Finance Analyst

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a world leading Food Organisation. Upfield is currently seeking a Finance Analyst based at Leatherhead (moving to Wimbledon later in the year). This is a full-time, temporary role for a period of 12 months, Monday to Friday, 36.25 hours per week, to start ASAP. The role is paying between £35K and £45K per annum, pro rata, depending on experience.

Company Information:

Upfield has recently purchased the baking, cooking and spreads division from global FMCG giant Unilever UK on 2nd July 2018. As a result of this, Upfield are currently based onsite at Unilever, at their UK HQ in Leatherhead. In 2019, Upfield will be relocating to brand new offices in Wimbledon.

Your Main Responsibilities: -

Support Performance Management across the Business Unit

• Lead the weekly performance management rhythm and reporting into Global Upfield.
• Design, own and maintain reporting decks, across the 8 countries within our business unit. Using data from a variety of sources and using tools such as Excel andPowerpoint to develop regularly updated outputs. This includes:
  • Weekly sales tracking.
  • Market and P&L Reviews versus FC.
  • Operational Cash Flow.
• Driving standardization across the 8 countries in the business unit, allowing us to compare different country dynamics and performance consistently.
• Ad hoc analysis to understand key variances, with deep dives into problem areas.

Planning & Forecasting

• Lead the "engine room" of cyclical planning, both long term strategic planning and shorter-term operation planning. This will involve:
  • Defining data collection requirements to satisfy business unit and global requirements.
  • Providing collection and consolidation tools for country teams to feed into.
  • Defining reporting and presentational outputs from consolidation tools.,
  • Managing stakeholders on setting of, and delivery to strict deadlines.

Separation Project

• Upfield currently has several business activities continued to be fulfilled by Unilever, under atransitionary agreement as part of the sale, including finance systems. From the start of 2019, a project will begin to fully separate, withUpfield moving to managing any such activities itself. This role will require:
  • Business Unit Lead in activities surrounding ERP systems.
  • The person on the ground to design and implement defined systems and processes.
• Lead user acceptance testing for our Business Unit.

Skills, experience and qualifications: -

Business skills

• Experience in working in a finance environment.
• Proven in finance-based IT, with Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Ideal for somebody at the start of, or studying for a Professional Accounting qualification.
• Proven ability to work with multiple stakeholders, able manage upwards as a "team expert".

Personal skills

• Strong influencing and communication skills
• Delivery-focused with a high degree of ownership
• Must be willing to get their hands dirty in all stream due to the lean team
• Collaborative and team-oriented mindset
• Drive, energy and passion for developing business and financial processes and capabilities