Labour Analyst Blackpool, England
Job description
Who are we ?
We are FBC, Fox's Burton's Companies! ……-And we bake the UK's most incredible biscuits (we might be slightly biased, but we will leave that for you to judge).
FBC was a match made in heaven, with two of the top UK biscuits manufacturers (Burton's Biscuits and Fox's Biscuits) coming together to create one unique, integrated company.
We are home to famous iconic brands, including Maryland, Fox's, Jammie Dodger & Rocky, to name just a few. We bake our incredible biscuits at eight bakeries across the UK, located at Ilse of Arran, Livingston, Blackpool, Llantarnam, Edinburgh, Kirkham, Batley & Dorset. We also have offices for our supporting services in St Albans, Liverpool and Moreton. Together, we employ circa 4,000 amazing employees across all our locations.
We are currently the second biscuit manufacturer in the UK market with a strong ambition of becoming the number two biscuit manufacturer worldwide.
We are proud to be part of the Ferrero enlarged family: such a fantastic and successful business. The Ferrero Group operates in more than 50 countries, with products sold in over 170 countries, represented by almost 38.000 employees worldwide, and a consolidated turnover of €12.7 billion (2020-21).
Along with our fantastic brand portfolio, we also have long-term agreements to manufacture several sweet & savoury snacks across Mars, Jacobs, and LU branded products. In addition, we are proud to be a strategic partner for many retailer-branded products.
Our employees make our business special. With strong family values, we believe FBC is a more prosperous and fun place to work with when people feel free to be themselves. We believe in the power of being authentic, entrepreneurial and supporting each whilst meeting our business goals.
And don't forget… work hard but play harder!
What does your typical day look like?
You will be responsible for the prompt and efficient tracking of; absence, movers to ensure the accuracy of the attendance data in readiness for payroll completion. The role contributes to the execution of payroll and HR administration services in the UK, in compliance with legal requirements and Group policies.
Other key actions will be but not limited to:
- Microsoft Office Skills (Word, Excel etc.)
- Organisational Skills.
- Ability to demonstrate strong commercial acumen, negotiating and influencing skills.
- Above average verbal and numeric reasoning skills.
- An engaging and credible personality with an awareness of the importance of influencing internally and externally.
What are the key ingredients needed for the role?
ADMINISTRATION
- Effective administration and reporting of labour within the Plant production functions, reporting to key stakeholders
- Manages work attendance reporting (absence & sickness, overtime, vacations, leavers, etc.) ensuring accuracy to produce payroll upload.
- Contributes to internal and external audits in a timely manner when required.
- Assisting with key stakeholders with ad hoc activity and reporting requirements.
- Management of new starter system access.
- Coordinate agency timesheet reporting to ensure accuracy of payments.
- Reporting to the AG Performance Analyser within the plant.
WORKFORCE READY DATA MANAGEMENT
- Collects and ensures timely and appropriate data management on WORKFORCE READY for Cost Centre (CDC)and attendance types etc.
- Promptly and accurately resolves time exceptions for the factory-based colleagues daily.
- Proactively provide opportunities to the time management and payroll analyst for system optimisation and efficiencies.
- Work Closely with Payroll and T&A for system changes and upgrades.
REPORTING AND ANALYSIS
- Provides reports and analysis about Colleague attendance and payroll information.
- Support the key stakeholders to monitor and analyse forecasted hours vs. actual ones to enable broader analysis.
- Weekly reporting to payroll team issues and anomalies.
- Effective planning and reporting of labour, within the plant production functions, ensuring the data for each function is accurate for payroll review.
- Updating daily absence reports for internal management information.
- Generate reports (hours reports)/ highlight risk hours/ pp situation.
- Continuous improvement and recommending system changes.
COMMUNICATION
- Work together with RTO to elaborate reports to apply correct decisions for shifts.
- Contributes to proper communication of processes and touchpoints, cascading through the line managers to the teams.
- Continually working with managers to ensure efficiency of time and attendance process and providing training/support where required.
- Reporting and resolving (where possible) issues with the clocking in machine.
- Communication with the HR team regarding departmental moves to ensure accurate cost centre and reporting line allocation.
If you are ready to begin a career with real bite, we would love to hear from you so apply now by clicking the link below.
