Title:  Senior Management Accountant

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.

We’re recruiting …Senior Management Accountant

Müller has been a loved brand in the UK for over 30 years. It’s a household name – and it continues to grow as we invest to make and market an ever-great range of fantastic dairy products. We are currently the 8th most chosen FMCG brand, picked from supermarket shelves over 208 million times each year.

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Management Accountant. Please note that the role is home based and is for a fixed term of 12 months.
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

Senior Management Accountant key responsibilities will include: -
•Immerse into the business to fully understand operating systems and key drivers.
•Actively seek out with site finance business partners 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 cost of sales for review and sign off by site finance business partner’s.
•Consolidated reporting on waste and yields.
•Work with Group Controlling to align on 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 finance 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.

Key skills & experience for the Senior Management Accountant: -
•Qualified Accountant
•Proven Experience in FMCG
•Ability to operate at all levels
•Excellent communication skills with the ability to manage and influence
•SAP experience
•Able to develop strong and independent relationships with Manufacturing leads
•Ability to drive improved controls within site teams
•Understand full processes to enable accurate reporting of performance.
•Self-starter with the ability to drive improvements
•Demonstratable team player, also capable of working on own initiative, developing skills in new areas
•Able to demonstrate MMI core values in their role

Müller pride ourselves on offering support to help develop your knowledge and skills. In return for your commitment, drive and enthusiasm, we offer our employees numerous benefits as part of your employment, including:

Competitive Salary / Bonus scheme / Life Assurance / Contributory pension plan /PMI / Employee Assistance Programme - an easy-to-use app which offers guidance and care for your physical and mental health. It puts a range of health and wellbeing services at the fingertips of Müller employees /  enerous annual leave increasing with service and Flexible benefits programme / New and improved family friendly policies for maternity, adoption/surrogacy and paternity/partner leave / Free onsite parking / In addition, our employees have access to a Rewards Benefits Programme providing an exclusive range of discounts across 800 retailers, utilities, holidays and cinema tickets

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

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Contact Details:

F.A.O. UK Recruitment, Müller UK & Ireland, Shrewsbury Road, Market Drayton, Shropshire, TF9 3SQ