Little Moons are frozen and chilled mochi, a fusion of Eastern and Western cuisine – soft and chewy rice flour dough wrapped around balls of ice cream, cheesecake, or chocolate ganache to create a distinctive, bite-sized, and delicious dessert that’s bursting with flavour.

Their rollout across Europe has been pioneered by sister and brother duo Vivien and Howard Wong, who founded Little Moons in 2010.  The product’s roots are in high-end restaurants, but over the last five years retail packs have swept the ice cream category in grocery and food service.

Little Moons has rapidly established mochi, and snacking ice cream, across Europe. In 2024 we generated more than £60m revenue, and in 2025 we continue to drive towards double digit growth.

We are very proud of the culture that we have built at Little Moons. Not to stroke our own egos, but we are a great bunch of people—smart, passionate, interesting, and funny—who work hard to support and live our values, all the while keeping our mission in our forethoughts.

The Role:

In this role, you will collaborate closely with the operations team, supporting a broad range of functions including Production, Purchasing, Logistics, Engineering, Capital Investment, and Innovation. You will play a key role in delivering crucial insights through weekly operational reporting, monthly management reporting, quarterly reforecasting, and the annual planning process. Additionally, you’ll be involved in model building, overheads management, and driving process improvements.

Day-to-day, you’ll be responsible for ensuring all operational reports are produced and distributed promptly and accurately. You’ll confidently analyse and explain key figures, variances, and trends, providing clear insights into movements compared to previous periods. This is a great opportunity to make a real impact within a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Support the Operations Finance Manager to ensure accurate and timely weekly & monthly reporting and analysis, including risk and opportunity, on:

Departmental Labour & materials reporting

Departmental overheads

Cost of goods sold (COGS)Stock balances and valuations

Purchases

Capital expenditure, depreciation, and the fixed asset register

  • Support with the operations monthly & quarterly reforecast and annual strategic planning process:

Covering all expenditure across all departments

Provide robust challenge to the budget/ forecast

Ensure understanding of risk and opportunity to forecast

  • Being actively involved in the Innovation & NPD Costing process and Master data

Finance Business Partnering the Innovation & NPD teams

Ownership forecasting new product costings and challenge operations and commercial team on accuracy and feasibility

  • Having a mindset for continuous improvement and automation

Assisting the Operations Finance team in building various excel models

Continuously review business practices to make recommendations for changes which will enhance cost efficiency.

Aiming to narrow down the window of monthly reporting to enable time spent on value adding instead of transactional activities.

  • Support the Operations Finance Manager and Finance Director in

Month end process and timelines

Month end submissions to finance

Accruals

Purchase order and supplier invoices and payments

Payables and ledger queries

Identify, challenge, and proactively satisfy internal customer requirements to provide information, interpretation and insight to the business and site teams to promote effective delivery of site performance.

  • Contribute to the business’ Sustainability strategy by delivering your Brighter Future Sustainability objectives, and supporting your direct report to deliver theirs

Essential Requirements:

  • Qualified or Part qualified in an accounting qualification or equivalent experience
  • Previous experience in an FMCG/manufacturing environment
  • Experience working with financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, CAPEX and cost analysis.
  • Advanced Excel skills and experience working with ERP systems, SAGE preferential. 
  • Excellent organisational skills and ability to multi-task

Benefits of working here:

We will provide you with as much support, guidance, and training as you need, and offer the below benefits to boot:

  • Medicash, Private Health Scheme & Life Insurance
  • Enhanced New Baby Leave available
  • We understand that mental health matters. We partner with Health Assured to provide remote emotional support to team members
  • Discretionary annual bonus based on personal & company performance
  • Paid sick leave
  • Respect, trust, and honesty. Personal and professional maturity is important to us, and we keep each other honest
  • Your holidays – We believe in finding your work-life alignment and encourage all staff to use their 25 days, plus public holidays
  • Additional days off with long service
  • Team volunteer days

To be engaged, you must feel included and valued, so we have built, and nurtured, a culture where inclusiveness is not a buzzword, but a way of being.

Our approach to diversity is simple —it’s about embracing everyone, and everyone is welcome at Little Moons.   We are committed to welcoming everyone, regardless of gender identity, orientation or expression.   We are diverse in age, race, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and perspective. Our diversity fuels our innovation, bring diversity of thought, and connects us closer to our customers and the communities we serve.

All applicants must have the right to work in the United Kingdom.

To apply please click on the link: Senior Operations Finance Analyst – Little Moons – Applied