Commercial Finance Manager

We thrive on challenge and change. We rise to challenges together.

Location: Flexible within the UK – ideally London

Contract Type: Interim or Fixed Term Contract

Business Area: Bakkavor Ltd

Salary: Competitive - on either a day rate or salaried basis

Why join us?

We’re proud to offer you a career with options to explore and pursue. Where you’ll be supported to work hard, push further and show resilience. As a valued Commercial Finance Manager, we’ll support your ambition, reward your resilience, and encourage you to rise to challenges and create a career you can be proud of too.

What we do

We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry - supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose.

Job Purpose

In this busy and exciting interim role – you will lead the Commercial Finance Business Partnering relationship with a designated sector and act as the key conduit between all senior stakeholders across the matrix.

Providing a financial conscience for all major commercial decisions and ensuring all relevant analysis is available to inform these decisions, will be top of your agenda.

Working in tandem with key stakeholders, you will support the smooth transition of activity into the commercial finance insights team – ensuring that information / analysis provided is robust, timely, driving value, and supporting of constructive feedback.

Skills & Experience:

Ideally, you will be post qualified (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) and come from a Senior Commercial Finance background with a clear understanding of core commercial principles, controls and vision of what good looks like.

Strong commercial acumen, a firm understanding of dynamics impacting the market, evidenced examples of leading tender processes, driving margin improvement plans and influencing commercial decision making – is essential.

You will be clear and articulate communicator with strong leadership skills and ability to influence using a variety of techniques and affect positive change.

If you are energetic, punctual, proactive and reliable with the ability to lead, guide, and motivate others towards achievement – this could be the role for you.

Proud to be Bakkavor

We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose.

We’re driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!