Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller

Senior Financial Controller – 12 Month Fixed Term

Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Severnside • United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • 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 challenging local site performance
  • Coordinate and facilitate the detailed budget and forecasting process of the site, including explaining business impacts to Internal, Functional and Group colleagues
  • Evaluate and continuously review investment opportunities for the site and support wider team in reviewing network design options
  • Support SKU / Product Family rationalisation opportunities (within / across sites)
  • Provide robust financial modelling and systems solutions to new business opportunities across all manufacturing 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 that information is presented in a standard and professional manner
  • Lead site finance team and work collaboratively with the Central Finance team (and other functions) to ensure financial systems / reports are updated timely

Requirements

  • 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 leadership team
  • Team player, but capable of working on own initiative, developing skills in new areas
  • Be able to demonstrate MMI core values
Benefits
  • Great benefits
  • Exciting challenges
  • Opportunities for career growth

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
financial controlinventory managementbalance sheet managementfinancial analysisKPI metricsbudgetingfinancial modelingcosting modelscustomer profitability analysisforecasting
Soft skills
communication skillsteam managementinfluencingself-starterbusiness partneringinitiativecollaborationleadershipproblem-solvingadaptability
Certifications
Qualified Accountant