Finance Business Partner - Natural & Stirred Yoghurt

Yeo Valley Production aims to Nurture & Nourish, People & Planet by Making Great Food the Right Way. Forever.

Yoghurt remains at the core of Yeo Valley’s strategy, with consistent volume growth over the last few years. We’re ambitious to continue growing and are investing significantly to deliver it sustainably. This influential role is a real opportunity to help drive performance and synergies across our yoghurt sites and supply chain this year and in future years.

Working as a member of the site leadership teams you will play a key role as an independent, critical friend in service of great evidence-based decision making. You will be responsible for providing great insight into all aspects of site performance including sustainability, quality, service and cost. You will help identify opportunities for enhanced performance and you will be instrumental in translating these insights into solutions and implementation.

You partner the sites, using your influencing skills to ensure that the priorities of the teams are the right ones, that recommendations are based on robust and appropriate data, and that decisions consider our Co-Owners and are implemented effectively.

You will work collaboratively and flexibly within cross-functional teams across the business on start-stop initiatives as required to meet immediate business needs. This will include data analysis, economic evaluation of asset investments, and the development of costing models to enable great decision making in support of growth across our brand and own-label portfolios.

The role will require an on-site presence at Cannington and Highbridge with occasional travel to other sites (remote working supported when required).

Essential:

• Qualified accountant (CIMA or ACA or equiv.)
• Strong excel skills
• Understanding of Standard Costing
• Comfortable analysing and assessing data to draw insights, assess performance and identify required interventions
• Excellent communication and influencing skills at all levels of the business

Desirable:

• Experience with Dynamics AX, BI, IFS
• Experience with Power pivot & power BI
• Experience within food sector
• Experience within the Manufacturing sector and ideally of multi-site FMCG companies

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 1700 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
• 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
• annual bonus (as part of the Employee Benefit Trust, based on company performance for the year)
• 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.