Senior Financial Controller

Senior Financial Controller (salary competitive/ dependent on experience) Gloucestershire Fixed Term 12-month contract

The Company

FMCG

Role summary

As Senior Financial Controller, you will provide financial decision-making support and to act as finance lead in driving improvements in site performance.

Key Skills

• 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.
• 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.
• Drive improvements in Operational budgeting such as bottom-up resource planning.
• Support in customer profitability analysis.

Personal Profile

• Qualified Accountant with 5+ yrs PQA.
• Proven Experience in FMCG.

For further information, please contact Rhian Mountjoy

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