Finance Manager – Customer Supply

Here at innocent, we’re on a mission to make it easier for everyone to get more fruit and veg into their bodies. We started back in 1999 and since then we’ve gone from selling a few smoothies at a music festival to becoming one of Europe’s biggest drinks companies with around 1,000 people (and the B Corp seal of approval). It’s nice to be able to say things like that but we’re not patting ourselves on the back just yet. We want to show everyone that it’s possible to be a successful business while looking after people and the planet too, so we’re trying to get better in pretty much every way. And that’s where this job comes in.

What You'll Be Doing

We’re on the lookout for a Finance Manager - Customer Supply to partner our Customer Supply Operation teams. This is a new role to set-up and design the Financial customer supply function. In this role you will:

• Help the Customer Supply team to understand the true cost of selling a product and moving them from our warehouses towards our customers.
• Advise and steer your business stakeholders, and co-implement initiatives, to optimize our cost of sales.
• Partner with the Head of Customer Supply, to navigate through local complexities and work towards an integrated ways of working with a consolidated view of costs, cost drivers and risks / opportunities.
• Own the Customer Supply financial performance cycle, including the periodical close, risks / opportunities process, latest outlook and budget.
• Oversee financial review and control of local finished goods inventory, utilizing ERP system D365.
• Take ownership of parts of legal entities' trial balance.
• Collaborate closely with commercial finance business partners and the supply finance team.

Whilst this role is currently full time, we are able to offer it on a 4 days part-time basis if required.

You'll Have

• Business partnering experience.
• A good understanding of Finance principles.
• Able to analyse complex data and translate this into compelling stories.
• Comfortable operating with incomplete information and making judgment calls when necessary.
• Able to influence others with strong insights, and work collaboratively to our supply finance goals.
• Drive process change to build effective finance tools.

You'll Get

• An in-depth understanding of our supply chain and its >€300m annual spend.
• A brilliant all round finance exposure to budgets, forecasts and standard costing.
• Opportunity to develop and flex strong business partnering skills.
• A chance to help build processes and controls around customer supply finance.

We want innocent to be a great place to work, so we do lots of stuff to make people feel at home and try to make sure everyone’s career is shaping up the way they want it to. There are plenty of opportunities to have a go at something new or take things further. In exchange for helping us do business in the right way, you’ll get a solid rewards package that includes a salary, private healthcare, a target-based bonus, and a bunch of other nice things like a day off on your birthday. And yes, you get free smoothies. We also know that not all our drinkers come from the same background, or think the same – so why should we? At innocent, we want to be a great place to work where a diverse bunch of people from all backgrounds can turn up and thrive. When we hire, we want all the juice, bits, and pulp that make you who you are. Even if you don’t think you can tick all the boxes, if the job sounds right for you, come and throw your hat in the ring. Probably best to get your skates on though, as we might close this early if we get loads of applications.