Senior Business Controller

Danone; Liverpool City Region; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Danone is looking for a Senior Business Controller in Liverpool to lead financial planning and analysis. This role involves managing teams, ensuring reporting accuracy, and driving finance transformation initiatives. The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant with strong leadership skills and experience in financial environments.

Benefits

Inspirational colleagues

Opportunities for personal and professional development

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with experience in financial planning and analysis.
• Strong leadership and coaching skills in a financial context.
• Proficiency in ERP and BI tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial planning and forecasting cycles with accurate projections.
• Ensure reporting accuracy and manage a team of Junior Business Controllers.
• Drive finance transformation projects and maintain internal controls.

Skills

Financial planning

Forecasting

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Education

CIMA, ACCA, or equivalent

Tools

SAP

Power BI

Job description

Short Intro and About the Job

Are you a qualified finance professional ready to lead, influence, and drive transformation? Join our Nutricia Liverpool team as a Senior Business Controller.

The Senior Business Controller plays a critical role in driving financial performance, ensuring data integrity, and supporting strategic decision-making across the business. This role is responsible for leading the financial planning and analysis cycle, ensuring timely and accurate reporting, and managing two direct reports. Success in this role means delivering high-quality insights, meeting all internal and external reporting deadlines, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and accountability. The role will also lead initiatives to enhance reporting systems and streamline forecasting processes to support business agility and growth.

About You

What You’ll Be Responsible For:

• Lead financial planning and forecasting cycles, delivering accurate projections and scenario analyses.
• Ensure reporting accuracy and timeliness across systems like SAP, Tagetik, Magnitude, and Power BI.
• Manage and develop a team of two Junior Business Controllers, fostering growth and accountability.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to provide financial insights and challenge assumptions.
• Drive finance transformation projects, including automation and tool implementation.
• Maintain strong internal controls and support audit processes.

What We’re Looking For:

• Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, or equivalent).
• Proven experience in financial planning and analysis within a matrixed or multinational environment.
• Strong leadership and coaching skills.
• Proficiency in ERP and BI tools (e.g., SAP, Power BI).
• A strategic thinker with a results-driven mindset and excellent stakeholder engagement skills.

About Us, We offer and What's next

Nutricia is Europe’s largest specialist nutrition company and the market leader in the UK. We specialise in the delivery of medical nutrition for the very young, the old and the sick, supplying high quality feeds to patients and consumers. Our purpose is to pioneer nutritional discoveries that help people live longer, healthier lives.

When it comes to finding a great place to work, there are plenty of things to look for: inspirational colleagues, freedom in your job to make a real difference, and a shared ethos you can truly believe in. Throw in top perks, a responsive and dynamic environment, and unrivalled opportunities to develop personally and professionally, and you’ve found something pretty special. You’ve found Danone.

Here at Danone, we put people at the centre of everything we do – whether we’re developing ground-breaking new products, taking care of individual patients, or supporting the community. And if you join us, you can expect exactly that sort of attention too.

Nutricia medical nutrition products have a strong market share. The business operates within a mature market, but there is still scope for expansion both within local and global markets. The emphasis in the coming years will be on maintaining volume growth while ensuring we drive our cost targets in the right direction.