Head of Supply Chain Finance

Head of Supply Chain Finance

Rainham, Essex
Reporting to: CFO

Frive stands for Food to Thrive - we help busy people thrive not only because our meals are healthy, balanced and made with 100% whole foods/ natural ingredients, but also because they’re ready to heat and eat in minutes - saving you an hour a day, or up to 7 hours a week, for what matters most.

We're the UK's highest-rated meal prep brand, with over 20 million meals delivered, and we’re just getting started.

Now we’re looking for a new IT Operations Lead to keep everything running in our Rainham Factory.

We work with people from all different backgrounds and communities and recognise our own biases. We strive to create a strong sense of belonging and believe we will be better equipped to achieve our goals by building a team that approaches problems from different angles, using different perspectives and experiences to solve problems. All qualified applicants will be considered and we have no regard for age, ethnicity, ability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, nationality, race, religion, or sexual orientation the more the merrier, and together we can achieve greatness.

To make healthy eating convenient, delicious and accessible, whilst championing locally sourced and organic ingredients.

To inspire a global shift towards a healthier society by changing eating habits and restoring food to its purest form.

• Take Ownership: We make independent decisions with confidence and ownership
• Be Transparent: We share information openly and with intention
• Communicate Openly: We communicate directly and honestly
• Deliver High Performance: We foster an environment that attracts, retains, and rewards high performance
• Be Agile: We encourage flexibility in our people by reducing blockers and prioritising their creativity and productivity

This is a Senior Finance Leadership role owning the financial performance of our fully in-house manufacturing, warehousing and fulfilment operation.

We are migrating from our current bespoke, custom built ERP onto SAP S/4

HANA and expanding into a new factory, this role sits at the centre of our most critical transformation programme. You will be the CFO’s right-hand person inside operations, ensuring Frive scales profitably, with accurate costing, stock and margin visibility.

The role is designed to grow, with scope to build and lead a team as volumes, SKUs and sites increase.

• To ensure Frive can scale production profitably by delivering:
• True, real-time meal-level cost and margin visibility
• Tight financial control of labour, ingredients, waste and overheads
• A successful transition onto SAP S/4
  
  HANA
• Financial leadership through Frive’s factory relocation and capacity expansion

• Own the full P&L for Frive’s in-house factory, warehousing and fulfilment.
• Act as the CFO’s embedded finance leader in operations.
• Drive accountability for:
• Ingredient usage and yield
• Portion control
• Labour productivity
• Waste, rework and spoilage
• Overhead absorption

• Own all recipes, BOMs, portion sizes, routings and standard costs.
• Ensure SAP reflects true production reality.
• Lead material, labour, yield and overhead variance analysis.
• Protect and improve gross margin as Frive scales.

• Translate demand into labour, ingredient and line capacity plans.
• Own factory budgets and rolling forecasts.
• Build capex and ROI models for automation, new lines and equipment.
• Support new product and recipe launches with robust cost data.

• Be the Operations Finance lead for Frive’s move to SAP S/4
  
  HANA.
• Own all factory and supply chain master data: BOMs, routings, WIP, inventory, cost centres.
• Ensure accurate costing, stock valuation and margin reporting in the new system.
• Work closely with IT, operations and implementation partners through design, UAT, go-live and stabilisation.
• Manage financial risk during dual-running and cut-over from the legacy ERP.

• Financial lead on Frive’s factory move and scale-up.
• Own business cases, capex, start-up costs and ramp-up economics.
• Manage…