Culina Group is a leading UK 3rd party food & drinks logistics provider offering dedicated and shared user warehousing and distribution solutions.
At Culina we have a winning culture, we believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive… A place where you're valued, challenged, and inspired!
Job DescriptionWe have a brand new opportunity to join our team as a Finance Business Partner - Group Projects. This role supports the Group functions, operational and commercial teams by providing clear analysis and insights on group wide projects and initiatives, developing business cases for projects where required. The successful candidate will partner with the Group and BU finance teams to ensure that relevant information from group wide projects and initiatives is shared and understood, supporting the BUs to embed initiatives into budgets and forecasts, where required.
Key responsibilities of the Finance Business Partner - Group Projects:
- Works with Group operational stakeholders to build portfolio of information
- Produce business cases and ad-hoc analysis as required
- Understand stakeholder objectives and priorities to builds their objectives accordingly
- Build standard reports for key areas to provide transparency of performance to the Exec and senior teams
- Supports the commercial decision-making process by developing guidelines and templates
- Supports BUs to deliver group wide projects
- Supports the strategic financial planning process by bringing transparency of the financial impacts of group wide initiatives
- Ensures that short term budgets and forecasts are aligned with financial targets defined by group wide projects and initiatives
- Communicates expectations from BUs clearly and on a timely basis to ensure alignment on group-wide initiatives and projects
- Gathers information from a wide range of sources to support stakeholder decision making
Technical Skills;
- Qualified Accountant (ACCA/ACMA) with 3 years PQE
- Experience utilising data analysis skills
- Experience of business case and scenario analysis
- Strong Excel skills
- Good presentation skills
Relevant Experience;
- Evidence of industry working with senior members of the Executive team.
- Experience of commercial projects an advantage
- Experience of finance business partnering essential
As part of our drive to make Culina Group a great place to work. We are proud to be an inclusive and diverse organisation where we are committed to employee development and recognising success for hard working performers.
Our dedicated learning and development programmes are open to every employee to give you the opportunity to shape your own future within logistics and continue to work in an environment where team culture thrives.
Our People are the driving force behind our success, which is why we offer a wide range of benefits which include:
- Annual Leave – Competitive holiday entitlement of 25 days plus 8 Bank Holidays
- Company Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When we achieve our goals you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme
- Private Medical Cover – This gives you peace of mind, you have choice, flexibility and speed of access to the most clinically appropriate care via Bupa
- Pension scheme – we want colleagues to enjoy a comfortable retirement so we offer a great contribution of 5% employee and 8% employer
- Life Assurance - x4 your annual salary
- Wellness – Via our Employee Assistance Programme we offer immediate access to a confidential telephone counselling and legal information service that operates 24 hours a days, 365 days a year
- Eye Care Vouchers – We can provide you with substantial savings with free eye tests and discounts on prescription glasses
- Reward & Recognition – We recognise that employees have gone the extra mile via Employee of the month and year, special recognition and long service awards.
- Everyday discounts - via our benefit platform you will have access to over 50 retailer discounts for everyday savings!
If you meet the requirements for the above role and are looking for your next career opportunity please apply now and become a part of our #WinningTeam!
Skills Required
- Qualified Accountant (ACCA/ACMA) with 3 years PQE
- Experience utilising data analysis skills
- Experience of business case and scenario analysis
- Strong Excel skills
- Good presentation skills
- Experience of finance business partnering
- Evidence of working with senior members of the Executive team
- Experience of commercial projects
What We Do
Culina Group is a market leading provider of high quality logistics services for food and drink companies in the UK and Ireland. We serve a sizeable portfolio of customers - ranging from niche operators to major multinational companies - across our vast depot network, comprised of over 100 strategically located sites. We work with over 22,000 fantastic people at peak and specialise in the development and implementation of total supply chain solutions for ambient and chilled brand manufacturers and distributors. We are totally customer focused and always seek to add real value to our clients, providing a holistic solution to meet the challenges faced by manufacturers and the changing demands of the retail sector.
