline with company policies and statutory requirements
  • Liaise with internal and external auditors

If you have minimum of 2 years Finance Management experience within a similar role then we would like to hear from you today , if you want to be based from home and work a hybrid model then this role could be just what you are looking for reach out today for more details

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Ruth Counsell

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