Title: Sales Finance Business Partner

City: Market Drayton

Department: Finance & Tax

Location:

Market Drayton, GB, TF9 3SQ

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 … Sales Finance Business Partner

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 looking to welcome a Sales Finance Business Partner to our team for a fixed term (Secondment) of 13 months; we’re looking for experienced individual to act as a key commercial business partner supporting the Sales Financial Controller in business partnering the Commercial team. You will provide day-to-day and strategic financial and commercial decision support ensuring robustness financial data and commercial forecasts.

The role is based at our Market Drayton Head Office.

Your challenge for the Sales Finance Business Partner: -

Business Partner the Sales Teams providing financial and commercial decision support and insight to drive the business forward in these areas.
Management of Customers P&L’s.
Evaluation and development of individual customer business plans.
Input into the Sales business review process.
Input into the monthly promotional management process.
Pre and post promo evaluation reviews.
Support in terms of resolving debt issues.
Dealing with day-to-day queries from your key contacts.
Ad-hoc reporting and analysis.
Work closely on JBP’s, attending external customer meetings.
GO compliance-ensure financial commitments from pre-evaluated and pre-approved in line with the company’s compliance policy.
Build strong relationships across the commercial teams to ensure involvement in decision up-front.
To remain accurate in a fast-paced commercial environment whilst remaining pragmatic in judgement of materiality.
Take a holistic view across the commercial sphere.
Controlling support in M cycle process working closely with Sales Controller and teams.
Attend Sales Business review and pre-meetings providing support and analysis to feed into the presentation.
Review, analyse and challenge risk and opportunities and commercial forecast.
Analyse monthly financial forecast to provide insight into key changes by customer and brand, explaining variances vs previous forecast, budget and prior year result.
Review with the commercial team of YTD and YTG full year sales forecast and associated CM, ensuring plans are sufficient to meet the annual targets.
Reconciliation of customer NSV.
Analysis of performance vs forecast & prior year.
Preparation of required journal postings.
Month End Day 5/6/7 preparation and reporting.
Provide commentary on key drivers of performance for customer base.
On an annualised basis, (July-September), lead the commercial teams for Business Unt area through the commercial budgeting process ensuring that robust plans are developed which meet the issued top-down targets.
Be open-minded and actively seek process improvement and efficiencies in ways of working.

Key skills & experience for the Sales Finance Business Partner: -

Recognised Accounting qualification (CIMA / ACCA / ACA)
Ability to manage a wide-ranging stakeholder base across the business
Able to work to tight deadlines with agility and proficiency
Time Management
Willingness to drive change and process improvements
Advice and support of strategic changes affecting sales and wider business
Ability to provide decision support & challenge to the commercial teams
Relationship building and communication skills
Financial and commercial modelling skills
Structured approach to managing priorities across multiple projects over different time horizons
Ability to operate at all levels within the commercial teams
Stakeholder Management
Management of multi projects
Commercially minded

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 / Generous annual leave increasing with service / Flexible benefits programme / New and improved family friendly policies for maternity, adoption/surrogacy and paternity/partner leave / 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