The Manufacturing Finance Business Partner will provide financial insight, support plant operations, prepare financial reports, and drive efficiency and improvement within the manufacturing Finance Team.
Position Title: Manufacturing Finance Business Partner - Part time
Position Type: Temporary - Part-Time
Requisition ID: 39902
Manufacturing Finance Business Partner
About McCain.
At McCain, we're feeding the world: from French fries to Smiles, we contribute to the important role food plays in people's lives. That's why we're dedicated to ensuring our core values-Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality- shine through every day. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in more than 160 countries, and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that we can work together, along with our business and community partners, to bring sustainable growth and positive change today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. Join us and see how you can MAKE IT at McCain!
Why join the McCain family .
About the role .
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy .
We're looking for a proactive and commercially focused Management Accountant to join our Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) Finance Team. Acting as a key business partner to our Plant Operations and Engineering teams, you'll provide critical financial insight that supports efficient manufacturing performance, drives continuous improvement, and strengthens our financial controls.
This is a 6 month FTC on a part time basis of around 24 to 30-hours per week, of which 2/3-days per week on-site with 1-day Hybrid working. There will be some requirements to travel, especially in the first few months whilst familiarising yourself with the business and the role, at times you'll also be required to travel to our HQ in Scarborough, North Yorkshire at time.
What you'll be doing
In this varied and influential role, you will:
Leadership Principles .
Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organisation . Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles.
We are customer obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success.
We think big and plan ahead . Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success.
We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together.
We act like owners. Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain.
Accountabilities .
Reporting to the Senior Finance Manufacturing Business Partner / Director of Finance for Manufacturing , you'll be part of a small Finance and plant team and will demonstrate your flexible and challengin g and dynamic approach and mindset. You'll also:
You'll be ab l e to demonstrate a challenging and supportive mindset to think big and plan ahead , with the ability to demonstrate our leadership principles with how you are supportive, can challeng e and can see the bigger picture to enable supporting the leadership and wider team. You'll also demonstrate your ability to be able to explain financial forecasting and numbers using non-financial language.
Qualifications & Skills:
Essential:
Location.
You'll be either based at our Whittlesey plant in Peterborough. If you've spotted our three wind turbines, then you'll know where we are! With about 400 employees on site, we're one of our largest plants across the GB business. Our Whittlesey plant is where we make our famous French Fries as well as our chilled products, such as our Shake Shake Fries.
Or you could be based at our Wombourne plant in Staffordshire. And together our small, but perfectly formed team of over 110 colleagues produce our famous (and well loved) potato Smiles as well as our pre-baked Jacket Spuds and hash browns.
The benefits of working for McCain .
Although we do encourage you to taste the goods you'll be pleased to know we don't pay you in 'chips'. For working hard, you'll also get a great salary and some pretty good benefits including:
And of course, being part of a Global business there are great opportunities to shine/thrive should you wish to relocate in the future. We have an ambitious 5-year growth plan that presents development & progression opportunities for those who seek it out.
The McCain experience.
We are McCain: this statement is about our power collectively and our importance individually-your impact is a significant part of the business. Our winning culture focuses on authenticity and trust so we can always bring out the best in our people . Here, you have the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive while being yourself.
Come and join The Makers to see why we are better together.
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.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain's Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy , as applicable. You can understand how your personal information is being handled here .
Job Family: Finance
Division: GB Finance
Department: ISC Finance - Manufacturing
Location(s): GB - United Kingdom : England : Whittlesey || GB - United Kingdom : England : Birmingham* || GB - United Kingdom : England : Coventry* || GB - United Kingdom : England : Peterborough || GB - United Kingdom : England : Wolverhampton || GB - United Kingdom : England : Wombourne
Company: McCain Foods (G.B.) Ltd
Position Type: Temporary - Part-Time
Requisition ID: 39902
Manufacturing Finance Business Partner
About McCain.
At McCain, we're feeding the world: from French fries to Smiles, we contribute to the important role food plays in people's lives. That's why we're dedicated to ensuring our core values-Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality- shine through every day. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in more than 160 countries, and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that we can work together, along with our business and community partners, to bring sustainable growth and positive change today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. Join us and see how you can MAKE IT at McCain!
Why join the McCain family .
- Your Life - we're here to help you fulfil your potential, flourish, and thrive in work and life.
- Your Success - work alongside passionate individuals who are committed to supporting your career ambitions, drive, and success.
- Your Impact - we want you to make a meaningful, lasting impact for you, for your colleagues, and for the business.
About the role .
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy .
We're looking for a proactive and commercially focused Management Accountant to join our Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) Finance Team. Acting as a key business partner to our Plant Operations and Engineering teams, you'll provide critical financial insight that supports efficient manufacturing performance, drives continuous improvement, and strengthens our financial controls.
