McCain Foods
Finance Analyst, Supply Chain
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Position Title: Finance Analyst, Supply Chain
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 43372
Finance Analyst (Supply Chain)
Scarborough- Hybrid
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
This is a role where your numbers really mean something. As a Financial Analyst, you'll work closely with the Business Controller, supporting Supply Chain, GB&I and EMENA teams to push financial performance across the business. From deep-dive data analysis to KPI tracking and sharp financial insights, you'll be right at the heart of decisions that drive cost efficiency, productivity and operational performance.
What You’ll Be Doing
Month-End Close & Operational P&L Support
- You'll be hands-on with month-end close activities, owning journal entries, accruals and variance commentary across your allocated business areas.
- You'll keep things moving accurately and on time, making sure the books are closed in line with corporate deadlines and internal control requirements.
Financial Analysis & Reporting
- You'll produce monthly management reports that people actually use — P&L views, cost trends and KPIs that give commercial functions a clear picture of where they stand.
- Variance and trend analysis versus budget, forecast and prior year will be a core part of your week, with a sharp eye kept on data quality across ERP systems and reporting tools.
KPI & Performance Management
- You'll own and continuously improve operational KPI dashboards — covering areas like cost per unit, labour productivity, scrap costs, overtime and utilisation.
- Regular updates to the Finance Director will be part of the role, alongside digging into the root causes behind performance gaps and putting a financial figure on what they mean for the business.
Budgeting & Forecasting Support
- Budget season won't phase you. You'll support the full annual budget and forecasting cycle — consolidating inputs, building bridge analyses and making sure everything aligns with central Finance.
- Risks and opportunities won't go unnoticed on your watch.
Business Partnering & Decision Support
- This isn't a back-office role. You'll work closely with Business Partners and the Finance Director, providing analysis that feeds directly into leadership reviews.
- Whether it's modelling the financial impact of a shift pattern change, a headcount move or a production adjustment, your work will influence real decisions.
Tools, Data & Process Improvement
- You'll be a go-to person for finance reporting tools and templates, and you won't just maintain the status quo — you'll look for ways to make things sharper, faster and smarter.
- From BI tool adoption to process automation and dashboard development, you'll play an active role in how the Finance team evolves.
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Governance & Compliance
- You'll make sure that everything you produce stands up to scrutiny — aligned with group policies, internal control requirements and properly documented.
- You'll help build a strong controls environment within Operations Finance that the whole team can rely on.
What You’ll Need To Be Successful
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Engineering, Maths or a related field
- 2–5 years of hands-on experience in a finance role, ideally with exposure to operations or manufacturing finance, FP&A, financial control or month-end close
- Experience working in a multinational or multi-site environment is a real plus
- A background in the food industry is a welcome bonus, though certainly not essential
Your Technical Toolkit
- Solid understanding of month-end close processes, including accruals, variance analysis and cost allocation
- Confident in Excel — pivot tables, lookups and basic financial modelling are second nature to you
- Exposure to Power BI or similar BI tools is a bonus
- Familiarity with ERP systems, particularly SAP, is preferred
- Comfortable working with large volumes of data — finding the errors others miss and turning raw numbers into clear, reliable outputs
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
- 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
And because you're joining a global business, your career opportunities don't stop at the factory gate. Whether you're looking to deepen your expertise, step into leadership, or even explore opportunities internationally, we'll support your growth. With ambitious plans for the future, there's plenty of scope to develop your career with us.
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Leadership principles
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain Experience
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.
Our purpose is grounded in building meaningful relationships. We’re big believers in the power of working together in person—it helps us stay connected, collaborate more effectively, and grow as a team. At the same time, we recognize the importance of flexibility. Most office-based roles follow a hybrid model, with the option to work remotely two days a week. There may be exceptions depending on the role and location, so we encourage you to speak with your recruiter for more details.
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.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
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Job Family: Finance
Location(s): GB - United Kingdom : England : Scarborough
Company: McCain Foods (G.B.) Ltd
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