Financial Reporting Manager- BPI- Hybrid
BPI
Published
October 29, 2022
Location
Greenock, United Kingdom
Category
Default  
Job Type
Region
- Greenock
Sector
Industry and Commerce
Specialism
Financial Leadership and Control

Description

The Company

BPI, part of Berry Global, manufactures an extensive range of flexible packaging films that help to protect, secure and enhance a wide variety of products across many different markets. The company is one of Europe’s largest recyclers of polyethylene films and also produces Sustane, its own range of polymers made from recycled plastics. BPI’s commitment to sustainability, innovation and excellence drives the business to ensure it delivers the packaging solutions that customers and consumers demand. RPC BPI has eleven major UK sites and a Head Office function based at Greenock, Inverclyde. The turnover for the UK business is circa £400m with the wider business totaling $1bn globally.

BPI recycles plastics at its state-of-the-art recycling centres across Europe. The types of waste plastic BPI handles can be grouped into three classes - industrial waste, packaging waste and agricultural waste.

Products & Markets

Serving a broad range of markets is a testament to BPI’s extensive product portfolio range. The business is customer focused, delivering value added solutions to the most demanding packaging needs.  The markets BPI supplies can be put into the following 6 categories:

Agri-horticulture Products

BPI is the 'go to' supplier for some of Europe's largest brands, providing agricultural stretch wrap, silage sheet and polytunnel films.

Chemicals

Offering the most comprehensive and high-performance packaging range for chemical applications. BPI have extensive experience of delivering bags, sheet, tubes or something more bespoke for VFFS, FFS and other complex packing lines.

Construction

The company is one of Europe’s leading packaging suppliers for construction packaging. BPI produces high quality and innovative products, including; pallet protection and insulation that are both strong and durable.

Consumer Products

Its wide range of flexible consumer packaging solutions ensures brand and sustainability prominence on a crowded shelf, ranging from printed, unprinted, sheet, bag, tubular film or at times, more technical items.

Food & Beverage

BPI is the packaging innovation leaders for the food and beverage sector, offering the most advanced packaging films possible for the most demanding uses.

Industrial Products

Manufacturing products for a range of industrial packaging applications, from pallet protection, bagging or tubular films.

Sustainability Mission

At BPI, sustainability moves beyond care for the environment, and encompasses care for employees, as well as care for the communities in which it operates. This means being a good partner and a corporate steward, focused on leaving the world in a better state than how BPI found it.

BPI has set some significant targets in order to ensure it delivers on commitments to protect both its people and the planet. By focusing these commitments under 5 key pillars of; people, environment, product, supply chain and community, BPI ensures to deliver them over next few years.

The most important and substantive goals BPI has set are:

  • have zero accidents amongst all of its staff, its contractors and visitors to sites and premises
  • To produce only 100% recyclable products by 2023
  • To reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 25% by 2025 (vs 2016/17 baseline)
  • To reduce energy and water consumption by 1% per annum
  • Achieve zero waste to landfill across its operations

To watch a short video on BPI’s mission please click here.

Background to the opportunity

As BPI continues to grow, with an even greater focus on sustainability, the company is looking to appoint a Financial Reporting Manager.  The role has become vacant as the result of a recent internal promotion.

This is a key position within a large-scale business with a genuine focus on sustainability and a track record of retaining high performing employees. The successful individual will be joining a company that is able to boast a very high level of employee retention. It is crucial that the appointed candidate is a proven finance manager with the ability to lead and develop a team, and willing to implement best practice from other roles they have taken on in their career to date.

The appointed individual will support the Group Controller and must be eager to develop positive working relationships with site Finance Directors, in addition to managing their team. The Financial Reporting Manager will possess excellent communication skills both verbal and written.

The Role

The Financial Reporting Manager will lead the Financial Reporting team, consisting of 6 qualified and part-qualified/QBEs. The Financial Reporting Manager will take ownership of ensuring month end reporting deadlines are met, managing the external audit process and play an active role in process improvement.

Working for our Group Controller, this role will be an integral part of the Financial Reporting team. The main accountabilities of this role are as follows:

  • Lead and drive the financial reporting team to ensure they deliver a first-class service to the business
  • Deliver the month and year end reporting processes to the Group’s timetable
  • Engage with stakeholders to build closer working relationships with the Financial Reporting team and support the operational finance functions with the businesses
  • Work with the Group Controller on group reporting requirements which will include audits and tax support
  • Ensure application and maintenance of the SOX reporting environment
  • Ensure that all internal control policies and procedures are followed
  • Promote an environment of continuous improvement which will include a review of all processes and reporting requirements
  • Ensure that all employees are developed to promote career development

The Individual

The Financial Reporting Manager should have significant financial accounting experience preferably within a large environment. The ideal candidate will have proven experience of leading a financial reporting team where they have developed excellent people management skills. Attention to detail, accuracy and ability to think creatively and independently are critical within this position.

Key candidate requirements are as follows:

  • An experienced and appropriately qualified accountant (ideally CA/ACA) with a proven track record of success within a similar, challenging role
  • A dynamic, driven and proactive finance professional who thrives in a fast-paced business with strict reporting deadlines
  • A proven track record in leading financial reporting teams
  • Demonstrable experience of process improvement and implementing financial controls
  • Willing to take ownership for the external audit process
  • A strong relationship builder who can gain buy-in from the team and site Financial Controllers
  • Experience within manufacturing or working with Sarbanes Oxley is desirable but not critical
  • Experience of Navision and Cognos IT Systems is advantageous

Remuneration

Salary:                              Circa £70,000

Working Model:                Hybrid 50/50 office/home split

Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week with 30 minutes for lunch each day

Core Hours: Between 9:30am - 4:00pm Mon-Thu, 9:30am – 2:30pm Fri

Benefits

Pension: Matched at 7.5%

Holidays: 33 days including bank holidays

Bonus: Up to 4%

Death in Service: 5 * salary, provided opted into pension scheme, otherwise 2 * salary

Private Healthcare: Single cover

Other Benefits: Permanent Health Insurance, 60% of base salary up to age 65 For more information on remuneration please contact Jonathan Donnelly at Rutherford Cross.

For more information on remuneration please contact Jonathan Donnelly at Rutherford Cross.

The Recruitment Process

  • Applications should be sent to Jonathan Donnelly at Rutherford Cross: [email protected]
  • Initial interviews are with our retained advisors at Rutherford Cross
  • First round interviews will involve meeting the Group Controller
  • Second round interviews will involve meeting the Finance Director

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