Senior Management Accountant in East Kilbride

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, 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.

Location: East Kilbride / Hybrid - 3 days on-site per week.

Contract: Full-Time, Permanent

Hours: Monday-Friday (40 hours)

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 Senior Management Accountant, 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.

What you will do:

• Immerse into the business to fully understand operating systems and key drivers.
• Actively seek out with site finance BP's 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 COS for review and sign off by site finance business partners.
• Consolidated reporting on waste and yields.
• Work with GCO to implement BOARD 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 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.

What you will bring:

• Qualified Accountant
• Proven Experience in FMCG
• Ability to operate at all levels
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to manage and influence
• SAP experience
• Self-starter with the ability to drive improvements
• Needs to be a team player, but capable of working on own initiative, developing skills in new areas.

At Müller, we're committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels they belong. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and encourage people to apply even if they don't meet every requirement listed. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know - we're happy to support you.