Senior Finance Business Partner

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About the role (12 months Secondment)

Ocado Technology is at the core of Ocado Group, with a mission to create and support Ocado's pioneering automated technology platforms globally. We're looking for a Senior Finance Business Partner to join our team and support the Technology Operations Supply Chain.

This role involves highly visible and business-critical activities, including the Sales & Operations planning cycle. This cycle is crucial for aligning procurement with demand, which helps to reduce obsolescence risk. You'll also contribute to the continual improvement of cash flow forecasting and the execution of new manufacturing arrangements for products like Metal Totes, 600s Bots, and Porters.

Your primary responsibilities will be to provide insights into centrally procured spend, advise and support your business partners, and contribute to process improvement and transformation initiatives. If you are a finance professional who thrives in a dynamic, technology-driven environment and are ready to make a tangible impact, this might be the role for you.

Accountabilities

This Senior Finance Business Partner role offers a unique opportunity to drive significant financial strategy and operational excellence within a global technology leader. Here is what makes this role stand out:

• Strategic Influence on Executive Decisions: You will directly impact high-level decisions by modelling the financial impact of demand plans on inventory, capex, and cash flow for presentations to the Executive group. This includes proactively identifying and raising risks and challenges in demand and investment, using your insights to shape the future of our global supply chain.
• Driving Commercial Value & Innovation: You will identify and lead initiatives that generate significant commercial value. This means finding opportunities for cost efficiencies, process improvements, and strategic investments that directly contribute to our growth.
• Shaping Global Product Launches: Play a crucial role in bringing cutting-edge technology to life. This includes working closely with project managers to support investments in new manufacturing contracts and the global distribution of exciting new products like Metal Totes, the 600s Bot, and Porter.
• Strengthening Financial Expertise: An opportunity to deepen your expertise by reviewing capital expenditure proposals, supporting the budgeting process, and undertaking P&L and Capex re-forecasting. A key focus will also be on maintaining and enhancing financial controls, ensuring robust balance sheet accuracy.
• Building Strong Partnerships & Driving Improvement: This role is highly collaborative. Provide accurate and insightful financial storytelling while offering both support and challenge to the Technology Operations Supply Chain teams. You will also drive continuous improvements to business processes to boost efficiency and accuracy.
• High Visibility & Ad-Hoc Commercial Involvement: Involvement in highly visible activities and proactively support Supply Chain with diverse ad-hoc commercial activities, ensuring no two days are the same.

About you

• Qualified ACA / ACCA / CIMA accountant with 2+ years PQE
• Minimum 2:1 degree and other strong academic record are essential
• Experience in supporting senior managers in non-finance teams
• Experience of financial appraisals and/or financial reporting and insightful analysis
• Solid experience of budgeting and forecasting
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheet skills

Preferred (in addition to minimum):

• Experience in global business within Engineering/Technology sectors
• Experience of Supply Chain and inventory management
• Experience of mainstream accounting packages e.g. Oracle

What we offer you

Our employee benefits are designed for you, we care about people and we’ve ensured we have a wealth of benefits that focus on your well-being. We regularly review our benefits to ensure we are supporting our employees appropriately.

• 30 days ‘working from anywhere in the world’ policy 
• Wellbeing support through dedicated apps and an Employee Assistance Programme 
• 25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days after 5 years service (plus optional holiday purchase)
• Pension scheme (various options available including employer contribution matching up to 7%)
• Generous Private Medical Insurance (within the first month of joining!)
• Income Protection (can be up to 50% of salary for 3 years) and Life Assurance (3 x annual salary) 
• 22 weeks paid maternity leave and 6 weeks paid paternity leave (once relevant service requirements complete) 
• Train Ticket loan (interest-free)
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Free shuttle bus to and from Hatfield Train Station to the Hatfield offices 
• Free shuttle bus to and from Welwyn Garden City Train Station to the Welwyn Garden City offices
• Opportunity to participate in Sharesave and Buy as You Earn share schemes
• 15% discount on Ocado.com and free delivery for all employees (within the first month of joining!)