Management Accountant - Supply & Trading

Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller; Market Drayton; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Müller UK & Ireland as a Management Accountant-Milk Supply, leading a team in ensuring accurate financial reporting for the Milk Supply P&L and balance sheet. This hybrid role offers the opportunity to drive process improvements and support financial forecasts while benefiting from competitive remuneration including a bonus and various perks.

Benefits

10% annual bonus

4x Life Assurance

Private Medical Insurance

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave

Pension Employer Contribution Scheme

Müller Rewards discounts

Business Supplied IT Equipment

Career Progression Opportunities

Free parking

Qualifications

• Experience in managing a team.
• Detailed understanding of journal postings and month-end accruals.
• Strong systems knowledge in a finance capacity.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the Milk Supply P&L and Balance sheet.
• Ensure accuracy of financial data and support monthly reporting.
• Manage and coach a team of four.

Skills

Variance analysis

Leadership

Communication

Analytical skills

Education

CIMA/ACCA qualified

Tools

SAP

Excel

Job description

Management Accountant - Supply & Trading

Müller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller which employs over 31,000 people throughout Europe. In the UK, Müller develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from 1,300 farmers in Britain.Müller is ranked within the top 20 in The Grocer's Top 100 list of Britain's Biggest Brands and is picked from shelves millions of times each year. Müller UK & Ireland includes:

Müller Milk & Ingredients which aims to be Britain's private label dairy leader and produces branded and private label fresh milk, cream, butter and ingredients products. It boasts a network of dairies and depots servicing customers throughout the country.

Müller Yogurt & Desserts which is the UK's leading yogurt manufacturer which aims to create millions more Müller moments for its consumers. It is responsible for major brands like Müller Corner, Müllerlight, Müller Bliss, Müller Rice, FRijj and Müller Kefir Smoothie and produces chilled desserts under licence from Mondelez International. It also supplies the UK private label yogurt market from a dedicated, state of the art yogurt facility.

We're recruiting ... Management Accountant-Milk Supply

Are you ready to unleash your potential and build an exciting career in finance with Britian's most chosen dairy brand? Müller UK & Ireland, part of the renowned Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller, invites you to apply for our Management Accountant-Milk Supply. With over 26,000 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.

As Management Accountant-Milk Supply, you will be the Team Lead to ensure farmer payments, trading activity and overheads are recorded correctly within SAP and month end processes and analysis are completed properly. You will provide support to the Financial Controller on forecasting and budgeting process. You will drive improvements in processes and controls and manage a team of four.

The role is located at Market Drayton, Western Way with a hybrid' working model-3 days per week on site.

Your challenge for the Management Accountant-Milk Supply: -
• Responsible for the Milk Supply P&L and Balance sheet in SAP - to include maintaining the integrity of data into SAP, challenging results and anomalies with the rest of the team when required.
• Ensuring accurate and timely financial data and supporting information to enable review of monthly reporting and future outlook (budgets, quarterly forecasting and mid month forecasts); this will include management of the month end process for farmer payments, trading activity and overheads, ensuring all transactions are recorded accurately by the team and month end analysis complete.
• Review the monthly farmer payment and the reporting to the business for approval.
• Detailed monitoring of all actual cost movements against forecasted ppl to fully understand all movements (e.g. base, butterfat, profile, hygiene related).
• Support the Financial Controller in maintaining overall financial control and managing the risks within the Milk Supply area.
• Ensure the balance sheet reconciliation is completed in accordance with Group timetable and all variances fully investigated and explained.
• Introduce appropriate checks to ensure accurate reporting.
• Responsible for accuracy of financial data within systems.
• Become the SAP 'go to' person for the Milk Supply team.
• Preparation of monthly reporting for the Milk Supply area in accordance with Group timetable, including:
• Review accruals prepared by the team to ensure accurately reflect the true cost in each month.
• Prepare variance analysis of actuals vs forecast/budget clearly explaining any major variance.
• Preparation of weekly reporting for the Milk Supply area in accordance with Group timetable.
• Support the budget and forecasting process and influence assumptions.
• Seek to identify improvements in the month end process and weekly reporting with the aim to improve accuracy and/or efficiency & to identify improvements in the farmer payment process by working with the Farmer payment Assistant Accountant and Farm Services Team.
• Simplify the milk creditor balance sheet reconciliation spreadsheet/process further.
• Develop effective cross functional working relationships at all levels within the business e.g. sites, Group Finance, Inbound Logistics team.
• Support the Head of Milk Supply and Ingredients to ensure a high service provided to the farmers and with analysis for the business.
• Support the Financial Controller in business partnering the Milk Supply Director and Commercial Director-Ingredients and Agriculture team.
• Cover for others in the Milk Supply Controlling team.
• Support the Financial Controller in ad-hoc projects, acting as backup in times of absence.
• Lead system development projects and accuracy of information maintained in the system.
• Manage 4 direct reports-coach, lead and support.

Key skills & experience for the Management Accountant-Milk Supply:-
• Qualified CIMA/ACCA.
• Experience of providing detailed and high-level variance analysis.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Previous experience of managing a team.
• Experience in the dairy industry would be beneficial.
• Strong IT & Systems knowledge and experience, including Excel. SAP experience preferred.
• Detailed orientated and able to self-review complex data.
• Process and analytical orientated.
• Good communication skills.
• Ability to visualise the whole picture and understand the importance of their role both within the department and also within the whole company.
• Knowledge of journal postings, balance sheet reconciliations and month end accruals.

Benefits for the role: Up to 10% annual bonus, 4x Life Assurance policy, 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, Business Supplied IT Equipment, Career Progression and Development Opportunities and Free parking

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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Contact Details:

F.A.O. UK Recruitment, Müller UK & Ireland, Shrewsbury Road, Market Drayton, Shropshire, TF9 3SQ