Regional Finance Manager - Manchester, UK&I

Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you.

As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.

To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact

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What will this role achieve?

This role will be key to providing crucial financial decision support and performance reporting to the Site Leadership at Manchester.

The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring that the financial accounting and control requirements of a manufacturing site are met on an accurate and timely basis. The role includes considerable business partner interaction and involves developing Cost Centre Managers' financial awareness, managing the site capital investment process, facilitating the management team in controlling and forecasting the cost base. The role has a seat on the Site Leadership Team and directly reports into the UKI Supply Chain Financial Controller.

What will be your key deliverables?

Ensuring that decisions, plans and strategies are formulated on a sound commercial and financial basis

Reviewing and reporting performance against agreed budgets and forecasts and driving the formulation of meaningful action plans to meet those objectives

Ensuring compliance with statutory and group accounting procedures, highlighting areas of concern as appropriate and taking corrective action

Leading the Financial control of the site investment program

Financial Leadership of the site and being an active part of the Site Leadership team

Managing and developing the site finance team

Mentoring the Site operational team on financial matters

Supporting the other site finance roles as and when required

pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.

We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List. If you are a recruitment agency and wish to submit candidate to be considered for this vacancy, you must have agreed to, and signed, our terms of business.

We will not accept CVs from any other sources other than those currently on our PSL. We will not pay a fee for any candidate that has not been represented by a provider on our PSL.

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