Senior Management Accountant

We’re Hiring: Senior Management Accountant

Location: Droitwich, Manchester, Bridgwater, East Kilbride, Telford, Market Drayton or Manchester / 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. 

Are you 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 Senior Management Accountant position.

As Senior Management Accountant, you will provide analysis and reporting of manufacturing key operational data. Working across the team to identify opportunities for automation, synergies and digitalisation. Support with driving a focus on customer profitability and waste reporting.

What you will do: –
•Immerse into the business to fully understand operating systems and key drivers.
•Actively seek out with site finance BP’s tasks and processes which can be run centrally to create synergies and free up resource for additional value add work.
•Design and implement new reporting to aid visibility and transparency of key performance data within the site leadership teams
•Coordinate and manage analysis into packaging material spend
•Work with other areas of the business, including Group on specific reviews and alignment activities.
•Support Head of Financial Controlling – Manufacturing with analysis on customer profitability.
•Preparation and analysis of monthly milk consumption and COS for review and sign off by site finance business partners.
•Consolidated reporting on waste and yields.
•Work with GCO to implement BOARD reporting
•Use SAP outputs to review for issues in product costings, BoMs and pricing, actively searching these out and drive resolution in conjunction with the site BP’s and central data functions.
•Share knowledge and learnings with other team members to ensure consistency and improvement
•Challenge results and anomalies with the sites to ensure high quality of information
•Support Commercial teams with new Tenders by ensuring the costings provided are robust, transparent and key cost drivers are understood.
•Own manufacturing cost trackers, ensuring that they remain fit for purpose
•Ensure adherence to group standard costing methodology
•Support the Head of Financial Controlling – Manufacturing throughout the forecast and budget processes

What you will bring: –
•Qualified Accountant
•Proven Experience in FMCG
•Ability to operate at all levels
•Excellent communication skills
•Ability to manage and influence
•SAP experience
•Self-starter with the ability to drive improvements
•Needs to be a team player, but capable of working on own initiative, developing skills in new areas

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