At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead financial insights for agriculture operations and develop a team of analysts.
- Company: Join McCain, a global leader in the food industry with a collaborative culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy private healthcare, annual bonuses, flexible working, and generous leave.
- Other info: Opportunities for growth and international experience in a supportive environment.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on agriculture finance while developing your career.
- Qualifications: Professional accountancy qualification and strong analytical skills required.
The predicted salary is between 50000 - 60000 Β£ per year.
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:
- 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 plus bank holidays (increasing with service), giving you plenty of time to recharge with the opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days holiday per year.
- Life insurance cover providing peace of mind for you and your family.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, because the moments that matter outside of work matter to us too.
- Medicash health cash plan, helping you claim money back on everyday healthcare costs, with access to a virtual GP and wellbeing support.
- TELUS Health employee and family assistance programme offering full wellbeing support - including a 24/7 confidential counselling line, legal and financial guidance, and a range of employee discounts.
- Salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme.
- A paid 'Chips In' Volunteering Day, giving you the opportunity to support projects that make a positive impact in our communities.
- Flexible/hybrid working arrangements where the role allows.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
Senior Finance Business Partner - Agriculture & ISC in Scarborough employer: McCain Foods Ltd
At McCain Foods, we pride ourselves on being a vibrant and inclusive employer that values the contributions of every team member. Located in Whittlesey, our state-of-the-art plant offers not only competitive pay and an excellent pension scheme but also unique benefits like a volunteering day off and opportunities for career progression within a global family-owned business. Join us to be part of a passionate team dedicated to creating delicious, planet-friendly food while enjoying a supportive work culture that fosters growth and innovation.