Senior Business Partner - Procurement

We are CH&CO, we’re proud to take a more thoughtful, mindful approach to the food experiences we source, prepare and present. We are recruiting for a Senior Finance Business partner to work with us. This is a  key commercially driven role focused on providing effective analysis to support key business decisions. Developing and mentoring the junior team members to support the business requirements and business partnering with the Procurement team, as well as other senior stakeholders, to support with strategic decision making.

Key responsibilities and accountabilities:

• The role is commercially focused, supporting the Procurement team and providing analysis for various other senior stakeholders across the business
• The key to being successful in this role is adding value – working proactively to identify commercial opportunities across the different sectors of the business and supporting and challenging the Procurement team in their pricing strategy
• The role will take ownership of delivery of accurate monthly results and analysis for senior stakeholders, ensuring they reflect the current performance of the business and driving initiatives as required
• The role will take ownership of industry benchmarking, proactively identifying any risks and opportunities with an overarching view of the internal and external influences

You will:

• Ensure timely and accurate completion of monthly management accounts ensuring accuracy, integrity, consistency and providing clear variance analysis
• Take ownership of the completion of monthly review packs for the Board demonstrating clear variance to budget analysis
• Be forward thinking in your approach to all monthly analysis provided to ensure packs remain relevant
• Support the buying team with category tender analysis to optimise commercial opportunity
• Be responsible for benchmarking reporting and analysis – comparing pricing to the industry benchmarking body as well as to market inflation to proactively identify under and over performance
• Work with Head of Commercial Finance on ad-hoc analysis and presentation of areas key to business strategy in response to senior stakeholder requests
• Support on providing key bid information to sales team
• Ensure team are working proactively and effectively to meet key deadlines
• Maintain adequate balance sheet controls and governance

Our ideal candidate:

• CIMA, ACCA, ACA, CIPFA qualified, ideally with 3 years PQE
• Advanced excel skills
• Previous business partnering experience
• Influential and motivational leadership capability
• Experience of working in a fast-paced environment, with the ability to prioritise a changing workload and use initiative
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present complex financial information with an eye for detail
• High level of integrity with a commitment to embedding a strong governance culture
• A hardworking individual with lots of energy, who can deliver high quality work to tight reporting deadlines and demonstrate a desire to progress within the Company.
• Ability to produce concise and informative reporting under tight deadlines.

What's in it for you?

Working with CH&CO has its perks! People are at the heart of everything we do, so we've developed a range of benefits to keep you happy.

• Personal Development and Training opportunities
• Life assurance scheme
• Pension scheme
• Competitive holiday allowance
• Private medical eligibility
• Eye care
• A great wellbeing strategy – including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, salary finance
• Family friendly support
• Regular social events and communication with our leaders
• A holiday purchase scheme
• Volunteering days
• Professional subscriptions
• Recognition schemes and people awards
• Long service awards
• Access to some great high street discount vouchers
• Cycle to work scheme

Inquisitive, Inclusive, Uplifting