Financial Business Controller (Maternity cover)

Danish Crown A/S; Bugle; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food company in Bugle is seeking a Business Controller for a maternity cover position starting January 2026. The role involves managing operational finance reporting, budgeting, and collaborating with teams to drive cost savings. Ideal candidates will have strong leadership skills and experience in finance management. This position offers opportunities for professional growth in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

28 days holiday plus bank holidays

Enhanced parental leave

Company pension scheme

Discounted meat for staff

Well-being programmes

Free Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Experience in operational finance reporting and cost management.
• Strong leadership skills to manage a finance team.
• Ability to contribute to strategic business discussions.

Responsibilities

• Manage weekly operational finance reporting.
• Lead creation of site budget and forecasts.
• Act as a business partner to operational teams.
• Oversee development of finance assistants.

Skills

Operational finance reporting

Cost savings

Leadership

Budgeting and forecasting

Collaboration

Job description

Why come to Danish Crown? – Here’s a few reasons for you to think about.

• Anamazing28 days’ holiday plus bank holidays – that’s 36 days holiday a year
• Enhancedmaternity, paternity, adoption and share parental leave
• Enhancedcompany sick pay
• Company pension scheme
• Heavily discountedmeat for all staff through the staff shop
• Well-being programmes, with free optional health care cash plans to cover your everyday healthcare costs and which offer a wide range of digital and virtual wellbeing tools to support both your health and the people you care about.
• FreeEmployee Assistance Programme for all colleagues and their families
• Freeparking at most of our premises
• Freetea and coffee on all sites
• Development opportunities for those that would like toprogressin a global business

Who is Danish Crown?

We are a food company owned by Danish farmers, supplying high-quality food to customers and consumers all over the world. From butchers to business developers, we are more than 26,000 colleagues.

Job Summary

The role is a maternity cover position starting January 2026

The Business Controller delivers operational finance reporting and provides insightful data to support strategic and operational decision making. The role partners with operational teams and other departments to drive efficiency, cost savings, and continuous improvement. You will lead a small finance team, foster a collaborative environment, support system setup for new products, and contribute to the Senior Leadership Team with financial insight that informs wider business objectives.

Responsibilities and duties

• Manage the weekly operational finance reporting, providing insight into the weekly EBIT figure and sharing results and breakdowns of deviations with the SLT and wider business.
• Monthly reporting, including journal entries, reconciling back to weekly accounts and producing KPIs that are shared with UK stakeholders.
• Lead the creation of the site budget and forecasts, including operational costs and overheads.
• Liaising with the commercial team
• Act as a business partner to operational teams to drive cost savings and improvements.
• Oversee and develop two finance assistants, managing their responsibilities and creating a productive work environment.
• Overhead management and reporting.
• Manage the set up of new products on relevant factory systems
• Part of the Senior Leadership Team, contributing to leadership discussions and wider business initiatives.

Job Requirements

All employees are expected to operate in line with our Leadership principles

• Totality: We always put the overall interests of the company first, sacrifice our own targets for the greater good, and actively resist silo culture.
• Talent: We always select the strongest team, prioritize diversity, and dare to hire people who are more skilled than we are.
• Ambition: We set ambitious targets and do not get excited about easily achieved green numbers, and we dare to “lean out” in the pursuit of better results.
• Trust: We fight every day against the “zero-mistake culture” and accept that mistakes are part of our professional and personal development journey.
• Followership: We strive daily to create followership from our employed colleagues and act as role models by living out our values and leadership principles.

As a leader you will:

• Creates a sense of common direction and purpose, where everyone has a common commitment towards, and proactively work towards, the same overall goals.
• Identify, cultivate, reward and retain talent, with the right capabilities, and who continuously push our organisation and ourselves to develop and achieve even more.
• Drives continuous improvement, both individually and organizationally, motivating employees to think big, lean out and set ambitious stretch goals.
• Creates an open and inclusive culture where employees feel comfortable and safe – even when challenging themselves in their pursuit of high performance and when sharing their ideas, view-points and innovative thinking.
• Instil a close and collaborative work culture, where leaders support, inspire, enable, and engage their team – fostering a proactive and collaborative work culture.