Senior Finance Analyst

About the position

We are looking for a Senior Finance Analyst to join our Nordic Commercial Finance team based in Malmö.

This is a broad finance role with exposure across several areas of the Nordic P&L. You will combine strong financial analysis with ownership of key finance processes, helping the organization understand performance and translate financial insights into actions.

The role will work closely with Commercial Finance, Sales, FP&A and other Finance teams across the Nordics. You will develop a strong understanding of the key drivers of our business and play an important role in ensuring robust financial management, accurate reporting and effective decision support.

The role builds on the existing analyst responsibilities around analysis, forecasting, controls and month-end activities. Your key responsibilities will be the following:

Finance process and performance management:

• Own and oversee selected areas of the Nordic P&L, developing a detailed understanding of the underlying performance drivers.
• Analyse actual performance versus budget, forecast and prior year and clearly explain key variances.
• Provide insightful monthly financial analysis and commentary to Finance and commercial stakeholders.
• Develop relevant KPIs and analysis to improve visibility of business performance.
• Partner with Sales and other Commercial teams to support fact-based decision-making.
• Play an active role in the Nordic forecasting, budget and strategic planning processes.
• Work closely with the Commercial Finance team to identify risks and opportunities and improve forecast accuracy.
• Support preparation of management presentations and financial performance reviews.
• Take end-to-end ownership of selected Nordic finance processes and continuously look for opportunities to simplify, standardize and improve them.
• Coordinate recurring finance activities across relevant stakeholders and ensure agreed timelines and quality standards are met.
• Support month-end and year-end closing activities for the areas under responsibility.
• Review financial data, accruals and provisions to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Work collaboratively with FP&A and Shared Finance teams.

Controls and governance

• Maintain a strong control environment across the processes under responsibility.
• Prepare and execute relevant SOX controls and ensure appropriate documentation.
• Support internal and external audit requirements.
• Ensure compliance with company financial policies and procedures.
• Help identify process or control weaknesses and drive remediation and continuous improvement.

About You

To be considered for the role, you will have to demonstrate the following:

• Bachelor or Graduate Finance degree
• Previous experience of working in a fast-paced finance team (ideally in a Commercial Finance team)
• Experience of managing trade spend, and variance analysis, plus KPI reporting.
• Good Financial analysis experience – you’re used to working with large volume of data and managing large data sets.
• Good communication and written skills with the ability to engage people at all levels, with the ability to influence business and finance colleagues.
• Constructively challenge assumptions and thinking

What we offer you

We’re on an exceptional adventure and can offer a truly purpose led career with flexibility. In addition, you will benefit from the below:

• An ambitious employer with recognized brands and growth potential
• The potential to progress your career across different areas of Birds Eye and Nomad Foods
• A culture where your part of a team, where you feel encouraged to make a difference.

This is a great time to join us! Birds Eye, owned by Nomad Foods, is the UK's/Ireland’s no.1 branded frozen food company and is comprised of the Birds Eye, Goodfella's, Aunt Bessie's and Green Cuisine brands. Selling its first products in 1946, we have been providing high-quality frozen food for generations, and our iconic portfolio of fish, vegetable and chicken products now also includes a meat-free range, pizzas and roast joints and accompaniments. 2024 marks 100 years since our founder, Clarence Birdseye, invented the process behind frozen food as we know it today and we are immensely proud of our heritage as we continue to endeavour to serve the nation with better food, promoting the nutritional benefits and convenience of frozen food and the role it plays in helping reduce food waste.

At Nomad Foods we're proud to represent the world we serve by hiring diverse talent. Our inclusive culture is all about what we can achieve together.

Last day to apply is on the 18th of October. We look forward to receiving your application.