Noble Foods Home of the Happy Egg Co.

Noble Foods is a family-owned company which began in 1920 and includes successful milling, poultry, agriculture, and consumer foods businesses. Within this, Noble Foods owns several successful brands, including the UK’s biggest free-range egg brand the Happy Egg co., Big & Fresh and Purely Organic.

In a recent survey by Best Companies we were rated as one of the Top 10 companies to work for in the Food and Drink industry.

What are we looking for?

Support the Commercial Finance team with accurate reporting, analysis and insight to inform customer, pricing and profitability decisions. Working closely with Finance and Commercial colleagues, you will help improve the quality, efficiency and consistency of financial reporting while developing your commercial finance experience.

Key Responsabilities of the role – (This list is not exhaustive)

Commercial Finance & Analysis

· Prepare weekly and monthly sales, volume, price and margin reporting, with support from the team.

· Analyse performance against budget, forecast and prior year; investigate variances and identify key drivers.

· Assist with customer and product profitability, pricing, promotional and commercial investment analysis.

· Provide ad hoc analysis to support commercial decision-making.

Forecasting & Planning

· Support forecasting and budgeting, including customer and product volume forecasts.

· Maintain planning files and trackers, ensuring assumptions are clearly documented.

· Help reconcile commercial forecasts with financial reporting.

Costing & Margin

· Support product and customer costing, maintain costing information and assist with margin analysis.

· Analyse changes in product, packaging and other input costs; highlight anomalies for investigation.

Support the Commercial Management Accountant, who retains ownership of costing models, cost variance investigation, management reporting and pricing, promotions and tender support.

Reporting & Systems

· Maintain commercial finance reports and data, ensuring accuracy, appropriate controls and delivery to agreed deadlines.

· Support improvements to Excel and Power BI reporting; help automate and streamline recurring work.

Business Partnering

· Build effective relationships with Commercial, Supply Chain and Finance colleagues.

· Respond to routine financial queries and provide supporting analysis.

· Develop an understanding of commercial drivers across customers and products.

Health and Safety, Social and Environmental Responsibilities:

· Consistently complied with health and safety requirements by following policies and procedures, completing training, raising any concerns promptly, and working collaboratively to promote a safe and healthy workplace.

· Demonstrated awareness of the company's Impact Strategy by embedding sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing and ethical practices into my work, while collaborating with others to support our social and environmental goals and minimise negative impacts.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience:

Essential

· Strong numerical and analytical skills, with high attention to detail and accuracy.

· Good Excel skills, including formulas, PivotTables and data analysis.

· Comfortable working with large datasets and managing multiple deadlines.

· A confident communicator with a proactive approach.

· Commercial curiosity and a willingness to challenge and investigate numbers.

Desirable

· A degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.

· Previous Finance, Commercial or analytical experience.

· Experience of Power BI or other data visualisation tools.

· Studying towards, or considering, AAT, CIMA or ACCA.

· Experience in FMCG, food manufacturing or retail is useful but not essential.

Behaviours & Values : TO CARE

Together – is working collaboratively. Trusting each other as one Noble Family

· Recognises when a new or less experienced team member needs help and helps them.

· Is open to receiving feedback from others.

Ownership – Is taking the initiative and holding ourselves accountable

· Takes personal responsibility for the quality, safety and timeliness of their work.

· Takes initiative and makes improvement recommendations.

Courage – Is being bold in decisions and standing up for what we believe in

· Raise Issues with their team leader and the team and suggests ways to resolve them.

· Puts themselves forward for additional training and responsibilities.

Action – Is acting with speed and integrity and ensure we always deliver

· Acts safely and efficiency to achieve their daily tasks and helps others to achieve on time.

· Asks for clarification if they are not sure of what they are being asked to do.

Respect – Is valuing everyone’s voice and contribution and earning the trust of others.

· Contributes to a trusting team by treating everyone with respect and by showing kindness to all colleagues.

· Respects the decisions made by the group, trusting that they are the right ones for the business.

Excellence – Is leading by example and getting better every day

· Takes every opportunity to learn new skills.

· Can adapt to business and process changes with ease.

 We believe the most successful teams are formed from a diverse talent pool and we strive to employ a wide variety of individuals in our business, selecting the best qualified person for each role regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristics.

What can we offer you?

• Free hot drinks on shift

• Service Awards

• Enhanced paternity and maternity

• Free life insurance

• Enhanced Sick Pay Scheme

• Access to Perkbox with a variety of discounts including a monthly freebie from Greggs or Café Nero

• Discounted eggs and chicken

• A Celebration day after 1 years service enjoy an extra day off to celebrate a life event, such as your birthday

• Access to DigiCare + - Annual Health Check, Digital GP Consultations, Nutritional Consultations, Second Health Opinion and Mental Health Consultations.

• Discounted Gym Memberships

• Free Eye Test every two years

• Discounted mobile phone contracts

• Share in our success with the People Partnership - after 6 months service you will be eligible for a yearly bonus

• Additional Allowances for First Aiders and Mental Health First Aiders

• Wellness programme

• Employee Charity Matching Scheme

If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment.