Nomad Foods Europe is the market leading Branded frozen food company in Europe, encompassing Birdseye (UK & Ireland), Findus (Italy, France, Spain & Scandinavia), Iglo (rest of Continental Europe), Goodfellas (UK & Ireland) and Aunt Bessie’s.  Approximately 75% of Products are manufactured across a network of thirteen manufacturing sites with the remaining products produced by a network of 3^rd party Copackers.

Nomad operates a centralised Supply Chain model with the Leadership Team and the Procurement team being based in Woking.

The Supply Chain Finance team is part of the Finance function and acting as business partners to the Operations Team.

The job holder will need to develop a thorough understanding of the factories and planning operations, both from a financial perspective and operationally.  To do this they will need to establish excellent working relationships with senior management in the Finance support centre, factories and marketing units.

• The key responsibility of the role is to deliver timely and accurate financial reporting, analysis, insight and control of Supply Chain actual performance and forecasts. This includes the factory P&L’s, savings projects delivery, bonus metric reporting and factory conversion cost per tonne
• The role is the key administrator of the BPC system used to report Nomad Factory performance
• The role is also responsible for accurate and timely consolidation of actual and forecast expenditure on capital investments, as well as being administrator of the sign-off process for individual capital requests
• The role with manage the capex approval system go to contact for all factories relating to this. The role will also manage the actuals & LV reporting to group & working closely with Group Engineering
• The role also supports the Supply Chain Finance Manager on key elements of the end-to-end Standard COGs process including variance analysis and transfer price review and setting
• Total COGS for Nomad Foods Europe is in the region of €1.6bn

Monthly Reporting / Forecasts

• Consolidation of factory results and preparation of weekly and monthly reports
• Database owner / administrator for BPC reporting system
• Preparation for and attendance of the monthly results calls, challenging and understanding of key drivers to performance
• Analysis of factory conversion cost per tonne performance and analysis of drivers of variances to target
• Consolidation and understanding of monthly Factory latest view forecast
• Consolidation, reporting and analysis of the project saving trackers (cost reduction projects)
• Ensuring that monthly Supply Chain Finance SoX controls are performance in line with RACM

Capital Expenditure

• Administration of the end-to-end capex process within NFE
• Owner of the capex approval system, ensuring its up to date & providing support to the factories
• Consolidation of monthly capital expenditure and reconciliation to Financial accounts highlighting any variances to plan
• Consolidation of the LV, challenging factories on over & underspend in the actuals & LV

Budget:

• Assist in all aspects of the Supply Chain annual plan process as required, e.g. preparation and analysis of volume/transfer price files, factory budget booklets.
• Co-ordinate, collect, analyse and challenge the annual Standards in close co-operation with Factory Finance and Procurement Finance

Supply Chain projects budget control:

• On a monthly basis consolidate and analyse spend vs budget for multiple Supply Chain projects, reporting and explaining variances to plan
• Prepare monthly variance report to be issued to Chief Supply Officer and Supply Chain Finance Director
  

Other:

• Preparation and control of the NFE Insurance budget business partnering with the NFE Head of Insurance
• Business partnering all NFE factory finance teams
• Development and improvement of Factory reporting
• Involvement in projects as required

Essential

• Strong analytical and business process skills
• Advanced Excel
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Management Reporting and Financial Analysis (variance analysis and interpretation)
• Strong planning and organisational skills
• Able to reprioritise to meet changing stakeholder needs. Take responsibility for quality and completeness of own work and on-time delivery.
• Focussed on meeting deadlines and commitments to others. Always looking to improve performance and make processes more efficient.
• Actively look to improve service through seeking out the root cause rather than just dealing with the symptoms “the so what”
• Able to challenge, understand and communicate to different stakeholder groups in a clear way
• Pro-active and able to work off own initiative and as part of a team
• CIMA/ACCA/ACA part qualified
• 1/2 years in a finance role

Desirable

• BPC
• SAP
• Powerpoint
• Previous experience of manufacturing / supply chain
• Experience of working in an FMCG organisation
• Experience with working across cross functional teams in a matrix style organisation