Leicester Site Finance Manager/Business Partner

Overview

PepsiCo UK is home to some of the world\’s most loved food and drink products. Making every day favourites like Walkers, Quaker, Doritos, Pipers and Monster Munch, to name a few! We have a fantastic reputation for developing and launching products that our consumers love. PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers around the world more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories. The company generated $91 billion in net revenue in 2023. In the UK we pride ourselves on being a great place to work and in 2023 have been awarded the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality (formerly Times Top 50 Employers for Women) for the 18th year in a row and Top Employer for the 12th year in a row.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with PepsiCo Positive (pep+). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability at the centre of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people. For more information, visit

We’re on the lookout for a Site Finance Manager looking after our manfacturing sites in Leicester. The Leicester sites are at the heart of PepsiCo UK. Producing millions of packets of great tasting Walkers crisps & snacks every day. As the Site Finance Manager, you’ll be a key member of the site leadership team helping to shape the overall site agenda whilst having overall responsibility for the site financials, managing the results of a complex manufacturing operation.

Responsibilities

• Financial modelling of strategic planning, formulating both short and long-term business plans whilst ensuring key business decisions are underpinned with robust financial justification.
• Support managers on site productivity pipeline.
• Support & verify Investment proposal development and financial appraisals.
• Lead period end, driving key SOX and GCS* financial control processes.
• Periodic and annual forecast co-ordination and delivery.
• Provide insight and analysis to drive delivery against the site financial plan.
• Drive the standard of financial reporting systems (includes weekly Labour, Raw Material closes).
• Role model PepsiCo values and culture, and proactively support people development across the site.
• Be the escalation point for all site based finance decisions.
• Full autonomy for construction of the Annual Operating Plan, forecasts and subsequent budgetary management.
• Be a key member of the site leadership team, having overall responsibility for site financials
• Leading a team of qualified and non-qualified finance professionals.

Qualifications

• Financially qualified, management accountant or equivalent (CIMA/ACCA).
• Previous financial experience In an operations/manufacturing environment preferred.
• Ability to effectively manage change.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to empower and coach colleagues of all levels.
• Clear communicator, able to deliver complex messages in a simple manner (to both finance and non-finance colleagues).
• Ability to build relationship at all levels of the organisation.
• Flexible approach with a keen eye for detail and the ability to make good, balanced business decisions to meet future business and customer requirements.
• Demonstrated drive for results and a can do attitude.
• SAP & TM1 experience preferred but not essential

Why PepsiCo?

We offer a competitive salary, bonus, car allowance, critical Illness cover, flexible working, discounted gym membership, market-leading health and wellbeing support, generous company pension plus so much more. In 2024 we enhanced our extended parental leave offering, now paying in full for 26 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks for paternity leave for those who have the respective length of service. We’re also pushing our benefits to be more pep+ by offering electric cars through salary sacrifice with a partnership with Octopus Energy.

We pride ourselves on our superb work force. The people in this business genuinely care about doing a great job! We have a common goal – strive to continuously improve our business performance and our own personal development. With the majority of executive team having been promoted organically, we are continually developing and encouraging our employees to push themselves further and offer them support with their continual learning. Career progression is incredibly important to us and we provide great opportunities to grow a long term career.

We want each and every PepsiCo employee to feel comfortable just simply being who they are and bring their full self to work. We celebrate what makes us all unique and know that to truly represent the communities around us we must reflect them in our workforce.

We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with the Equality Act 2010, we value diversity at our company; it is an essential part of our success. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, pregnancy or maternity, marital/civil partnerships, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, disability or race including; colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin.

To enable you to be at your best we will ensure you are provided with any physical or non-physical adjustments to support your participation in the job application and interview process. Please speak to the Recruiter directly about any support you need.

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