Salary up to £38,000 (depending on experience) plus potential bonus and excellent benefits including pension, 25 days holiday plus an additional 12 flex days and study support.
This is a full-time permanent opportunity, but we are always open to discussing individual flexible working needs, so please speak to us during the recruitment process to understand what this could look like for you.
Position Summary
We are currently recruiting for a talented individual to join our Finance Team as Assistant Factory Financial Controller, reporting into the Factory Financial Controller onsite.
Cereal Partners is a joint venture between General Mills and Nestlé. Cereal Partners Staverton Factory is home to Nestlé Shreddies, Shredded Wheat, and Honey Nut Shredded Wheat. These products are produced through controlled process plants and automated filling and packing lines. Manufacturing in Cereal Partners is all about ensuring the consumer receives a perfect quality product at the right time and place while driving losses from our business to maximize efficiency and productivity.
At Cereal Partners UK, we have established ourselves as one of the largest cereal manufacturers in the UK, making many well-loved brands with a long heritage. Our aim is simple: to provide high-quality, nutritious, and great-tasting breakfast cereals. You could join our mission to create a nation of Cereal Lovers!
A Day in the Life of an Assistant Factory Controller
You will be responsible for providing a comprehensive financial support service both to and on behalf of the factory and the Factory Financial Controller. You’ll play a key part in providing visibility of all costing-related situations associated with our factory processes through controlling variances and delivering value-adding insights. You’ll do this proactively and in line with financial legal requirements and our Nestlé audit standards.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Provide support on all CAPEX and Fixed Asset related activities including the validation of financials, management of AUC balance, and Fixed Asset Register accuracy.
2. Proactively challenge assumptions to drive cost improvements across the factory by playing an active part in cost-saving improvement projects through identification, review, and validation of proposed and actual savings.
3. Provide visibility and forecasts around all of our factory costs through analysis and reporting both on monthly actuals and for the dynamic forecasting process.
4. Participate actively in the month-end process including journals, reconciliations, and monthly reporting.
5. Ensure cost objectives for the factory are achieved by continuously identifying and promoting cost reduction initiatives to the Factory Controller and overall management team, providing support where needed.
6. Participate and lead business planning activities through preparing and coordinating the factory ACE (Annual Cost Estimate) in conjunction with the Factory Controller, developing forecasts including revisions and simulations.
7. Identify and drive cost improvement opportunities through financial insight and internal and external benchmarking.
8. Support the Factory Controller on best practice implementation to demonstrate robust internal controls around all assets and liabilities within the factory.
9. Develop the factory’s overall understanding of financial data, including its importance, while providing an environment for people you support to develop their financial capabilities.
10. Drive, support, and accelerate the factory’s NCE journey aligned to the UK&I overall NCE strategy.
11. Act as a custodian, ensuring compliance across all financial matters for the factory.
12. Deputize for the Factory Financial Controller as and when required.
What Will Make You Successful?
To be successful in this role, you will be a part- or fully qualified Accountant with ideally a breadth of Finance experience already under your belt. You’ll have a strong aptitude for creatively finding solutions to problems and suggesting new ways of working to enable the factory to compete at a higher level.
You’ll have an excellent eye for detail and understand how your decisions impact the wider business strategy. You’ll also have great communication skills that enable you to influence across all levels while developing positive cross-business relationships. The ability to be flexible when prioritizing work in an often ambiguous environment is crucial, and you’ll be results-focused and curious in everything you do.
You will also have:
* Experience of working with Excel at an intermediate level.
* Working knowledge of SAP would be desirable.
This really is a fantastic opportunity if you are looking for a role to continue developing your finance career in a factory that is truly leading the way.
What You Need to Know
What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé Cereal Partners – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme, and a real focus on personal development and growth.
The closing date for this role is 11th February 2025.
We will be considering candidates as they apply, and we may occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.
At Nestlé Cereal Partners, our values are rooted in respect – for our employees, our customers, and our consumers. That’s why championing diversity and inclusion is so important to us; when we embrace different perspectives and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business. We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process. Be yourself; everyone else is taken!
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