Position Snapshot
Nestlé UK & Ireland
Sales Finance Controller - 2.5 days part time
Gatwick
Circa £35,000 (Pro rata ) + Car Allowance + Potential Bonus + Pension + Holiday + Flex leave
This is a permanent part time opportunity, please speak to us about what flexibility means to you as we are always open to discuss individual’s flexible working needs.
Position Summary
We are recruiting for a focused individual to join the Finance team with key focus on providing Finance Co-pilot support to the Nutrition categories. You’ll be responsible for supporting the category in completing the Monthly Business Planning cycle, creating transparency around the Net Net Sales delivery and variances to targets, supporting the Category and Sales teams with pricing and promotion optimisation opportunities, using Strategic Revenue Management (SRM) levers, through providing insight and strongly supporting a fact based decision making process based on current business environment, category insight, and specialist financial knowledge.
A day in the life of a Sales Category Finance Controller
- Monthly planning cycle - prepare and propose monthly sales value forecast, understanding deviations from it, actively manage volume and trade spend risks and opportunities to deliver the sales forecast.
- Dynamic Forecast Process - Prepare sales forecast information for and attend the Dynamic Forecast Alignment meeting alongside the Nutrition Category team to ensure business forecast sign off.
- Pricing strategy - support Category with pricing strategy, setting of promotional guidelines, pricing workshops, scenario planning, Quarterly Business Review preparation and Category team training and capability.
- Quarterly Investment Reviews (QIRs) - lead action focused QIRs, working with Category, Finance and Sales to identify key decisions, opportunities and discussion topics.
- SRM - Trade Spend Return On Investment - maximize the return on investment from Trade Spend including optimisation on promotions, Joint Business Plans and Growth Overrider investments.
- SRM - analyse and challenge product portfolio and product mix to identify optimization opportunities to enhance marginal contribution and to eliminate value destroyers.
- Target setting - financial input into channel and customer role definition and target setting. Provide insight on forecast versus actual variances.
- Assess Business Category performance, identifying risks and opportunities, and providing transparency and recommendations to the Category leadership team.
What will make you successful?
To be successful in this role you will ideally be a qualified/close to qualified Accountant with proven experience in Finance & Controlling. You will need to have high levels of drive that ensures a strong result focused mind-set, with a good eye for detail and a high level of initiative to support the business in implementing commercial investment strategies.
Your insight will enable you to quickly understand how the business decisions you manage impact business KPIs overall, enabling you to successfully use your communication and influencing capabilities across all levels of the organisation. Finally, you will need the ability to be flexible when prioritising work in an environment that is often ambiguous.
You will have:
- Exceptional communication skills
- Flexibility and the ability to prioritise
- Experience of building cross-functional networks
- The ability to cope well under pressure
- Good knowledge of the P&L
- Sustained performance in the Finance function
- Strong influencing skills
- Ideally ACCA or CIMA qualified
What You Need To Know
What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, 25 days holiday plus statutory holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme, Flexible working, and a real focus on personal development and growth all centered round a supportive and ambitious team.
Job advert posting date 18 July 2025
Job advert closing date 6th of August 2025
We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.
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