Finance Manager

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All Locations
Leicester
All Departments
Finance
Advertising Salary
Competitive + Car/Car allowance
Vacancy Type
Permanent
Normal Working Days:
Monday to Friday
Normal Start & Finish Time:
8:30 to 17:00

About The Role

Join the Samworth Brothers Team and become part of our dynamic family!

At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations: -

  • Enhanced pension scheme
  • Private health scheme
  • Employee discount scheme
  • Experience annual pay reviews
  • Profit related pay
  • Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities
The Opportunity

As Finance Manager, you’ll be a key member of the Site Leadership Team at Saladworks, part of the Meals Category.

This is a true finance business partnering position, acting as the strategic link between Finance and Operations. You’ll bring financial insight, challenge, and clarity to help the site deliver sustainable performance improvements.

You’ll report into the Head of Operations Finance, with a dotted line into the Site Director, giving you influence at the heart of decision making.

Key Responsibilities :
 
  • Act as a strategic finance business partner to the Site Director and Leadership Team, providing insight, challenge and commercial support.
  • Drive performance improvement through robust analysis, financial discipline, and proactive identification of opportunities.
  • Lead all budgeting, forecasting and period-end reporting activities for the Saladworks site.
  • Provide strong cost control oversight, particularly across labour, overheads and costing standards.
  • Influence and engage stakeholders at all levels, building trusted relationships across Operations, Commercial, and Group functions.
  • Lead, develop and support a small finance team, creating a high‑performance, improvement-focused culture.
The Ideal Candidate

We believe that success is built upon collaboration and diverse perspectives. At Samworth Brothers, we welcome candidates who are passionate about working together to achieve greatness. As a valued member of our team, you will bring the following skills and experience: -
 
  • A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
  • Experienced within manufacturing and/or FMCG environments
  • Skilled in both operational and commercial finance
  • Confident analysing complex data and communicating insight clearly
  • A natural influencer with the ability to challenge, collaborate and engage at all levels
  • Enthusiastic about driving improvements and delivering meaningful change
 We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role. 

Join us at Samworth Brothers, where you'll be more than just a team member – you'll be an integral part of our thriving family. Apply today and embark on an exciting journey with us!
 

About Us

We are a fourth-generation family business producing high quality own-label products for many of the UK’s best-known retailers along with our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris, Urban Eat, West Cornwall Pasty Company and Walker & Son. We employ over 10,000 people in well-invested modern food manufacturing sites around the country.
 
At Samworth Brothers we take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.


Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative.

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