Commercial Finance Business Support
Description✓Müller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by the Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller which employs over 24,000 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 more than 1,700 British farmers
✓The Müller brand is ranked at No.7 in The Grocer’s Top 100 list of Britain’s Biggest Brands, and is also the 7th most chosen brand in the UK.
✓Müller offers you a long term career with a genuine market leader – we are an entrepreneurial company where people love to work and make a difference
✓Our competitive advantage comes through driving value through innovation and brands, scale, operational excellence and building a high performing international organisation.
✓We are currently recruiting in our Milk & Ingredients Finance Department for a Commercial Finance Business Support
✓This role will provide financial support to the commercial sales team providing financial analysis, guidance on new and existing business metrics, helping the business understand financial performance and challenging current and future performance including volumes and selling prices.
✓This role is based at our Droitwich office in the West Midlands, however, does offer hybrid flexibiliy between office and home working.
✓Commercial Finance Business Support - Key responsibilities will include:
✓Having a detailed understanding of the underlying monthly performance
✓Investigating variances in customer volumes and profitability on a regular basis
✓Provide input into detailed budget and forecasting process with the Commercial teams in the retail sector, collaborating with the Management Account teams
✓Co-ordinate the monthly reporting and forecasting cycle, as required by the business
✓Be Responsible for consolidation of retail financial data from all systems into accurate and relevant information, necessary for the business to make commercial decisions.
✓Challenging and influencing the sales team on customer volume and DB1 assumptions
✓Reviewing the outputs of the account profitability systems and work with the Commercial Controlling Business Partners to identify and integrate improvements to improve accuracy and speed of reporting
✓Work with the business partners to drive increased value into the customer account
✓Taking ownership of the process for evaluating new business proposals, ensuring accurate inputs and supporting the commercial team through the process
✓Provide cover for the Business Partners at key meetings if required
✓Seeking to identify and implement improvements in the commercial review process, including the monthly demand review, weekly volume analysis
✓Provide key input into the monthly pre-commercial review providing insight into customer performance and challenging the commercial team as to how to improve results
✓Working with the commercial team to identify all commercial opportunities and areas for improvement
✓Working with Financial Accounting team and Commercial team to review, assess and where appropriate sign off the month end accruals position for each customer every month
✓Ensure all accruals are fully supported by authorised GO documentation
✓Providing support to the sales team providing analysis and insight as a result of customer requests
✓Ensure that all documentation is appropriately filed and controlled so that access is given only to those that need it
✓Commercial Finance Business Suipport - Key skills & experience:
✓Essential: Working towards a recognised Accountancy qualification
✓Essential: Strong Excel and analytical skills
✓Desirable: Proven experience in an FMCG environment
✓Desirable: Experience in the dairy industry
✓Systems knowledge [Movex/AS400, Access, Cognos, SAP]
✓Personable team worker
✓Analytical problem solver with attention to detail
✓Methodical but adaptable to business needs
✓Tenacious
✓Able to effectively communicate with many different types of people
✓Capable of demonstrating the company values consistently in their role Show more →
✓In the UK, Müller develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from more than 1,700 British farmers
✓The Müller brand is ranked at No.7 in The Grocer’s Top 100 list of Britain’s Biggest Brands, and is also the 7th most chosen brand in the UK.
✓Müller offers you a long term career with a genuine market leader – we are an entrepreneurial company where people love to work and make a difference
✓Our competitive advantage comes through driving value through innovation and brands, scale, operational excellence and building a high performing international organisation.
✓We are currently recruiting in our Milk & Ingredients Finance Department for a Commercial Finance Business Support
✓This role will provide financial support to the commercial sales team providing financial analysis, guidance on new and existing business metrics, helping the business understand financial performance and challenging current and future performance including volumes and selling prices.
✓This role is based at our Droitwich office in the West Midlands, however, does offer hybrid flexibiliy between office and home working.
✓Commercial Finance Business Support - Key responsibilities will include:
✓Having a detailed understanding of the underlying monthly performance
✓Investigating variances in customer volumes and profitability on a regular basis
✓Provide input into detailed budget and forecasting process with the Commercial teams in the retail sector, collaborating with the Management Account teams
✓Co-ordinate the monthly reporting and forecasting cycle, as required by the business
✓Be Responsible for consolidation of retail financial data from all systems into accurate and relevant information, necessary for the business to make commercial decisions.
✓Challenging and influencing the sales team on customer volume and DB1 assumptions
✓Reviewing the outputs of the account profitability systems and work with the Commercial Controlling Business Partners to identify and integrate improvements to improve accuracy and speed of reporting
✓Work with the business partners to drive increased value into the customer account
✓Taking ownership of the process for evaluating new business proposals, ensuring accurate inputs and supporting the commercial team through the process
✓Provide cover for the Business Partners at key meetings if required
✓Seeking to identify and implement improvements in the commercial review process, including the monthly demand review, weekly volume analysis
✓Provide key input into the monthly pre-commercial review providing insight into customer performance and challenging the commercial team as to how to improve results
✓Working with the commercial team to identify all commercial opportunities and areas for improvement
✓Working with Financial Accounting team and Commercial team to review, assess and where appropriate sign off the month end accruals position for each customer every month
✓Ensure all accruals are fully supported by authorised GO documentation
✓Providing support to the sales team providing analysis and insight as a result of customer requests
✓Ensure that all documentation is appropriately filed and controlled so that access is given only to those that need it
✓Commercial Finance Business Suipport - Key skills & experience:
✓Essential: Working towards a recognised Accountancy qualification
✓Essential: Strong Excel and analytical skills
✓Desirable: Proven experience in an FMCG environment
✓Desirable: Experience in the dairy industry
✓Systems knowledge [Movex/AS400, Access, Cognos, SAP]
✓Personable team worker
✓Analytical problem solver with attention to detail
✓Methodical but adaptable to business needs
✓Tenacious
✓Able to effectively communicate with many different types of people
✓Capable of demonstrating the company values consistently in their role Show more →