Financial Controller - Commercial

We're Hiring: Financial Controller-Commercial

Location: Market Drayton / Hybrid - 3 days per week on site.

Contract: Full-Time, Permanent

Hours: Monday-Friday (40 hours)

Benefits for the role:

Competitive salary, generous annual bonus, Life Assurance, Company car or cash allowance, Private Medical Insurance, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (rising with service), Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Family Leave, Enhanced Bereavement Leave, Pension Employer Contribution Scheme (matched up to 8%), Exclusive access to Müller Rewards, offering a variety of online and in-store discounts and development opportunities.

With over 31,000 employees across Europe and a long-standing commitment to excellence, Müller is a family-owned business known for its dedication to quality, innovation, and growth. In the UK alone, we produce a wide range of leading branded and private-label dairy products, from yogurts and desserts to butter and flavoured milk.

If you are 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 Financial Controller-Commercial position.

As Financial Controller-Commercial, you will operate as Finance lead & Number 2 to the Finance Director managing the revenue of a +£0.5BN company and to act as Co-Pilot to the Commercial Director covering both Brand and Private Label ensuring that both long and short term commercial & financial targets are met.

What you'll do: -

• Co-pilot the Commercial Director and SLT providing financial insights, support and challenge on key commercial topics to ensure sustainable profitable growth of the business.
• Deputise for the Finance Director on an ad-hoc basis and support in delivery of key projects
• Delivery of the in-year monthly top line financial forecast and risks and opportunities ensuring we have the plans to deliver the annual budget
• Provide value added reporting on top line performance, clearly identifying key drivers and effectively communicating with key stakeholders
• Lead the end-to-end commercial bottom-up budget build for the next year (Year 1 of Strategy Plan)
• Finance lead on Private Label contract negotiations and tenders, making clear recommendations on future cost prices.
• Finance lead supporting Branded Sales team on joint customer business plans.
• Management of the commercial month end close. Owner of the balance sheet liability for trade accruals. Key point of contact for the external audit.
• Responsible for commercial sign off, ensuring compliance with internal policies
• Focus on process and system development within Commercial Finance to drive greater efficiency and to enable improved effectiveness in terms of planning and reporting.

• General management of direct reports including 1:1's, PDPs and objective setting.
• Nurture and develop talent and support individuals with development plans.
• Drive engagement through delivering EOS action plan.

What you'll bring: -

• Qualified Accountant with 10+ years experience
• Commercial finance experience is essential along with broader experience across the Finance discipline, notably within both financial and management accounting.
• Experience within FMCG or Manufacturing required.
• Commercially minded, strong business partner.
• Into the detail, but also ability to make "complex simple".
• Strong leader, able to inspire, equip and enable others
• Strong willed - comfortable having the tough conversations.
• Can manage and influence upwards and challenge the status quo.
• Experience in managing large teams of qualified accountants
• Continuous improvement mentality

The Process

If you have the skills and experience in the above areas and would like to be considered for this role, please apply at

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