Senior Financial Controller -FTC

Overview

We're Mller UK & Ireland, a family-run dairy business and we're experts at what we do. Dairy is a key part of a healthy and balanced diet and we're proud to help meet the nutritional needs of millions of people every day. Our business is split into two areas:
Mller Milk & Ingredients (MMI) and Mller Yogurt & Desserts (MYD).

Join MMI and step into a culture that's fast-paced and full of opportunity. With great benefits, exciting challenges, and a dream team of people, this is your chance to make a real impact. We process enough milk to make 66 billion cups of tea every year and produce cream, butter, milk drinks and ingredients products from milk supplied by over 1,000 farmers in Britain.

Why Mller? Milk flows through everything at Mller—from farm to factory to fridge. The true impact comes from our people, working hard and as a team to put smiles on faces and make each day delicious for our shoppers. As the UK's most popular dairy brand, we're focused on creating a more sustainable dairy future and helping millions of people reach for our branded and private label products on shelves everywhere.

Join a culture full of pace that's bold and entrepreneurial, with opportunities that are yours for the taking.

Senior Financial Controller (12-month fixed term) – Location is flexible on a hybrid model (3 days per week on site).
Contract: Full-Time, 12 months.
Hours: Monday–Friday, 40 hours.

Are you ready to unleash your potential and build an exciting career with Britain's most chosen dairy brand? Mller UK & Ireland, part of the renowned Unternehmensgruppe Theo Mller, invites you to apply for the Senior Financial Controller role for a fixed term of 12 months. As Senior Financial Controller
, you will provide financial decision‑making support and act as finance lead in driving improvements in site performance. You will ensure site budgets, capital investments and three-year plans are optimised and act as a business partner to the Head of Manufacturing.

• Hold fiduciary responsibility for all materials and assets owned by the company on the site.
• Develop and maintain a system of financial control aligned with company policies and procedures to enable fiduciary responsibility.
• Ensure correct recording of all types of inventories (R&M, Milk, Ingredients, etc.) in the company's financial systems.
• Own the site balance sheet.
• Ensure accurate recording of materials consumption and that financial systems report site usage, wastage and variances.
• Bridge site performance to prior period and forecasts.
• Support Commercial teams with new tenders.
• Manage, maintain and review the Bill of Materials and other product costing models, and update BOMs to maintain accuracy.
• Close the books for the site each month and ensure management accounts report income, expenditures and closing balance sheet accurately.
• Provide the site management team and MMI leadership with clear, timely, and accurate analysis of financial performance and its impact.
• Drive and manage standardized financial KPIs for the site and report them to site management and MMI leadership on a daily/weekly/monthly cycle.
• Explain site milk costs on a monthly basis.
• Report site financial operational performance with clear reporting to site leadership.
• Review and drive improvements in site forecasting and performance metrics.
• Act as a business partner to the local site manager, ensuring independence is maintained.
• Independently support line manager/senior manufacturing team in identifying and challenging local site performance.
• Coordinate and facilitate the detailed budget and forecasting process of the site, including explaining business impacts to internal, functional and group colleagues.
• Evaluate and continuously review investment opportunities for the site and support wider team in reviewing network design options.
• Support SKU/Product Family rationalisation opportunities (within/across sites).
• Provide robust financial modelling and systems solutions to new business opportunities across all manufacturing processes of the site.
• Drive improvements in operational budgeting such as bottom-up resource planning.
• Support in…