Central Finance - Procurement Finance Manager

Central Finance - Procurement Finance Manager Job Description

Location: Flexible (Cardiff, Hamilton, Manchester, Salisbury & Sheffield). Occasional travel to other sites & locations as required.

Shift: Monday - Friday

Salary: Competitive + Benefits

We have an exciting opportunity for a Procurement Finance Manager to join our Central Finance team here at Finsbury Food Group.

Finsbury Food Group is a leading speciality bakery manufacturer. We constantly raise quality and efficiency standards, and build long-term relationships with major multiple retailers and the foodservice channel. The bread for your morning toast, ready for butter-spreading or egg-dipping. The candle-filled centrepiece for a memorable celebration. The buns, muffins and other treats that turn teatime into quality time. We make a large percentage of the UK's sharing cakes from retailer own brands cakes, tray bakes through to party cakes like Caterpillar cakes This is what we do, and why we're in business. Baking brilliance makes every day special.

This is a key, high-impact role responsible for driving EBITDA growth and optimising stock and cash efficiency through strong financial leadership, insight, and business partnering. Working closely with Procurement and cross-functional teams across the business, you will play a critical role in supporting both operational performance and strategic decision-making.

Operating within a fast-paced, collaborative environment, and against a constantly evolving macroeconomic backdrop including commodity volatility, inflation, and supply chain pressures, this role offers excellent exposure across multiple sites and functions. It is an ideal opportunity for someone looking to develop their career within a growing and evolving organisation.

This is what you'll actually do!

You will work at the centre of procurement finance activity, partnering closely with Procurement teams to provide high-quality financial analysis and meaningful insight to support decision-making.

You will be responsible for delivering accurate and timely weekly and monthly reporting, alongside ownership of forecasting cycles and budget support. You will analyse key drivers including commodity movements, pricing, rebates, and purchase price variance, identifying trends and root causes while translating data into clear, actionable insights.

You will support the development of pricing assumptions and forward-looking projections, contributing to budgets, forecasts, and longer-term strategic planning. You'll review tender financials, offering insight and recommendations to support strong, commercially sound decisions.

In addition, you will play a key role in ensuring alignment between financial reporting and business intelligence tools, supporting data accuracy and consistency across platforms such as Power BI. You will also contribute to value engineering initiatives, working collaboratively with Procurement, Supply Chain, and site teams to identify and deliver cost saving opportunities.

This role requires a strong balance of analytical capability and commercial awareness with the ability to interpret external market factors and macroeconomic trends and translate these into meaningful business insight and action.

To be successful, you will be a proactive and detail-oriented finance professional who is confident in influencing and challenging stakeholders, with the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced and evolving environment.

Ideally this is you!

• CIMA or ACCA qualified with relevant post-qualification experience
• Proven experience within FMCG and/or manufacturing environments
• Strong background in financial reporting, forecasting, and business partnering
• Advanced Excel skills with the ability to analyse and interpret complex data
• Strong attention to detail with a structured and analytical approach
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Confident working cross-functionally with Procurement, Commercial, Supply Chain, and IT teams
• Experience with reporting tools such as Power BI (desirable)
• Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple priorities to tight deadlines
• Proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement

What's in it for you?

• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival!
• Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees
• Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families)
• Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform!
• Company shop available at sites (heavily discounted, yummy products!)
• Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300 per referral - t&cs dependent)
• Employee Recognition Awards Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in-house development course!)
• An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organisation. Head over to our LinkedIn page to find out more!

Our vision is to be the leading specialty bakery group in the UK and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals. We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength. If this sounds like you, please get in contact to learn more!