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Job Description
Regional Finance Manager Midlands - Wholesale Division
POSITION TITLE: Regional Finance Manager - Wholesale Markets Midlands
LOCATION: Home based with regular travel to branches
REPORTS TO: Head of Finance - Wholesale Markets
ABOUT THE ROLE
Responsibility for management accounting, forecasting, commercial analysis, and decision support relating to the
Dole Wholesale Markets branches within the region.
Working closely with the Branch Managers, Regional Directors, and Head of Finance to maximise the commercial
opportunities and identify risks and opportunities within the region.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- 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:
- Weekly, Monthly, and quarterly forecasts
- Annual budgets
- Variance analysis
- KPI's
- Ad-hoc analysis to drive business performance
- 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
- Review of 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
- Working in accordance with SOX internal control framework to minimise risk and ensure transparency
- Ensure that all company policies and statutory requirements are adhered to
- Liaise with internal and external auditors
- Ensuring tasks are evidenced and saved in accordance with delegation of authority matrix in timely manner
- Ensure segregation of duties within branches are aligned with control framework
- Multi-site experience within the fresh produce industry
- Management accounting in an FMCG manufacturing environment
- Comfortable being the only Finance person within the region
- Flexible team player who can help change behaviour both by compelling nature of analysis and by working closely with colleagues to drive improvements
- Demonstrates a sense of personal ownership, is results driven and has a 'can do' attitude
- Enthusiasm and tenacity to strive for continuous improvement
- Able to adapt quickly in changing environments
- Prioritise and effectively manage time and work under pressure to tight deadlines
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills, able to build relationships across all levels of the business
- Experience of influencing non-Finance colleagues
- Demonstrable experience of process improvement and stakeholder management
- Ability to use own initiative and to adapt to changes in the industry
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
- Qualified Accountant, ideally CIMA