This is a 6 month FTC on a part time basis of around 24 to 30-hours per week, of which 2/3-days per week on-site with 1-day Hybrid working. There will be some requirements to travel, especially in the first few months whilst familiarising yourself with the business and the role, at times you'll also be required to travel to our HQ in Scarborough, North Yorkshire at time.
What you'll be doing
In this varied and influential role, you will:
- Act as a Finance Business Partner to Plant Managers and Engineering teams, providing insight and challenge.
- Attend regular plant performance and review meetings, offering financial support and recommendations.
- Prepare and analyse financial and management information for the manufacturing plants.
- Lead plant month-end close activities, including cost and variance analysis and performance interpretation.
- Produce routine management reports and deliver total delivered cost conclusions vs. standards and forecasts.
- Report weekly risks and opportunities across plants, highlighting required mitigation actions.
- Validate and assess capital investment proposals and cost-saving initiatives.
- Suggest improvements to financial controls and contribute to streamlining reporting processes.
- Support quarterly forecasting and annual budgeting cycles.
- Deliver ad hoc financial analysis for manufacturing projects and capital expenditure.
Leadership Principles .
Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organisation . Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles.
We are customer obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success.
We think big and plan ahead . Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success.
We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together.
We act like owners. Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain.
Accountabilities .
Reporting to the Senior Finance Manufacturing Business Partner / Director of Finance for Manufacturing , you'll be part of a small Finance and plant team and will demonstrate your flexible and challengin g and dynamic approach and mindset. You'll also:
- Be fl exible and challenging in your approach w orking with a small Finance Team
- R esponsible for the completion of weekly financial statements, closing month end reports, and reporting results, in a clear and easily understandable format for the wider plant team.
- Complete detailed Annual Budgets including both financial and operational metrics .
- Responsible for q uarterly reforecasting of usage and rate variances for ingredients, labour and energy etc.
- Complete Ov erhead Analysis and Account Reconciliations
- Have regular Financial Performance Reviews with Operational Teams
- Create c osting of New Product Developments with the wider plant teams
- Attend Plant Operational Reviews
You'll be ab l e to demonstrate a challenging and supportive mindset to think big and plan ahead , with the ability to demonstrate our leadership principles with how you are supportive, can challeng e and can see the bigger picture to enable supporting the leadership and wider team. You'll also demonstrate your ability to be able to explain financial forecasting and numbers using non-financial language.
Qualifications & Skills:
Essential:
- Qualified by Experience or working towards/completed CIMA (or equivalent).
- Ideally a background in manufacturing and a fast-paced environment.
- Comfortable working across departments, with confident communication skills to both financial and operational teams
- Systems knowledge of SAP with integrated Standard Costing or similar system experience
- Proficient in Microsoft Office.
- Proven ability to implement effective financial controls.
- Strong business partnering skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively and collaboratively.
- Strong ability to work effectively with internal customers and stakeholders.
- Comfortable working within a matrix reporting environment.
- Experience analysing and reporting on financial performance.
- Able to analyse, understand, interpret and present financial results to various levels across the business.
Location.
You'll be either based at our Whittlesey plant in Peterborough. If you've spotted our three wind turbines, then you'll know where we are! With about 400 employees on site, we're one of our largest plants across the GB business. Our Whittlesey plant is where we make our famous French Fries as well as our chilled products, such as our Shake Shake Fries.
Or you could be based at our Wombourne plant in Staffordshire. And together our small, but perfectly formed team of over 110 colleagues produce our famous (and well loved) potato Smiles as well as our pre-baked Jacket Spuds and hash browns.
The benefits of working for McCain .
Although we do encourage you to taste the goods you'll be pleased to know we don't pay you in 'chips'. For working hard, you'll also get a great salary and some pretty good benefits including:
- An excellent pension where we will pay double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your pay
- Flexible holidays - where you can buy & sell up to 5 days holiday per year
- Optional health cash plan
- Cycle to work scheme
- 'Chips In' Volunteering Day Off - to make a positive impact to the competitiveness, resilience, and long-term development of McCain communities across the globe
And of course, being part of a Global business there are great opportunities to shine/thrive should you wish to relocate in the future. We have an ambitious 5-year growth plan that presents development & progression opportunities for those who seek it out.
The McCain experience.
We are McCain: this statement is about our power collectively and our importance individually-your impact is a significant part of the business. Our winning culture focuses on authenticity and trust so we can always bring out the best in our people . Here, you have the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive while being yourself.
Come and join The Makers to see why we are better together.
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.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain's Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy , as applicable. You can understand how your personal information is being handled here .
Job Family: Finance
Division: GB Finance
Department: ISC Finance - Manufacturing
Location(s): GB - United Kingdom : England : Whittlesey || GB - United Kingdom : England : Birmingham* || GB - United Kingdom : England : Coventry* || GB - United Kingdom : England : Peterborough || GB - United Kingdom : England : Wolverhampton || GB - United Kingdom : England : Wombourne
Company: McCain Foods (G.B.) Ltd
Top Skills
MS Office
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