Finance Manager

What would you get for working here?

If you have the Finance Manager experience and skills we are looking for then you will receive a total reward package that includes:

• A competitive salary dependent on experience
• 10% Pension Contribution (5% Ees / 5% Ers)
• Life Insurance (4 x basic salary)
• Private Health Insurance (Family Cover)
• 33 days annual leave (Inc of Bank Holidays)
• £250 refer-a-friend scheme
• Access to an exclusive employee benefits/discounts platform where you can save £££s on your everyday spends
• Excellent coffee machines available free-of-charge
• Professional development opportunities and qualifications
• A progressive working environment that puts its people at the heart of what it does
• Great opportunity for career development

What would you be doing?

Our Vision as a business is to be the “Go-to” supplier of bakery products, working nationally with retailers such as M&S and Waitrose on their premium private label range and regionally through the Village Bakery brand. In achieving this vision, we want to be recognised as a family business that continually invests in the future through the development of our people, quality and food safety culture, equipment and processes.

As a member of the Finance Team you will be directly contributing to this vision through your core tasks and responsibilities these will include, but are not limited to:

• Managing a transaction team of 7 (4 sales ledger / 3 purchase ledger).
• Taking responsibility for higher level aspects of both sales ledger & purchase ledger eg. KPI reporting / VAT compliance procedures / month end tasks.
• In conjunction with the SL & PL Supervisors, identify and drive process improvements.
• Implement and drive HR initiatives throughout the wider Finance Team eg. appraisals / objectives / training / consistent terms & conditions.
• Ad-hoc tasks as required. These may be finance related or related to the efficient running of the finance team.

What are we looking for?

The successful candidate for this role will need to demonstrate the following skills, qualifications and attributes:

• Prior experience working within a busy finance team, managing sales ledger & purchase ledger is key, as it experience driving process changes within a fast-growing business.
• The ideal candidate will be organised & task orientated.
• The ability to work closely with all members of the finance team is also essential.

So, who are we? If you haven’t heard of us before we are a family owned and managed Craft Bakery producing an award-winning range of Bread, Morning Goods, Pies and gluten free products.

Our business has been producing products in this category since 1964 and since then we have grown in success due to our reputation for quality, innovation and technical experience. As a result of this continued growth, we now operate from a number of world class and well invested bakeries in and around Wrexham, including our dedicated Gluten free site ‘Gluten Freedom’ and our state-of-the-art ‘Super Bakery’ at Ash Road. 

If you would like to join our award-winning, quality-driven team please use the ‘apply now’ link and follow the on-line application instructions.

We look forward to welcoming you to our team soon!