Senior Finance Business Partner - Agriculture & ISC

Position Title:Senior Finance Business Partner - Agriculture & ISC

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time ​

Requisition ID: 43681 

Senior Agriculture ISC Finance Business Partner

Scarborough

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.

About the role.

Join our Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) Finance Team as a key business partner to the Agriculture Leadership Team.

In this role, you'll be at the heart of how McCain makes smart, data-informed decisions across our agriculture operations. You'll lead and develop our agriculture analysts, helping them grow while shaping how we budget, forecast, and report on agriculture finance.

You'll be the trusted voice in the room, providing sharp financial insight and business intelligence that helps us spot opportunities, quantify risk, and stay ahead of it. Working hand-in-hand with our McCain growers, you'll bring rigorous financial challenge and analysis to the table, helping drive real efficiency across the agriculture business.

If you're someone who loves turning numbers into meaningful decisions, enjoys coaching others, and wants your work to have a direct impact on the farms and fields behind our products, this is a role where you'll genuinely make a difference.

What you’ll be doing.

• Trusted Business Partner — Act as a key advisor to the Agriculture Directors and Finance Agriculture Director, bringing financial insight to the heart of agricultural decision-making.
• People Leadership — Manage and develop an ISC Analyst, helping them grow their skills and career.
• Driving Efficiency — Elevate agriculture finance analysis and reporting by standardising and automating processes, freeing up more time for high-value, strategic work.
• Price Performance Insight — Deliver clear, compelling analysis of potato price variances against budgets and quarterly forecasts, presenting conclusions and action plans within the monthly financial report to keep performance on track.
• Risk & Opportunity Management — Take ownership of a weekly review of agriculture risks and opportunities, recommending practical actions to mitigate exposure.
• Cost & Forecasting Ownership — Lead the annual potato standard cost of goods process and quarterly global forecast submissions.
• Capital Investment Expertise — Bring agricultural finance expertise to the validation, assessment, and post-investment evaluation of capital projects.
• NPD Financial Rigor — Challenge and validate potato cost requirements within New Product Development P&L proposals, ensuring robust financial foundations.
• Cross-Functional Innovation — Partner closely with the Seed department to reinvent and modernise reporting processes, alongside ad-hoc project work as opportunities arise.

What you’ll need to be successful.

• A professional accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent)
• Solid industry experience, with a track record of analysing and reporting on financial performance
• A strong grasp of financial controls, with experience implementing and improving them
• Confidence working across Microsoft Office, with the analytical rigour to match
• A natural ability to build relationships with internal customers and stakeholders at all levels
• Sharp analytical skills — you can interpret financial results and turn numbers into clear, actionable insight
• A problem-solving mindset, comfortable navigating complexity and finding practical solutions
• Excellent verbal and written communication, with the ability to influence and negotiate confidently across the business

Benefits.

Although we do encourage you to taste the goods, you'll be pleased to know we don't pay you in chips. Alongside your salary, you'll enjoy a range of benefits including:

• Private healthcare [single cover]
• Annual bonus scheme based on both company and individual performance with the ability to salary sacrifice into your pension
• Annual car allowance
• An excellent salary sacrifice pension scheme where we'll contribute double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your salary
• 25 days' annual leave from day one plus bank holidays (increasing with service), giving you plenty of time to recharge with the opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days holiday per year
• Life insurance cover providing peace of mind for you and your family
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, because the moments that matter outside of work matter to us too
• Medicash health cash plan, helping you claim money back on everyday healthcare costs, with access to a virtual GP and wellbeing support
• TELUS Health employee and family assistance programme offering full wellbeing support - including a 24/7 confidential counselling line, legal and financial guidance, and a range of employee discounts. 
• Salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme
• A paid 'Chips In' Volunteering Day, giving you the opportunity to support projects that make a positive impact in our communities
• Flexible/hybrid working arrangements where the role allows

And because you're joining a global business, your career opportunities don't stop at the factory gate. Whether you're looking to deepen your expertise, step into leadership, or even explore opportunities internationally, we'll support your growth. With ambitious plans for the future, there's plenty of scope to develop your career with us.

About McCain.

Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.

Leadership principles.

At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.

The McCain experience.

We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.

Our purpose is grounded in building meaningful relationships. We’re big believers in the power of working together in person—it helps us stay connected, collaborate more effectively, and grow as a team. At the same time, we recognize the importance of flexibility. Most office-based roles follow a hybrid model, with the option to work remotely two days a week. There may be exceptions depending on the role and location, so we encourage you to speak with your recruiter for more details.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know  and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions. 

Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here. 

Job Family: Finance

Location(s): GB - United Kingdom : England : Scarborough  

Company: McCain Foods (G.B.) Ltd