Finance Business Partner

TieTalent; Telford; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Müller UK & Ireland seeks an experienced Operations Finance Business Partner for its Telford office. The role will involve providing financial support to the Operations Leadership Team, including reporting, forecasting, and business partnering. Candidates should have CIMA qualifications and experience in FMCG, proficient in SAP.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Bonus scheme

Life Assurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Flexible benefits programme

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills with proven experience in finance.
• Preferably experience within FMCG.
• Ability to develop relationships with other business functions.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for weekly/monthly reporting and explaining manufacturing variances.
• Monthly forecasting of manufacturing overheads and material costs.
• Ownership of monthly KPI reporting for the Telford manufacturing team.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Effective Business Partnering

Education

CIMA Accountant or Part Qualified

Tools

SAP CO-PC

Job description

About

Company description:

Mller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by the Unternehmensgruppe Theo Mller which employs over 24,000 people throughout Europe. In the UK, Mller develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from more than 1,700 British farmers. The Mller brand is ranked at No.7 in The Grocers Top 100 list of Britains Biggest Brands, and is also the 7th most chosen brand in the UK.

Job Description

Were recruiting Operations Finance Business Partner

Mller has been a loved brand in the UK for over 30 years. Its a household name and it continues to grow as we invest to make and market an ever-great range of fantastic dairy products. We are currently the 8th most chosen FMCG brand, picked from supermarket shelves over 208 million times each year.

Muller Yogurts & Desserts are currently recruiting for an experienced Operations Finance Business Partner to be based at our Telford office on a hybrid working model. The successful candidate will act as a key business partner to both the Operations Financial Controller and the Telford Operations Leadership Team providing day to day operational and strategic financial support. You will need to have previous experience in a large commercial organisation, ideally FMCG and be a highly effective Business Partner with strong systems and processes experience, ideally within SAP.

Operations Finance Business Partner Key Responsibilities Will Include

Responsible for weekly and monthly management information reporting, including month end and explanation of manufacturing and material variance reporting.

Business Partner the Telford Operations management team providing timely information and value adding insight to support improved operational performance

Monthly forecasting of Private Label manufacturing overheads and material costs.

Responsible for the monthly update of materials and overheads in SAP product costing and explanations of key movements.

Business Partner the Private Label Commercial Team teams with NPD product costing and Commercial evaluations of new business tender.

Business Partner R&D, Packaging and Procurement business functions in identifying and evaluating cost saving initiatives working closely with Operational Excellence to developing material loss and operational efficiency improvements.

Responsible for Telford Plant Budget build and the reporting of key variances.

Ownership of the Ops Monthly KPI actual performance reporting deck and communicating to the Telford manufacturing leadership team.

Support the month end close Finance meeting with responsibility for explaining the key operational variances vs Target

Key skills & experience for the Operations Finance Business Partner: -

CIMA Accountant or Part Qualified with experience who demonstrates strong analytical skills.

Preferable experience within FMCG

Experience of SAP CO-PC and product cost building

Effective Business Partnering skills ability to communicate well, challenge and offer value added insight to support improved business performance.

Ability to develop relationships with Ops and other supporting business functions

Benefits

Mller pride ourselves on offering support to help develop your knowledge and skills. In return for your commitment, drive and enthusiasm, we offer our employees numerous benefits as part of your employment, including:

Competitive Salary / Bonus scheme / PMI / Life Assurance / Contributory pension plan / Employee Assistance Programme - an easy-to-use app which offers guidance and care for your physical and mental health. It puts a range of health and wellbeing services at the fingertips of Mller employees / Generous annual leave increasing with service / Flexible benefits programme / New and improved family friendly policies for maternity, adoption/surrogacy and paternity/partner leave / Free onsite parking / In addition, our employees have access to a Rewards Benefits Programme providing an exclusive range of discounts across 800 retailers, utilities, holidays and cinema tickets.

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 www.mullercareers.co.uk

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Nice-to-have skills

• SAP
• Analytical Skills
• Telford, England
  
  

Work experience

• Finance & Accounting
• Business Analyst
  
  

Languages

• English