Overview
We’re Hiring: FP&A Marketing Finance Business Partner
Location: Market Drayton / Hybrid – 3 days per week on site.
Contract: Full-Time, Permanent
Hours: Monday-Friday (40 hours)
Benefits for the role: 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.
If you are ready to unleash your potential and build an exciting career with Britain’s most chosen dairy brand, Müller UK & Ireland, part of the renowned Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller, invites you to apply for our FP&A Marketing Finance Business Partner position.
What you’ll do
- Co-ordination of the Controlling month end process: Day 4-month end review meeting and management of the month end timetable; bridging analysis to explain the profit result vs forecast, budget and prior year – Day 6 month and reporting pack.
- Business Partner Key Brand Teams: vertically partnering Brand Teams by providing financial and commercial decision support and insight to drive the business forwards in these areas, covering all Yogurts & Desserts brands. Responsibilities include management of Brand P&Ls, input into the PEP process, key challenges/input into the monthly Brand Review meetings, handling day-to-day queries, and ad-hoc reporting and analysis as required.
- Manage the financial input to the Clarity system and ensure alignment with financial plans; ensure post-launch reviews are completed.
- Provide support & challenge to the Marketing team on Marketing budgets. Ownership of the quarterly forecast process.
- Financial input into the brand review meeting cycle in terms of brand P&L performance month, year-to-date and full year forecast.
- Financial Support to the annual (budget) and mid-term (3YP) planning processes: development & management of timetables, financial analysis on the branded business, and preparation of standard Group financial charts & presentations for both the branded & private label businesses.
- Delivery of profitability reporting to Group (total Y&D BU): Day 8 Scorecard and supplementary schedules; preparation of financial charts for group reviews; weekly volume reporting; first point of contact for ad-hoc queries.
- Financial support provided to the Marketing Investment budget: pre-evaluation of investment decisions, freeze pot management, quarterly forecasting, budget planning.
- Coordination of the monthly BOP Financial Forecast: produce P&Ls for both branded & PL businesses and evaluate constrained demand plan; highlight gaps to targets.
What you’ll bring
- Qualified accountant (CIMA preferable)
- Graduate level (2:1 minimum in business discipline)
Essential Specialist/Technical skills / abilities
- Ability to remain accurate in a fast-paced commercial environment whilst remaining pragmatic in judgment of materiality.
- Ability to provide decision support & challenge to the commercial teams
- Structured approach to managing priorities across multiple projects over different time horizons
- Holistic view across the commercial sphere to ensure decisions are appropriate and do not lead to conflicting actions
- Previous commercial finance experience in decision support role.
Desirable Specialist/Technical skills / abilities
- Previous experience in financial planning & reporting
- Competent in SAP (CO-PA)
- Experience of working within a FMCG environment
Soft skills
- Building strong relationships across the commercial teams to ensure involvement in decisions up front.
- Dynamic with the ability to make an impact.
- Driven individual eager for role / career progression.
- Demonstrates high accountability for role responsibilities / projects / initiatives.
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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