Senior Management Accountant

Role Overview

• Immerse into the business to fully understand operating systems and key drivers.
• Actively seek out with site finance BP’s tasks and processes which can be run centrally to create synergies and free up resource for additional value add work.
• Design and implement new reporting to aid visibility and transparency of key performance data within the site leadership teams.
• Coordinate and manage analysis into packaging material spend.
• Work with other areas of the business, including Group on specific reviews and alignment activities.
• Support Head of Financial Controlling
• Manufacturing with analysis on customer profitability.
• Preparation and analysis of monthly milk consumption and COS for review and sign off by site finance business partners.
• Consolidated reporting on waste and yields.
• Work with GCO to implement BOARD reporting.
• Use SAP outputs to review for issues in product costings, BoMs and pricing, actively searching these out and drive resolution in conjunction with the site BP’s and central data functions.
• Share knowledge and learnings with other team members to ensure consistency and improvement.
• Challenge results and anomalies with the sites to ensure high quality of information.
• Support Commercial teams with new Tenders by ensuring the costings provided are robust, transparent and key cost drivers are understood.
• Own manufacturing cost trackers, ensuring that they remain fit for purpose.
• Ensure adherence to group standard costing methodology.
• Support the Head of Financial Controlling
• Manufacturing throughout the forecast and budget processes.

Requirements

• Qualified Accountant
• Proven Experience in FMCG
• Ability to operate at all levels
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to manage and influence
• SAP experience
• Self-starter with the ability to drive improvements
• Needs to be a team player, but capable of working on own initiative, developing skills in new areas

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Generous annual bonus
• Life Assurance
• 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 and development opportunities