Head of Financial Reporting and Controls

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The Role & Key Responsibilities
Job Title: Head of Financial Reporting and Controls
Location: Hybrid - Peterborough

Contract type: Fixed Term - 12 months

Package includes: Salary from £62,000, plus a benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and reward your impact, including discretionary performance related bonus, car allowance, private healthcare, and a matched pension contribution of up to 10%

As the Head of Financial Reporting and Control at AB Vista, you will manage and coordinate the global financial reporting and control function, overseeing regional finance teams across multiple countries including Brazil, the US, Netherlands, Singapore, and India. This position offers the opportunity to enhance and refine the international finance function within a changing and evolving leadership team. It is ideal for a qualified, experienced finance professional with effective leadership ability and international exposure, prepared to maintain consistency and ensure excellence across a diverse, global finance operation.

What you'll be doing:

Maintain and improve financial systems and data integrity, demonstrating adaptability to various ERP platforms

Manage and oversee all regional financial reporting and control activities across multiple international locations, including Brazil, US, Netherlands, Singapore, and India.

Ensure consistent delivery of accurate financial reports and controls, managing key risk areas effectively.

Collaborate closely with the Finance Director and cross-functional teams such as Treasury, Tax, and Central Finance to align processes and reporting standards.

Manage and develop a dispersed team of regional financial controllers and finance managers, promoting clear communication and effective performance.

Implement initiatives to standardize financial reporting and control practices across regions, enhancing consistency and compliance.

Support the integration of new leadership strategies and process improvements under the incoming Finance Director.

What you'll bring:

Fully qualified accountant with ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent professional qualification.

Minimum of seven years’ experience in financial reporting and control within a corporate or international environment.

Extensive proficiency in financial control, month-end close, journal entries, accruals, prepayments, reconciliations, and risk management.

Experience working with ERP systems, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and advanced Excel skills (e.g., VLOOKUP, pivot tables).

Proficient organizational and leadership skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and a dispersed international team.

Solid understanding of VAT, credit control, invoice coding, expense management, tax, and treasury functions.
Where growth meets purpose

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 shaping a world where responsible nutrition is accessible to all. With a big goal comes equally big opportunities to make a career that truly feels like your own. As a team we’re collaborative, purpose-driven and encourage trying new ideas. We also find ways to nourish your individual journey, so everyone can feel proud of the difference that they make in their own way.

We’re thrilled to share that AB Agri has been recognised as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025. This is a proud moment for us all. It highlights the real progress we’ve made to build a workplace that is inclusive, supportive, and fair for everyone. Over the last 5 years we have rebuilt our talent management practices, from inclusive hiring, to transparent pay frameworks, flexible work, and the momentum of our Employee Network Groups. Our actions are embedding inclusion at the heart of how we operate and creating a culture where people can be themselves

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.

We’re looking for trail-blazers, non-conformists, innovators.

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, company car/allowance, 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 Vista an animal nutrition technology company offering pioneering products and technical services to the global animal feed industry. We’re part of the AB Agri community of leading animal nutrition products and services businesses.

We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division 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.

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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

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If you have any questions about this role or need help applying please contact Lourdes Villalba via [email protected].

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