At Valeo Foods UK we bring together a family of much-loved UK food brands supported by the scale and ambition of a global investment partner. From Kettle’s bold crunch to Rowse’s natural sweetness, through to Matthew Walker and Barratt Sweets, our portfolio blends heritage, craft and category-leading innovation.
Alongside our branded portfolio, we are also one of the UK’s largest suppliers of private label products, partnering with major retailers to deliver quality and category expertise that meets the needs of millions of households every week.
As a business, we’re on a journey of transformation. We’re strengthening our operations, driving quality and investing in our people. It’s an exciting, fast-moving environment where heritage meets new thinking, and where every colleague contributes to shaping the future of food across the UK.
Join us and play your part in building the next chapter of some of Britain’s most loved brands.
Job DescriptionFinancial Reporting & Control Analyst
Remote (with travel to UK Valeo sites)
Join Valeo Foods as a Financial Reporting & Control Analyst and play a central role in shaping commercial decision‑making across a fast‑moving, growth‑focused business. You’ll work closely with Sales and key operational teams to turn data into insight, challenge assumptions, and influence decisions that drive profitable performance.
This is a high‑visibility role ideal for a commercially minded finance professional who enjoys partnering with stakeholders, improving processes, and translating numbers into meaningful actions.
Key Accountabilities:
Commercial Finance Partnering
- Lead analysis across revenue, pricing, and margin performance, helping the business understand what’s driving results.
- Support the NPD process, ensuring financial implications of innovation proposals are fully understood.
- Work with the Demand Planning team to test assumptions and translate demand plans into financial outcomes.
- Provide ad‑hoc commercial insight to the Head of Commercial Finance, Senior Finance Business Partners, and Sales leadership.
- Support the weekly sales cycle, ensuring accurate reporting and clear commentary.
- Review forecasts, highlight variances, and help teams understand risks, opportunities, and required actions.
- Partner with Sales to build budgets and long‑term plans aligned to strategic priorities.
Financial Performance & Reporting
- Review month‑end performance to ensure accuracy and clarity in reported numbers.
- Deliver insightful variance analysis against budget, forecast, and prior periods.
- Support timely month‑end reporting, including product margin analysis and trade investment KPIs.
- Lead monthly balance sheet reviews with Sales to ensure robust accruals and no year‑end surprises.
- ACCA or CIMA part‑qualified or fully qualified, with a strong commitment to ongoing professional development.
- Excellent financial analytics capability, with the confidence to present complex issues clearly to non‑financial stakeholders.
- High IT literacy, including experience with ERP systems and planning modules.
- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, with the ability to build clear, compelling reports and models.
- Strong interpersonal and influencing skills, able to build trust and challenge constructively.
- A structured, organised approach, capable of managing day‑to‑day tasks alongside longer‑term improvement projects.
- A commercial, curious mindset, always looking to interrogate data and understand the story behind the numbers.
- Exceptional attention to detail, combined with a willingness to be hands‑on and dive into the detail when needed.
What we offer you in return
- Working Monday to Friday
- Excellent Career Opportunities
- Matched pension scheme up to 10%
- Death in service
- Cycle to work scheme
- And plenty more!
Top Skills
What We Do
We are a leading producer and innovator of high quality, category-defining branded food products that have a proud history that dates back to 1845. At Valeo Foods, we are passionate about food and our portfolio of over 20 iconic food brands, which includes Jacobs, Batchelors, Kettle, Rowse Honey, Balconi, Schluckwerder, are tried and trusted by consumers across Ireland, UK and Europe for their quality, wholesomeness, nutrition and fun. We are a diverse business that combines food production, brand development and innovation, distribution and sales. We are Ireland’s largest ambient food supplier to the grocery trade, a major supplier to the food service market through Valeo Professional, and an increasingly prominent supplier to the UK market and a range of European Markets now. We are focused on the continued development of our excellent portfolio of category defining food brands as we look to expand our footprint across Ireland, UK, Europe and beyond with our latest acquisition in North America. We are committed to delivering quality food products through continued innovation and excellence in manufacturing. This commitment ensures that our brands retain a market leading position in each of their respective categories. We continue to recruit people with the best skills and expertise across a range of areas including manufacturing, food science, research and development, nutrition, distribution, sales, operations, marketing, human resources and finance, and aspire to be a best in class employer, focused on developing and empowering our people.
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