Hotel Chocolat has built a strong position as the UK’s favourite premium chocolate brand and continues to grow rapidly, with a range extending from luxury giftable chocolates to alcohol, coffee and our pioneering drinking chocolate system, the Velvetiser™. We’re multi-category, multi-channel, and multi territory, always with the customer, and our direct connection with them, at the heart. Our mission is to make people happy through chocolate. Customer, colleagues, cacao farmers and suppliers can all benefit from the success we create together.

To support our ongoing growth, we’re looking for a Manufacturing Finance Manager to join our Finance team on a permanent basis. Here at Hotel Chocolat, we've adopted a hybrid working pattern where appropriate. This role will be between our sites at Huntingdon and St Neots with the ability of working from home up to two days a week.

Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager for our UK Operations, you will be partnering with the Manufacturing Operations teams, responsible for ensuring the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of all financial transactions and reporting relating to Hotel Chocolat’s manufacturing function.

SHOW US HOW ITS DONE

• Ensuring timely and effective delivery of all Manufacturing financial processes, reporting and analysis including;
  • Reporting and investigating production variances to standard, including reporting and variance analysis to budgets and Prior Year.
  • Overheads-Ownership of manufacturing-based cost centres.
  • Month End - Preparing and posting journals and Balance sheet reconciliations.
  • Preparing Yearly Budget & Rolling Forecasting.
  • Reporting on Tactical Capex Projects, including ROI.

• Developing strong business partnering relationships with the Operations team to further enhance insight and challenge/support the business on operational KPIs.
• Developing and maintaining the financial control and reporting of the standard costing processes.
• Collaborating with all manufacturing functions to analyse costings for NPD Projects.
• Driving process and system improvements for stock movements and standard costing.
• Supporting with auditor queries as part of the year end audit.

WHO YOU ARE & WHAT YOU HAVE

• Great communication skills to interact with all levels across the business.
• High attention to detail combined with focused energy and an appetite for change.
• You can work with and analyse high volumes of data and summarise key messages to drive business decisions.
• Strong systems knowledge to improve processes and controls, successfully working with cross functional teams through change.
• Advanced Excel skills

Desirable

• Food Manufacturing Experience
• CIMA Full/Part Qualified.

WORKING AT HOTEL CHOCOLAT

You’ll play a vital role within a constantly evolving company, in a friendly and energetic workplace. Every single person who works for us has the opportunity to study for our highly respected Chocolate Diploma. Staff perks include an unlimited 50% discount on all our products, as well as 70% off the rate card price for you and your guests when you stay at the Hotel Chocolat – our hideaway on the paradise island of Saint Lucia, set among the cocoa trees of our historic Rabot Estate.

At Hotel Chocolat, we treat each other with respect, equality and grace. Our mantra? Be brave. Be kind.

This People Pledge is underpinned by our values of Originality, Authenticity and Ethics.

We encourage new ideas and fresh thinking and for each of you to bring your ORIGINALITY to work.

We want you to be your AUTHENTIC self – and feel comfortable to share your differences, and what makes you unique. 

Our commitment to being an ETHICAL business means we have a deep sense of fairness when it comes to the way we treat one another.

This applies during our recruitment process too. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer who positively celebrates a diverse and inclusive culture. We welcome people from all walks of life to join us, bringing their individuality to help us reach our ambitious growth plans. We believe this is critically important to help us create a place to work where everyone feels like they belong, can be themselves and where all of our differences are celebrated.