Finance Manager

About The Role

Join the Samworth Brothers Team and become part of our dynamic family! At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations.

• Enhanced pension scheme
• जाग Private health scheme
• Employee discount scheme
• Experience annual pay reviews
• Profit related pay
• Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities

As Finance Manager, you’ll work closely with operational and commercial leaders to embed strong financial disciplines, improve understanding of site performance and support continuous improvement. This is a hands‑on, influential role requiring strong analytical capability and the confidence to challenge and influence at senior level.

This is a high‑profile role sitting on the Site Management Leadership Team, reporting to the Head of Operations Finance, with a strong dotted line into the Site Director. You’ll be a true business partner to operations, providing financial insight, challenge and leadership to drive sustainable performance improvement.

• Lead and challenge budgeting, forecasting and period‑end processes for the site
• Act as a key financial business partner to the Site Leadership Team
• Drive cost control across overheads, labour and manufacturing performance
• Support and challenge product costing and standards in partnership with Commercial Finance
• Lead and support business improvement initiatives and key site projects
• Develop and lead a small on‑site finance team

We believe that success is built upon collaboration and diverse perspectives. At Samworth Brothers, we welcome candidates who are passionate about working together to achieve greatness. As a valued member of our team, you will bring the following skills and experience:

• Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent)
• Proven experience in manufacturing and/or FMCG environments
• Strong background in operational and commercial finance
• Experienced in driving business improvement and change initiatives
• Confident influencing and challenging senior stakeholders
• Commercially astute, analytical and solutions‑focused
• A collaborative leader with strong people‑management skills

We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role.

Join us at Samworth Brothers, where you'll be more than just a team member – you'll be an integral part of our thriving family.
Apply today and embark on an exciting journey with us!

We are a fourth-generation family business producing high quality own‑label products for many of the UK’s best-known retailers along with our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris, Urban Eat, West Cornwall Pasty Company and Walker & Son. We employ over 10,000 people in well‑invested modern food manufacturing sites around the country.

At Samworth Brothers we take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.