At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead financial analysis and reporting for agriculture operations, driving efficiency and strategic decision-making.
- Company: Join McCain, a passionate team focused on creating exceptional work experiences.
- Benefits: Enjoy private healthcare, annual bonuses, car allowance, and generous pension contributions.
- Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities for growth and innovation in a collaborative environment.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on agriculture finance while developing your leadership skills.
- Qualifications: Professional accountancy qualification and solid experience in financial performance analysis.
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role. Join our Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) Finance Team as a key business partner to the Agriculture Leadership Team. In this role, you'll be at the heart of how McCain makes smart, data-informed decisions across our agriculture operations. You'll lead and develop our agriculture analysts, helping them grow while shaping how we budget, forecast, and report on agriculture finance. You'll be the trusted voice in the room, providing sharp financial insight and business intelligence that helps us spot opportunities, quantify risk, and stay ahead of it. Working hand-in-hand with our McCain growers, you'll bring rigorous financial challenge and analysis to the table, helping drive real efficiency across the agriculture business. If you're someone who loves turning numbers into meaningful decisions, enjoys coaching others, and wants your work to have a direct impact on the farms and fields behind our products, this is a role where you'll genuinely make a difference.
What you'll be doing:
- Trusted Business Partner - Act as a key advisor to the Agriculture Directors and Finance Agriculture Director, bringing financial insight to the heart of agricultural decision-making.
- People Leadership - Manage and develop an ISC Analyst, helping them grow their skills and career.
- Driving Efficiency - Elevate agriculture finance analysis and reporting by standardising and automating processes, freeing up more time for high-value, strategic work.
- Price Performance Insight - Deliver clear, compelling analysis of potato price variances against budgets and quarterly forecasts, presenting conclusions and action plans within the monthly financial report to keep performance on track.
- Risk & Opportunity Management - Take ownership of a weekly review of agriculture risks and opportunities, recommending practical actions to mitigate exposure.
- Cost & Forecasting Ownership - Lead the annual potato standard cost of goods process and quarterly global forecast submissions.
- Capital Investment Expertise - Bring agricultural finance expertise to the validation, assessment, and post-investment evaluation of capital projects.
- NPD Financial Rigor - Challenge and validate potato cost requirements within New Product Development P&L proposals, ensuring robust financial foundations.
- Cross-Functional Innovation - Partner closely with the Seed department to reinvent and modernise reporting processes, alongside ad-hoc project work as opportunities arise.
What you'll need to be successful:
- A professional accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent)
- Solid industry experience, with a track record of analysing and reporting on financial performance
- A strong grasp of financial controls, with experience implementing and improving them
- Confidence working across Microsoft Office, with the analytical rigour to match
- A natural ability to build relationships with internal customers and stakeholders at all levels
- Sharp analytical skills - you can interpret financial results and turn numbers into clear, actionable insight
- A problem-solving mindset, comfortable navigating complexity and finding practical solutions
- Excellent verbal and written communication, with the ability to influence and negotiate confidently across the business
Benefits:
Although we do encourage you to taste the goods, you'll be pleased to know we don't pay you in chips. Alongside your salary, you'll enjoy a range of benefits including:
- Private healthcare (single cover)
- Annual bonus scheme based on both company and individual performance with the ability to salary sacrifice into your pension
- Annual car allowance
- An excellent salary sacrifice pension scheme where we'll contribute double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your salary
- 25 days' annual leave from day one
Senior Finance Business Partner - Agriculture & ISC in Richmond employer: McCain Foods (GB) Ltd
At McCain, we pride ourselves on being a vibrant and inclusive employer that values passion and teamwork. As a Receiving/Intake Operative, you'll enjoy a supportive work culture that prioritises employee growth and development, alongside competitive benefits that enhance your work-life balance. Located in a dynamic environment, you will be part of a company that not only leads the frozen potato industry but also champions sustainability and community engagement.
