Interim Financial Controller

Job Title:

Site Financial Controller

6-month FTC - possibility to extend

Location: Wigan, England, GB

Job : R-106777

Date posted: 09/17/2026

We're looking for an experienced and motivated Finance leader to head up the Site Finance Team at Kitt Green. The Site Financial Controller provides overall financial leadership and stewardship for Kraft Heinz's largest European manufacturing site, ensuring strong governance, accurate and timely reporting, and high-quality decision support to drive performance, efficiency, and compliance.

This role leads a team covering the site's major cost and performance areas, including circa £50m of ZBB costs per annum and circa £50m of Variable Input Costs (including Direct Labour, Material Usage Variance, Utilities and Other VIC), alongside critical compliance deliverables, inventory and product costing governance, and support to capital investment justification and delivery.

The Site Financial Controller translates complex data into clear recommendations, champions continuous improvement, and strengthens financial understanding across the site leadership team. The Kraft Heinz Management System encourages us to make informed choices using facts and data.

This role sits at the heart of the site leadership agenda and would suit someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, can balance strategic priorities with operational rigour, and enjoys working with colleagues at all levels to deliver results that matter.

Direct Reports:

• Manufacturing Finance Lead
• Finance Business Partner
• Finance Analyst – Business Partnering
• Finance Analyst - Manufacturing

Reports into: European Operation Finance Lead

Financial Leadership & Business Partnering

• Set the direction for site finance, ensuring the right routines, insights and governance are in place to support the Site Leadership Team in delivering safety, quality, service and cost performance.
• Act as trusted advisor to the Site Director, Heads of Manufacturing and Functional Heads, challenging constructively using facts and data and ensuring decisions are supported by robust analysis.
• Build financial understanding across the site by translating complex data into clear actions and trade-offs, supporting a culture of ownership and accountability.
• Champion continuous improvement by ensuring finance is an enabler of 90 Day Improvement Plans, Savings Initiatives and Capex projects (from justification through to benefits tracking).

Operational Finance, Cost Control & Monthly Financial Reporting

• Own the site's end-to-end financial performance management, ensuring high-quality reporting and review routines across both ZBB and VIC, with clear actions to close gaps to AOP/Latest Estimate.
• Ensure timely and accurate month end close, including review of provisions, corrections, allocations and key judgements, and strong balance sheet ownership across the site.
• Oversee cost center reporting and review meetings with operational and functional leads, ensuring the right level of insight, challenge and follow-through.
• Ensure robust commentary and story-telling for key site reporting packs (e.g., M  / Forecast decks) and align the narrative across Finance and Operations.

Budgeting & Forecasting

• Lead the site planning calendar for Finance, coordinating the annual planning cycle and monthly forecasting routines across ZBB and VIC.
• Ensure strong scenario modelling and risk/opportunity management, proactively surfacing issues early and agreeing mitigation actions with the business.
• Oversee the site's input to AOP Standard Setting (fixed and variable elements), ensuring assumptions are robust, consistent and well-governed.

Product Costing, Inventory & Working Capital Stewardship

• Provide governance over…