Senior Financial Controls Manager in London

We are seeking a highly motivated finance professional to join our team playing a key role within the business. You will be working alongside a talented, like-minded team for some of Europe’s largest frozen food brands including Birdseye, Aunt Bessie, Findus and Goodfella pizzas.

Key Accountabilities

The Financial Controls Team is headquartered in Woking, the Nomad Foods Head Office. The team supports Group functions, Shared Finance Centre (Hammersmith) and markets which are UK and other European countries. The Team manages several aspects of the Financial Controls Framework, supporting global process owners to understand and manage risk, helping control owners to comply with Financial Controls, and working with testing teams (both internal and external) to ensure smooth audits. This role will have specific responsibility for supporting the Head of Internal Controls to embed and sustain the Financial Controls Framework across Nomad operations. Our controls frameworks are going through an exciting period of redesign in 2026, which includes harmonisation across countries and more automation. This role will be the group expert and lead on the implementation, communication, training, monitoring and improvement of:

• Controls operated by our centralised shared finance centre – where the majority of our country process controls are performed;
• Record to report, procure to pay and order to cash process controls.

The role also advocates for/supports the embedding of all financial controls within our frameworks.

Responsibilities

The role holder will be expected to:

• Lead the financial controls team in Hammersmith (group functions are based in Woking, this role is the most senior team member based in Hammersmith): lead the team (role plus one direct report) in day to day activities, including seamless liaison with Woking team.
• Deputise for and represent the Head of Financial Controls.
• Role model and set a professional controls culture for the full Hammersmith community.
• Lead the shared finance centre to become a centre of controls expertise.
• Present at townhalls and establish a network amongst peers.
• Stakeholder manage and partner the Hammersmith leadership team, including the shared finance centre Director, through all control activities.
• Support the regional (senior) financial controllers and country financial controllers in financial control activities such as deficiency remediation.
• Visibility to control performance – operation and standards.
• Cascading financial controls messages and training.
• Risk identification and management.
• Communication and adherence to controls responsibilities.
• Identification and implementation of continuous improvement opportunities.
• Be the group expert and lead on the record to report, procure to pay and order to cash process controls: partner the record to report, procure to pay and order to cash Global Process Owners in financial control activities such as deficiency remediation.
• Fully understanding the risks, as well as controls / mitigation activities.
• Comfortable with related systems and tools such as Blackline (journals and balance sheet reconciliations) and Workiva.
• Clearly communicate control activities in an easy to understand way to relevant Nomad employees.
• Participate in relevant committees / regular meetings to keep abreast of related operational changes.
• Update the framework for any changes in operations.
• Support the Head of Financial Controls with other ad-hoc and planned tasks such as creating and delivering general controls training.
• Assist in driving a standardised and consistent approach to controls.
• Drive cultural shift and behaviours regarding controls and accountabilities.
• Coordinate and support internal and external audit activities.
• Monitor the progress of audit finding remediation.
• Identify opportunities to standardize, simplify and improve processes to drive balanced risk management.

About you

• Working within Internal Audit, Internal Controls or specific SOX experience.
• University degree or equivalent.
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to act in a professional manner with the skills to influence others.
• Excellent communication skills and able to deliver information orally and written.
• An ability to gather, analyse and evaluate facts.
• Willing and able to challenge people to drive change.
• Pays attention to detail and sees things through to completion.
• Have an enquiring and questioning approach to work.
• FMCG/ foods experience.
• Be a self-starter who manages their own time and seeks to add value to the role.
• Flexible to develop and learn.