finance manager United Kingdom
Job description
As we continue our mission to make people happy through chocolate, we’re looking for a Finance Manager to join our Finance team on a permanent basis.
Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager, and partnering with the Manufacturing Operations teams, you will ensure the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of all financial transactions and reporting relating to Hotel Chocolat’s manufacturing function.
As well as a competitive salary and a range of company benefits, you’ll receive 50% discount on all products, and a 70% discount for you and your guests when you stay at our Rabot Estate hideaway on the paradise island of Saint Lucia.
Here at Hotel Chocolat, we've adopted hybrid working. This means you’ll join us on site for three days a week (typically Tuesday to Thursday), and for the other two days – you can work from wherever you like! The on-site locations for this role are split between our two sites in Huntingdon and St Neots in Cambridgeshire.
What you’ll be doing….
- Reporting and investigating on production variances to standard, including reporting and variance analysis to budgets and Prior Year.
- Overheads-Ownership of manufacturing-based cost centres, including reporting and variance analysis to budgets and Prior Year.
- Month end preparation and post journals and Balance sheet reconciliations.
- Preparing Yearly Budgets and rolling forecasts.
- Reporting on Tactical Capex Projects, including ROI.
- Developing strong business partnering relationships with the Operations team to enhance insight and challenge/support the business on operational KPIs.
- Developing and maintaining the financial control and reporting of standard costing processes with the team.
- Collaborating with all manufacturing functions to analyse costings/cost saving initiatives.
- Driving process and system improvements for stock and standard costing.
- Supporting with auditor queries as part of the year end audit.
Who you are…
A qualified Accountant or working towards CIMA qualification. You’re a great communicator, able to interact at all levels across the business successfully, leading pro-actively and communicating change as it happens. You see the detail and can work with and analyse high volumes of data easily and then summarise key messages for business to make decisions with. Organised and capable, you can work on multiple tasks simultaneously.
Essential
- Strong relevant systems knowledge and a keen eye for improving processes and controls.
- Advanced Excel skills.
Desirable
- Food Manufacturing Experience (not essential).
Who are we?
We’re one of the UK’s favourite premium chocolate brands, with a range of products spanning luxury gifts, alcohol and our pioneering drinking chocolate system, the Velvetiser™.
A cacao pod takes years to grow – it can’t be rushed if it’s going to be just right for our products. The same can be said for Hotel Chocolat, which originally started as a mint production company before we realised it was luxury chocolate that we were really passionate about.
Now, we’re market leaders in the industry. What began as an online-only business grew to over 100 stores across the UK, and we’re still growing… Today, we’re multi-category, multi-channel, and multi-territory, and our customers, colleagues, cacao farmers and suppliers all benefit from the success we make together.
To learn more about us and read about our People Pledge – our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion – click here: hotelchocolat.com/uk/engaged-ethics/our-people.html
