Job Description:

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 (url removed)

At Müller, we're committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels they belong. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and encourage people to apply even if they don't meet every requirement listed. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know - we're happy to support you.

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