Finance Lead - Ops Finance

• Responsible for the leadership and management of the Operations Finance Function
• Business partner to the Operations Director and the wider Operations Function
• Drive financial performance of the Brewing &Brands Breweries and its Distribution network
• Key player in negotiations with suppliers
• Support the Senior Management team in key decision making
• Champion the cultural values of the Greene King Group
• Drive periodic operations budget/forecasting processes
• Create standard KPIs to track performance against budget/forecast, capturing variances to plan, evaluating consequences for the full year out turn and identifying strategies to mitigate adverse variances
• Support the Operations Director in the identification and delivery of new profit improvement initiatives
• Attend supplier meetings and presentations

Join us at Greene King the country's leading pub company and brewer, where our mission is to pour happiness into lives and become the pride of great British hospitality. We have something special, deeply rooted in our 220-year brewing and pub history, creating the business we are proudly known for today. Still today our 39,000 strong team are the guardians of what’s wholly British, the pub experience.  

We’re all about rewarding our team’s hard work, that’s why…

You’ll receive a competitive salary, pension contribution as well as:

• The chance to further your career across our well-known brands – as one of the industry's top apprenticeship providers, we can provide training and development at each level of your career. 
• Discount of 33% for you and 15% for your loved ones on all of our brands – so you enjoy your favourite food and drink at a discount.
• Free employee assistance program – mental health, well-being, financial, and legal support because you matter!
• Discount of 50% for you and 25% for your loved ones at our Greene King Inns and hotels. – so you can enjoy a weekend away without breaking the bank.
• Refer a friend – who do you know who could be interested in a new role? When they are placed, you could earn £1,500 for referring them!
• Wagestream – access your wage before payday for when life happens.
• Retail discounts – Receive up to 30% off at Superdrug, exclusive discounts with three mobile along with many more…

Your role as Finance Lead - Ops Finance 

• Production of a quality operations reporting pack in line with the business’ reporting rhythm, providing considered insight into operating costs, competitor activity and industry developments. This reporting will draw concise conclusions and robust recommendations
• Thorough understanding of the key pressures on input costs and operating overheads. Using this insight to recommend and drive opportunities to mitigate the effect of these on the business’ performance
• Drive range/sku optimisation and ownership of product costing methodology
• Establish and maintain robust financial governance within the operations function and adherence to wider group policies, including tight management of the value of inventory and creditors
• Work with operations team to maximise asset utilisation
• Analyse Capex requirements ensuring that all requests have been robustly evaluated and meet the requirements for payback, return on capital etc.
• Carry out periodic post investment reviews and report on results
• Represent Operations Finance at the S&OP forumn ensuring that the production forecast is accurately represented and captured

What you’ll bring… 

• Decision Support & Analysis
• Budgeting and Forecasting
• Reporting
• Governance
• Project Management
• Develop ‘best in class’ operations finance team
• Set clear objectives for each member of the team, monitoring delivery and supporting as required
• Create development and succession plans for each member of the operations finance team
• Resilience - never gives up
• Relentless, proactive focus on reducing business costs
• Good knowledge of own numbers and always has a plan to meet or exceed targets without being asked
• Use thinking skills to analyse, decide, prioritise and plan.
• Can balance short term requirements with long term objectives to achieve commercial goals
• Able to influence people at all levels, internal and external, through listening and adjusting communication style to meet the needs of the audience
• Understands the brewing & distribution better than anyone else in the business
• Always seeking to improve quality and service for our internal / external stakeholders
• Works with colleagues to do what is best for the Company as a whole, ahead of divisional, department or personal goals
• Leadership -puts the team first
• Owns results of self and team.  Inspires others to follow through involvement, coaching, setting direction and performance standards

• Experience of working within a fast paced, challenging FMCG environment
• Track record of self-motivation, with intelligence and ability to evolve and grow with the role
• Ability to build and develop relationships with key stakeholders including Finance staff, Senior Management etc.
• Advanced Excel skills as a given
• Strong communication skills and resilience in the face of challenge from various senior stakeholders
• Comfortable dealing with change and ambiguity