Controls and compliance analyst

AB Agri Ltd; King's Lynn; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

AB Agri Ltd is hiring a Compliance and Controls Analyst to join the finance team in Kings Lynn/Peterborough on a fixed term maternity cover of 14 months. You will work with the Finance Director and regional teams to strengthen financial governance and control processes across the business.

Key duties include leading controls improvement projects, monitoring compliance, driving efficiencies, and advising on ERP improvements to support the control environment and cost savings.

Qualifications

• Experience with financial controls and governance frameworks.
• AAT part-qualified or fully qualified.
• A-Level standard or equivalent education.

Responsibilities

• Lead controls improvement projects, ensuring coordination and consistency across regions.
• Monitor compliance and drive continuous improvements in controls.
• Identify and implement process improvements within the finance department to save costs.
• Analyse and recommend improvements to ERP and financial systems to support business and control requirements.
• Oversee balance sheet reconciliations, reviews, and inventory counts to ensure robust controls.

Skills

Financial controls

Governance frameworks

Education

AAT part-qualified or fully qualified

A-Level standard or equivalent

Job description

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title: Compliance and Controls Analyst

Location: Kings Lynn/Peterborough

Contract type and shift : Fixed term contract/maternity cover 14 months

Package includes : Salary from £35,000 plus a benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and reward your impact, including discretionary performance related bonus, car allowance, private healthcare, and a matched pension contribution of up to 10%

Join a collaborative finance team where you will work closely with the Finance Director and regional finance teams to lead controls and compliance activities. This is an excellent opportunity to drive continuous improvement, strengthen financial governance, and play a key role in ensuring robust control processes across the business.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead controls improvement projects, ensuring coordination and consistency across regions.
• Play a key role in controls, monitoring compliance and driving continuous improvements.
• Identify and implement process improvements within the finance department to improve efficiency, strengthen controls, and deliver cost savings.
• Analyse and recommend improvements to ERP and financial systems to better support business and control requirements.
• Oversee compliance with reporting frameworks and controls, ensuring key financial processes such as balance sheet reconciliations, reviews, and inventory counts are completed effectively.

What you'll bring:

• Experience with financial controls and governance frameworks.
• AAT part-qualified or fully qualified.
• Educated to A-Level standard or equivalent relevant experience.

Where growth meets purpose

What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that's because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together, we're shaping a world where responsible nutrition is accessible to all. With a big goal comes equally big opportunities to make a career that truly feels like your own. As a team we're collaborative, purpose-driven and encourage trying new ideas. We also find ways to nourish your individual journey, so everyone can feel proud of the difference that they make in their own way.

We're thrilled to share that AB Agri has been recognised as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025. This is a proud moment for us all. It highlights the real progress we've made to build a workplace that is inclusive, supportive, and fair for everyone. Over the last 5 years we have rebuilt our talent management practices, from inclusive hiring, to transparent pay frameworks, flexible work, and the momentum of our Employee Network Groups. Our actions are embedding inclusion at the heart of how we operate and creating a culture where people can be themselves

As a Disability Confident employer, we're committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.

About The Company

Rewarding your Passion

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits - these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

About us

Germains Seed Technology's mission is to maximise nature's potential by using its seed technology processing know-how and deep expertise to unlock the genetic potential of seeds for food production. At a time when pressure on land, water and resources is greater than at any time in human history, Germains exists to help our customers maximise the productivity and cost-effectiveness of their crops. Our team of around 200 people work across the USA, Europe and the UK.

We're part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we're passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.