Performance Reporting Project Manager - 9 Month FTC

At Yeo Valley, we're more than just an organic dairy company - we're a community rooted in the land, committed to sustainability, and passionate about producing quality food that nurtures people and planet. As a family-run business, we believe in doing things the right way - sustainably, ethically, and with people at the heart of what we do. Yeo Valley has recently transitioned to a new ERP system whilst growing significantly in recent years. There are therefore a number of internal finance projects that need completing to ensure effective performance management systems are in place with clear ownership and accountability.

Key Responsibilities

• To support the Head of Finance in finance project delivery
• To streamline consolidated monthly performance reporting and understanding the individual entity reporting
• Lead financial process improvements to ensure new ERP system efficiencies are maximised
• Be responsible for cash forecasting short and long term identifying cash risks and opportunities and work with wider business stakeholders to deliver on these
• Work closely with the finance business partners and the business to ensure weekly and monthly reporting continue to align to our strategic priorities and drive the right decisions and behaviours.
• To also drive efficiencies into our reporting and forecasting process so as much as possible is centralised and completed consistently across the business.
• Consolidating the Strategic and Operational KPI reporting including all financial and non-financial metrics and working with wider business stakeholders to understand the implications of the reports and associated actions required
• Organise, co-ordinate and run the annual budget and half yearly forecast process engaging with key business stakeholders highlighting and escalating the impact of changes during the process
• Co-ordinate the annual refresh of the outer year forecast, liaising with the business owners to ensure understanding of the impact of their assumptions
• Support the improvement into the impact reporting as we transition into the next 5 year plan
• Support the improvement of the monthly rolling forecast process to provide a robust 18 month forecast, providing first level commentary on the cause of movements and risks and opportunities to the forecast.
• Develop and embed capital project reporting within the monthly reporting process
• Provide business partnering support to select Central Departments, as they transition to becoming self sufficient with a majority of their financial needs

Essential

• ACA/CIMA/ACCA qualified
• Excellent communication skills at all levels
• Experience of working within a fast-paced team environment in a finance environment
• IT literate with demonstrable Microsoft Office skills, skilled in Excel
• Able to work flexible hours as required by the role

Desirable:

• Experience of FMCG manufacturing
• Project management
• Experience with Power BI, IFS and multiple EPR systems

We’re independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1800 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yogurt. We’re sure you don’t need convincing, but there’s a whole host of benefits that we offer including: competitive holiday allowance annual bonus (as part of the Employee Benefit Trust, based on company performance for the year) non-contributory pension scheme life cover healthcare cash back plan cycle to work scheme subsidised Yeo Valley products and services preferential rates with our partners learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow

Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can. So, we recommend you get your application in straight away - and don’t miss the opportunity to join us! Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time. Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.