We're Hiring: FP&A Marketing Finance Business Partner
Location: Market Drayton / Hybrid - 3 days per week on site.
Contract: Full-Time, Permanent
Hours: Monday–Friday (40 hours)
Benefits for the role:
Competitive salary, generous annual bonus, Life Assurance, Private Medical Insurance, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (rising with service), Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Family Leave, Enhanced Bereavement Leave, Pension Employer Contribution Scheme (matched up to 8%), Exclusive access to Müller Rewards, offering a variety of online and in-store discounts and development opportunities.
If you are ready to unleash your potential and build an exciting career with Britian’s most chosen dairy brand, Müller UK & Ireland, part of the renowned Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller, invites you to apply for our FP&A Marketing Finance Business Partner position.
As our FP&A Marketing Finance Business Partner, you will provide support on all financial planning processes within the combined Yogurt & Desserts business unit. You will act as a key business partner to the Marketing team providing day to day financial and commercial decision support.
What you’ll do: -
- Co-ordination of the Controlling month end process:
Day 4-month end review meeting and management of the month end timetable
Bridging analysis to explain the profit result vs forecast, budget and prior year -Day 6 month and reporting pack.
- Business Partner Key Brand Teams:
Vertically Business partner Brand Teams- providing financial and commercial decision support and insight to drive the business forwards in these areas, covering all Yogurts & Desserts brands:
- Management of Brand P&LS
- Input into the PEP process
- Key challenges / input into the monthly Brand Review meetings
- Dealing with day-to-day queries from your key contacts
- Ad-hoc reporting and analysis as & when required
- Manage the financial input to the Clarity system and ensure aligns with financial plans, ensure post launch reviews are completed.
- Provide support & challenge to the Marketing team on Marketing budgets. Ownership of the quarterly forecast process.
- Financial input into the brand review meeting cycle in terms of brand p&l performance mth, ytd and full year forecast.
- Financial Support to the annual (budget) and mid term (3YP) planning processes:
- Development & management of the timetables for the total Y&D Business Unit.
- Financial analysis on the branded business explaining the key planning assumptions and variances.
- Preparation of standard Group financial charts & presentations for both the branded & private label businesses.
- Delivery of profitability reporting to Group (total Y&D BU):
- Day 8 Scorecard and supplementary schedules
- Preparation of financial charts for the group business reviews
- Weekly volume reporting to group
- First point of contact for ad-hoc queries
- Financial Support provided to the Marketing Investment budget:
- Pre-evaluation of investment decisions
- Freeze pot management
- Quarterly forecasting
- Budget planning
- Co-ordination of the monthly BOP Financial Forecast:
- Produce P&LS for both branded & PL businesses -Financial evaluation of constrained demand plan
- Highlighting gap to targets
What you’ll bring: -
- Qualified accountant (CIMA preferable)
- Graduate level (2:1 minimum in business discipline)
Essential Specialist/Technical skills / abilities:
- Ability to remain accurate in a fast-paced commercial environment whilst remaining pragmatic in judgment of materiality.
- Ability to provide decision support & challenge to the commercial teams
- Structured approach to managing priorities across multiple projects over different time horizons
- Being able to take a holistic view across the commercial sphere to ensure decisions are appropriate and do not lead to conflicting actions
- Previous commercial finance experience in decision support role.
Desirable Specialist/Technical skills / abilities:
- Previous experience financial planning & reporting.
- Competent in SAP (CO-PA).
- Experience of working within a FMCG environment.
Soft skills:
- Building strong relationships across the commercial teams to ensure involvement in decisions up front.
- Dynamic with the ability to make an impact.
- Driven individual eager for role / career progression.
- Demonstrates high accountability for role responsibilities / projects / initiatives.
The Process
If you have the skills and experience in the above areas and would like to be considered for this role, please apply at www.mullercareers.co.uk
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