Head of Business Controlling

Who are Danish Crown?

We are a food company owned by Danish farmers, supplying high-quality food to customers and consumers all over the world. From butchers to business developers, we are more than 26,000 colleagues globally, with around 1000 in the UK.

Why come to Danish Crown?

• An amazing 28 days' holiday plus bank holidays – that's 36 days holiday a year
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and share parental leave
• Enhanced company sick pay
• Company pension scheme
• Heavily discounted products through staff sales
• Wellbeing programmes, with free optional health care cash plans to cover your everyday healthcare costs and which offer a wide range of digital and virtual wellbeing tools to support both your health and the people you care about
• Employee Assistance Programme for all colleagues and their families
• Development opportunities for those that would like to progress in a global business

Job summary

The purpose of this position is to lead the local finance- and business controlling teams in Bugle and Rochdale and act as a trusted finance business partner to the production site directors and the UK operational management in general. The role is responsible for managing a small team, ensuring sound financial management of production in the UK.

Responsibilities and duties

• Lead the controlling teams and development of skills to ensure sustainable financial operations and strengthening finance business partnering ability in the UK sites.
• Budget and forecasting for production sites in the UK in collaboration with production management.
• Weekly and Monthly follow-up on production costs and KPIs, incl. management presentations
• Regular performance reviews in coordination with production management.
• Lead performance improvement initiatives, focused on reducing/eliminating operational/cost inefficiencies.
• Coordinate production financials into UK total P&L with Commercial Finance.
• Standardise ways of working in close collaboration with Finance in Denmark.
• Maintain and strengthen controls and procedures, identifying and implement opportunities for process and systems improvements.
• Manage and promote use of reporting tools and proactively drive improvements to ensure they continue to provide relevant business information.
• Own standard costs for the UK and work closely with DK to ensure accuracy
• Cover site controllers for weekly/monthly reporting and weekly review meetings
• Own the pricing models for Lidl and Tesco, along with supporting commercial team on tenders
• Manager the Company car scheme and administration
• Monitor capital expediture
• Invoice and Purchase Order approval
• Energy pricing reviews with Denmark
• Processing ESG submissions in line with requirements

Job requirements

• A strong background in financial management, business controlling, and operational P&L management, preferably in a food production company
• Proven ability to lead, build, and develop high-performing finance teams
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, across different levels and stakeholder groups.
• High operational and ethical integrity as well as the ability to work independently and proactively
• Ability to business partner and communicate with non-finance stakeholders effectively and articulately.
• Occasional travel to other sites is required
• Strong IT literacy, experience with SAP or other ERP systems.

All employees are expected to operate in line with our Leadership principles

• Totality: We always put the overall interests of the company first, sacrifice our own targets for the greater good, and actively resist silo culture.
• Talent: We always select the strongest team, prioritize diversity, and dare to hire people who are more skilled than we are.
• Ambition: We set ambitious targets and do not get excited about easily achieved green numbers, and we dare to "lean out" in the pursuit of better results.
• Trust: We fight every day against the "zero-mistake culture" and accept that mistakes are part of our professional and personal development journey.
• Followership: We strive daily to create followership from our employed colleagues and act as role models by living out our values and leadership principles.

As a leader you will:

• Create a sense of common direction and purpose, where everyone has a common commitment towards, and proactively work towards, the same overall goals.
• Identify, cultivate, reward and retain talent, with the right capabilities, and who continuously push our organisation and ourselves to develop and achieve even more.
• Drive continuous improvement, both individually and organizationally, motivating employees to think big, lean out and set ambitious stretch goals.
• Create an open and inclusive culture where employees feel comfortable and safe – even when challenging themselves in their pursuit of high performance and when sharing their ideas, view-points and innovative thinking.
• Instil a close and collaborative work culture, where leaders support, inspire, enable, and engage their team – fostering a proactive and collaborative work culture.