Commercial Finance Business Support

4 weeks ago


Market Drayton, United Kingdom Müller Full time

Müller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller which employs over 31,000 people throughout Europe. In the UK, Müller develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from 1,300 farmers in Britain.Müller is ranked within the top 20 in The Grocer’s Top 100 list of Britain’s Biggest Brands and is picked from shelves millions of times each year. Müller UK & Ireland includes:

Müller Milk & Ingredients which aims to be Britain’s private label dairy leader and produces branded and private label fresh milk, cream, butter and ingredients products. It boasts a network of dairies and depots servicing customers throughout the country.

Müller Yogurt & Desserts which is the UK’s leading yogurt manufacturer which aims to create millions more Müller moments for its consumers. It is responsible for major brands like Müller Corner, Müllerlight, Müller Bliss, Müller Rice, FRijj and Müller Kefir Smoothie and produces chilled desserts under licence from Mondelez International. It also supplies the UK private label yogurt market from a dedicated, state of the art yogurt facility.

Müller offers you a long term career with a genuine market leader – we are an entrepreneurial company where people love to work and make a difference. Our competitive advantage comes through driving value through innovation and brands, scale, operational excellence and building a high performing international organisation.

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Is your future goal to become a Finance Business Partner, but not sure how to get there? The Commercial Finance Business Support role on 12 months FTC, in our MMI business, is a perfect stepping stone towards business partnering, allowing you to transition from traditional accounting and reporting through to variance analysis and generating insights. This role allows you to gain direct exposure to our commercial teams and customers, whilst working under the guidance of experienced business partners. We’re looking for someone with great attention to detail, who has a hunger to learn how the business and our customers work, and someone who enjoys variety in their day to day, as you never know what you might be asked next The role is a nice blend of routine and ad hoc tasks – it has the familiar month end and reporting week, but then alongside that you might be working on financials for a new piece of innovation, preparing a report to help a customer understand their margin, or analysing the impact of the price of cream. Previous commercial finance experience isn’t essential, but a good knowledge of how Müller works would be a great benefit.

The role will be based at our Müller Milk & Ingredients site in Droitwich, however, the role will involve some travel between our other sites in Manchester and Market Drayton.

In the role of Commercial Finance Business Support (FTC) the key responsibilities will include:

Having a detailed understanding of the underlying monthly performance. Investigating variances in customer volumes and profitability on a regular basis. Provide input into detailed budget and forecasting process with the Commercial teams in the retail sector, collaborating with the Management Account teams. Co-ordinate the monthly reporting and forecasting cycle, as required by the business. Be Responsible for consolidation of retail financial data from all systems into accurate and relevant information, necessary for the business to make commercial decisions.  Challenging and influencing the sales team on customer volume and DB1 assumptions. Reviewing the outputs of the account profitability systems and work with the Commercial Controlling Business Partners to identify and integrate improvements to improve accuracy and speed of reporting. Work with the business partners to drive increased value into the customer account. Taking ownership of the process for evaluating new business proposals, ensuring accurate inputs and supporting the commercial team through the process. Provide cover for the Business Partner at key meetings if required. Seeking to identify and implement improvements in the commercial review process, including the monthly demand review, weekly volume analysis. Provide key input into the monthly pre-commercial review providing insight into customer performance and challenging the commercial team as to how to improve results. Working with the commercial team to identify all commercial opportunities and areas for improvement. Working with Financial Accounting team and Commercial team to review, assess and where appropriate sign off the month end accruals position for each customer every month. Ensure all accruals are fully supported by authorised GO documentation. Providing support to the sales team providing analysis and insight as a result of customer requests. Ensure that all documentation is appropriately filed and controlled so that access is given only to those that need it

Key skills & experience

Essential: Working towards a recognised Accountancy qualification Essential: Strong Excel and analytical skills Desirable: Proven experience in an FMCG environment Desirable: Experience in the dairy industry Systems knowledge (Movex/AS400, Access, Cognos, SAP). Personable team worker Analytical problem solver with attention to detail Methodical but adaptable to business needs Tenacious Able to effectively communicate with many different types of people Capable of demonstrating the company values consistently in their role Knowledge of the different dairy products: how they relate to each other, quality requirements, pricing structures

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