Senior Financial Controller

Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller S.e.c.s.; SHREWSBURY; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading dairy brand in the UK is seeking a Senior Financial Controller for a 12-month fixed term position. You will be responsible for providing financial decision-making support, ensuring optimized budgets and capital investments, as well as acting as a business partner to the Head of Manufacturing. This role offers a hybrid working model with three days on-site. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in finance, particularly within the FMCG sector, and will be a qualified accountant.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Hybrid working model

Comprehensive benefits package

Qualifications

• 5+ years post-qualification experience (PQA).
• Ability to operate at all levels in the organization.
• Self-starter with strong business partnering skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial decision-making support and act as finance lead.
• Ensure budgets, capital investments, and plans are optimized.
• Develop and maintain financial control systems.

Skills

Qualified Accountant

Proven Experience in FMCG

Excellent communication skills

Ability to manage and influence

Experience managing a team

Education

Qualified Accountant

Job description

Title: Senior Financial Controller-12 month fixed term

City: Severnside

Department: Finance & Tax

Location: Severnside, ENG, GB, GL10 2DG

Who we are

We’re Müller UK & Ireland, a family-run dairy business and we’re experts at what we do. Dairy is a key part of a healthy and balanced diet and we’re super proud to help meet the nutritional needs of millions of people, every, single, day. To do this, our business has been split into two areas: Müller Milk & Ingredients (MMI) and Müller Yogurt & Desserts (MYD).

Join MMI and step into a culture that’s fast-paced and full of opportunity. With great benefits, exciting challenges, a dream team of people, this is your chance to make a real impact.

Over here, we’re processing enough milk to make 66 billion cups of tea every year. And we’re so much more than just milk. This is the place to come for cream, butter, milk drinks and ingredients products (a lot, we know), all made from milk from over 1,000 supplying farmers in Britain.

Milk flows through everything at Müller – from farm to factory to fridge. But the true impact comes from our people, in each and every corner of the business, working hard and as a team to put smiles on faces everywhere, making each day delicious for our shoppers.

As the UK's most popular dairy brand, we’re always striving to make a real difference for our planet, our partners and our people, making sure we're helping to create a more sustainable dairy future.We’re growing to keep up with the millions of people reaching for our branded and private label products on shelves everywhere. Join a culture full of pace that’s bold and entrepreneurial, with opportunities that are yours for the taking – and even enjoy every benefit and bonus to sweeten the deal.

Location: Location is flexible on a hybrid working model-3 days per week on site.

Contract: Full-Time, 12 month fixed term

Hours: Monday–Friday (40 hours)

Are you ready to unleash your potential and build an exciting career with Britian’s most chosen dairy brand? Müller UK & Ireland, part of the renowned Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller, invites you to apply for our Senior Financial Controller for a fixed term of 12 months.

AsSenior Financial Controller,you will provide financial decision-making support and to act as finance lead in driving improvements in site performance. You will ensure site budgets, capital investments and three-year plans are optimised and to act as business partner to the Head of Manufacturing.

Your challenge for the Senior Financial Controller:

• Hold the Fiduciary responsibility for all materials, and assets owned by the company on the site.
• Develop, and maintain a system of financial control, which adheres to the company’s policies and procedures, and which allows for the Fiduciary responsibility to be properly performed.
• Ensure correct recording of all types of inventories (R&M, Milk, Ingredients etc) held on site within the company’s financial systems.
• Ownership of site balance sheet.
• Ensure accurate recording of materials consumption within the company’s financial systems, and ensure the financial systems accurately report site usage, wastage and other variances.
• Bridge financially the sites reported performance to the prior period and forecasts.
• Support Commercial teams with new Tenders.
• Manage, maintain and review the Bill of Materials and other product costing models for products manufactured by the site, and implementing updates of product costing models and BOMs to maintain their accuracy.
• Close the books for the site each month - ensure the management accounts accurately report sites income and expenditures and closing balance sheet.
• Provide the site management team and MMI leadership with clear, timely and accurate analysis, and explanations of the financial impact of performance.
• Drive and manage standardized financial based KPI metrics for the site and report these to the site management team and MMI leadership on daily/ weekly/ monthly cycles.
• Provide explanation of site milk costs on a monthly basis.
• Report site financial operational performance ensuring accurate and clear reporting to the site leadership.
• Review and drive improvements in site forecasting and performance metrics.
• Act as business partner to the local site manager, ensuring independence is maintained.
• Independently support line manager / senior manufacturing team in identifying and challenginglocal site performance.
• Coordinate and facilitate the detailed budget and forecasting process of the site, includingexplaining business impacts to Internal, Functional and Group colleagues.
• Evaluate and continuously review investment opportunities for the site and support wider team inreviewing network design options.
• Support SKU / Product Family rationalisation opportunities (within / across sites).
• Provide robust financial modelling and systems solutions to new business opportunities across allmanufacturing processes of the site.
• Drive improvements in Operational budgeting such as bottom-up resource planning.
• Support in customer profitability analysis.
• Act with the other controllers as a single team presenting consistent reports across all sites so thatinformation is presented in a standard and professional manner.
• Lead site finance team and work collaboratively with the Central Finance team (and otherfunctions) to ensure financial systems / reports are updated timely.

Key skills & experience for the Senior Financial Controller:

• Qualified Accountant with 5+ yrs PQA.
• Proven Experience in FMCG.
• Ability to operate at all levels.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to manage and influence.
• Experience managing a team.
• Self-starter with the ability to business partner and influence decision making within site leadershipteam.
• Team player, but capable of working on own initiative, developing skills in new areas.
• Be able to demonstrate MMI core values.

The Process

If you have the skills and experience in the above areas and would like to be considered for this role, pleaseapply at www.mullercareers.co.uk

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