Title:  Commercial Accountant

Who we are

We’re Müller UK & Ireland, a family-run dairy business and we’re experts at what we do. Dairy is a key part of a healthy and balanced diet and we’re super proud to help meet the nutritional needs of millions of people, every, single, day. To do this, our business has been split into two areas: Müller Milk & Ingredients (MMI) and Müller Yogurt & Desserts (MYD).

Join MMI and step into a culture that’s fast-paced and full of opportunity. With great benefits, exciting challenges, a dream team of people, this is your chance to make a real impact.

Over here, we’re processing enough milk to make 66 billion cups of tea every year. And we’re so much more than just milk. This is the place to come for cream, butter, milk drinks and ingredients products (a lot, we know), all made from milk from over 1,000 supplying farmers in Britain.

Why Müller?

Milk flows through everything at Müller – from farm to factory to fridge. But the true impact comes from our people, in each and every corner of the business, working hard and as a team to put smiles on faces everywhere, making each day delicious for our shoppers.

As the UK's most popular dairy brand, we’re always striving to make a real difference for our planet, our partners and our people, making sure we're helping to create a more sustainable dairy future. We’re growing to keep up with the millions of people reaching for our branded and private label products on shelves everywhere. Join a culture full of pace that’s bold and entrepreneurial, with opportunities that are yours for the taking – and even enjoy every benefit and bonus to sweeten the deal.

We're Hiring: Commercial Accountant

Location: Market Drayton / Hybrid - 3 days on-site per week.

Contract: Full-Time, Permanent

Hours: Monday–Friday (40 hours)

Are you 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 Commercial Accountant position.

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.

As our Commercial Accountant, you will prepare the weekly and monthly performance reports within ingredients and milk supply finance team. You will Business Partner the planning and Trading teams to ensure consistency of information used across MS&I (Milk Supply & Ingredients).

What you’ll do:-
•The Ingredients business unit is responsible for Butter, Powder, and Liquid products in order to make the best commercial decision of excess milk and cream on a ‘make or sell’ basis in light of prevailing commodity price conditions; you will provide support into the finance and operations teams responsible for this activity.
•Prepare routine weekly and monthly performance reports within ingredients and milk supply finance team and provide additional support with month end transactional activity where required.
•Ensure appropriate four eye checks are carried out across milk supply and ingredients finance, for journals, price changes and reporting.
•Maintain or create documentation of routine reports and processes in MS&I.
•Management reporting as requested by Financial Controller including;
oAbility to extract and analyse data from SAP for reporting purposes, to support Group or adhoc requests.
oWeekly co-ordination of Group reports and decision sheets for milk supply and ingredients, ensuring appropriate reviews and controls in place before issuing.
oPreparation of month end functional pack for milk supply and ingredients.
•Proactively seek to identify improvement in the month end process and monthly reporting with the aim to improve accuracy and/or efficiency.
•Maximise efficient use of financial systems already in place, to report EBIT at customer level (use of COPA and SAP FI).
•Support the Financial Controller Ingredients and Finance Analyst in delivering all financial reports accurately and ontime.
•Business partner planning to ensure consistency of reports and information available for key forecasts.
•SAP and excel super user - provide system support to analysts and management accountants within milk supply and ingredients.
•Cover for analyst and management accountant roles in MS&I as required.

What you will bring: -
•Part qualified CIMA/ACCA or working towards qualification
•Ideally have experience of manufacturing/costing
•Experience of SAP
•Experience in a similar role
•Very accurate and strong attention to detail
•Strong excel and analytical skills.
•Tenacious and proactive
•Good relationship building and communication skills
•Analytical problem solver with attention to detail.

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