Finance Controller (Dairy Division)

Job Title: Finance Controller (Dairy Division)

Location: Peterborough - Hybrid (ideally 2 days per week in the office with some flexibility)

Shift details: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Are you a strong financial manager or controller with excellent business partnering skills and proven experience within governance and controls? Would you like to work for a global business experiencing rapid growth and investment? 

What you'll be doing: 

• Accountable for the timely and accurate reporting of results to AB Agri senior leadership and ABF
• Manage the month end close process across various AB Dairy business units
• Ownership of the balance sheet and subsequent balance sheet reviews across various AB Dairy business units
• Manage the statutory account preparation, statutory audits and statutory account filing process
  
• Lead the full budgeting and forecasting process whilst providing appropriate challenge to the senior management teams
• Drive a robust risk and controls environment and recommends the right strategies to ensure the organisation adheres to governance structures and applies best practice. 
• Responsible for the overheads budgeting and forecast process, providing recommendations and insight to the senior management team
• Identify risks and opportunities during the budgeting and forecasting process to support the business in achieving its strategic goals
• Provide business partnering and strategic finance insight, to enable informed decision making and support profit delivery 
• Responsible for customs and duty compliance, ensuring AEO status is retained in the UK
• Manage cashflow activities of the GB&I business, including cashflow forecasts and collections 
• Manage the foreign exchange exposures of GB&I, taking strategic oversight to ensure adequate currency cover is in place 
• Management of VAT set up for new products and VAT reporting

What you'll bring: 

• Qualified professional within ACCA/ACA or CIMA with proven post qualified experience
• Previous practice and industry experience would be desirable in this role
• Previous experience of managing or supervising people with the ability coach, mentor and get the best out of your team whilst also leading on process and best practice across a matrix environment
• Strong accounting technical knowledge with excellent governance and controls experience 
• Ability to partner across a wide ranging business across all levels, influencing and engaging whilst building strong business relationships
• Comfortable with complexity and ambiguity, a creative problem solver with the ability to see both the big picture and manage the detail
• Commercial mindset with the ability to advise and promote confidence and credibility across dairy finance whilst staying up to date with the latest finance trends and requirements
• Strong track record of creating and delivering presentations to senior management

Rewarding your passion

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one. 

About us

We’re AB Agri, part of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.  What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you.  People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture. 

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.