Financial Business Controller (Maternity cover) Job Details | Danish Crown Group

Danish Crown; St. Austell; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food company in St. Austell is seeking a Business Controller for a maternity cover position starting January 2026. This role involves delivering operational finance reporting, supporting strategic decision-making, and managing a finance team. Responsibilities include budget creation, monthly reporting, and liaising with operational teams to drive efficiency. The ideal candidate is expected to embody leadership principles, fostering collaboration and continuous improvement.

Benefits

28 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Enhanced company sick pay

Company pension scheme

Discounted meat for all staff

Free health care cash plans

Employee Assistance Programme

Free parking

Free tea and coffee

Development opportunities

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Manage the weekly operational finance reporting and provide insight into the weekly EBIT figure.
• Monthly reporting including journal entries and KPIs sharing.
• Lead the creation of the site budget and forecasts.
• Liaise with the commercial team.
• Act as a business partner to operational teams to drive cost savings.
• Oversee and develop two finance assistants.
• Manage overhead management and reporting.
• Set up new products on relevant factory systems.
• Contribute to leadership discussions as part of the Senior Leadership Team.

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.