Senior Financial Controller - Manufacturing

Müller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller which employs over 31,000 people throughout Europe. In the UK, Müller develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from 1,300 farmers in Britain.Müller is ranked within the top 20 in The Grocer’s Top 100 list of Britain’s Biggest Brands and is picked from shelves millions of times each year. Müller UK & Ireland includes:

Müller Milk & Ingredients which aims to be Britain’s private label dairy leader and produces branded and private label fresh milk, cream, butter and ingredients products. It boasts a network of dairies and depots servicing customers throughout the country.

Müller Yogurt & Desserts which is the UK’s leading yogurt manufacturer which aims to create millions more Müller moments for its consumers. It is responsible for major brands like Müller Corner, Müllerlight, Müller Bliss, Müller Rice, FRijj and Müller Kefir Smoothie and produces chilled desserts under licence from Mondelez International. It also supplies the UK private label yogurt market from a dedicated, state of the art yogurt facility.

We are recruiting for a Senior Financial Controller (home based) to provide financial decision making support to the dairies and to act as finance lead in driving improvements in dairies performance. This role will ensure site budget and capital investments are optimised and to act as business partner to the Heads of Manufacturing and site teams.

Please note this role will require some travel between our Manufacturing sites.

Key Responsibilities:

• Management of the Site Finance Business Partners across our MMI Network
• Responsible for the management and development of the white milk and cream site finance business partners
• Drive consistency and standardisation in ways of working across all sites and drive synergies in completion of month end
• Build effective collaboration and sharing of best practice among the site finance business partners
• Act as deputy of Head of Controlling: Manufacturing where required

Costing / Reporting

• Support Commercial teams with new tenders - ensuring costings provided are robust, transparent and key cost drivers are understood
• Ensure adherence to group standard costing methodology
• Oversee the month end process for the white milk and cream sites, ensuring that the management accounts accurately report sites income and expenditures and closing balance sheet
• To provide the site management team and MMI leadership with clear, timely and accurate analysis, and explanations of the financial impact of performance

Operational Performance:

• Ensure accurate and clear reporting to site leadership across all sites
• Review and drive improvements in white milk and cream forecasting
• Support sites to deliver on functional targets
• Drive and management standardised financial based KPI metrics for sites, reporting to site management teams and MMI leadership on daily/weekly/monthly cycles

Strategy Development

• Co-ordinate and facilitate detailed budget and forecasting process of white milk and cream sites
• Work with site finance business partners and site teams to review investment opportunities for sites
• Support SKU/Product Family rationalisation opportunities
• Provide robust financial modelling and systems solutions to new business opportunities across all manufacturing processes
• Support adhoc delivery of projects both for wider manufacturing and controlling teams

Continuous Improvement

• Work collaboratively with other parts of Controlling Function and wider business
• Build relations with Group colleagues to support implementation of group standards
• Identify areas for improvement in reporting and where necessary influence key stakeholders to implement

About you

• Qualified Accountant with 5+ years PQA

• Proven experience in FMCG and managing a team
• Track record of driving continuous improvement
• Ability to work in a fast-paced complex environment, proactively responding to changing requirements
• Ability to work cross functionally with ability to bring other (non-financial) teams along a journey
• Excellent risk assessment and prioritisation skills
• Accuracy and attention to detail

The Process:

If you are a self-starter with the ability to business partner and influence decision making within the site leadership team, we would love to hear from you. Please apply via: www.mullercareers.co.uk

Contact Details:

F.A.O. UK Recruitment, Müller UK & Ireland, Shrewsbury Road, Market Drayton, Shropshire, TF9 3SQ