Site Financial Controller - FTC

Site Financial Controller – Billingham

Billingham (Home of McCoys, POM-BEAR, and more!). On-site
• FTC - 15-month maternity cover

Join our snack-loving team

We’re looking for a Site Financial Controller to join us at KP Snacks. If you’re ready to bring your ideas to the table, grow your skills and be part of a team that values what makes you, you – this could be your next big move.

As Site Finance Controller, you’ll play a central role in our Teesside Site Leadership Team, partnering with the Plant Manager and colleagues across Operations, Supply Chain and Finance. Your insight, challenge and support will help drive strong P&L performance, deliver site KPIs and enable confident, responsible decision-making.

You’ll lead the financial planning, budgeting and forecasting processes for one of our largest and most complex manufacturing sites, home to over 700 colleagues and around £210m turnover. You’ll shape and influence the site strategy, provide high-quality financial reporting, and ensure robust financial governance across all operations.

We believe in rewarding our colleagues and helping them thrive. Here’s a flavour of what we offer:

• £7,500 annual car allowance.
• Annual bonus scheme, with a strong track record of over achievement
• Comprehensive healthcare support – including Medicash Health Cash Plan or Private Healthcare, Digital GP, Best Doctors second opinion service and specialist cancer care
• KP Pension Plan – contribution matching up to 7% of your salary
• 25 days holiday, plus the option to buy more
• KP4ME – our online platform for benefits, discounts, wellbeing tools and more

• Providing strategic financial leadership to the Site Leadership Team
  , shaping the site OGSM and G2G targets, interpreting performance trends, and ensuring plans are grounded in robust financial insight and aligned to KP Snacks and Intersnack Group priorities
• Leading site-wide financial planning, budgeting and forecasting
  , covering primes, overheads, labour, logistics, capital investment and restructuring activity, ensuring assumptions are sound and stakeholders are aligned and accountable
• Driving high-quality, insight-led financial reporting
  , including weekly flash results, monthly accounts, variance analysis, waste performance, KPI trends and risk/opportunity assessments that support timely and effective decision-making
• Owning and challenging site cost performance
  , analysing standard cost variances, material usage, labour efficiency, overhead absorption, waste streams and project delivery to identify constraints, improvement opportunities and cost drivers
• Ensuring strong, compliant financial governance
  , overseeing accruals, prepayments, inventory reconciliation, year‑end processes, audit requests, balance sheet integrity, capital appraisals, fixed asset management and adherence to Group accounting standards
• Shaping and enabling change activity
  , supporting NPD launches, packaging changes, product transfers, tender costing requirements and capital installations, including end‑to‑end financial tracking of benefits, risks and delivery
• Upskilling colleagues across the site
  , developing the capability of two Site Accountants and building wider financial understanding across Operations and Supply Chain to drive data-led decision-making and support the site’s loss analysis journey
• Driving continuous improvement in finance processes
  , simplifying ways of working, enhancing financial insight, improving speed and accuracy, and supporting the site’s development through digitalisation, standardisation and best-practice sharing

We’re KP Snacks, part of the Intersnack family. Across more than 30 countries, over 15,000 of us work together to make the snacks people love – from Hula Hoops to McCoy’s. In the UK, we’re a team of around 2,400 colleagues, based across seven sites and our Slough HQ. We’re proud of our close-knit culture, where we speak up, celebrate differences and push boundaries together.

We’re building a workplace where everyone belongs. If you don’t tick every box, we’d still love to hear from you – your unique perspective could be just what…