FP&A Marketing Finance Business Partner Full Time NEW

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.