Site Financial Controller - FTC

Job Description

Site Financial Controller

Billingham (Home of McCoys, POM-BEAR, and more!)

On-site

FTC - 15-month maternity cover

Join our snack-loving team

We’re looking for a Site Financial Controller to join us at KP Snacks. If you’re ready to bring your ideas to the table, grow your skills and be part of a team that values what makes you, you – this could be your next big move.

About The Role

As Site Finance Controller, you’ll play a central role in our Teesside Site Leadership Team, partnering with the Plant Manager and colleagues across Operations, Supply Chain and Finance. Your insight, challenge and support will help drive strong P&L performance, deliver site KPIs and enable confident, responsible decision-making.

You’ll lead the financial planning, budgeting and forecasting processes for one of our largest and most complex manufacturing sites, home to over 700 colleagues and around £210m turnover. You’ll shape and influence the site strategy, provide high-quality financial reporting, and ensure robust financial governance across all operations.

What’s in it for you?

We believe in rewarding our colleagues and helping them thrive. Here’s a flavour of what we offer:

• £7,500 annual car allowance.
• Annual bonus scheme, with a strong track record of overachievement
• Comprehensive healthcare support – including Medicash Health Cash Plan or Private Healthcare, Digital GP, Best Doctors second opinion service and specialist cancer care
• KP Pension Plan – contribution matching up to 7% of your salary
• 25 days holiday, plus the option to buy more
• KP4ME – our online platform for benefits, discounts, wellbeing tools and more
  
  

What will you be doing?

• Providing strategic financial leadership to the Site Leadership Team, shaping the site OGSM and G2G targets, interpreting performance trends, and ensuring plans are grounded in robust financial insight and aligned to KP Snacks and Intersnack Group priorities

Leading site-wide financial planning, budgeting and forecasting, covering primes, overheads, labour, logistics, capital investment and restructuring activity, ensuring assumptions are sound and stakeholders are aligned and accountable

Driving high-quality, insight-led financial reporting, including weekly flash results, monthly accounts, variance analysis, waste performance, KPI trends and risk/opportunity assessments that support timely and effective decision-making

Owning and challenging site cost performance, analysing standard cost variances, material usage, labour efficiency, overhead absorption, waste streams and project delivery to identify constraints, improvement opportunities and cost drivers

Ensuring strong, compliant financial governance, overseeing accruals, prepayments, inventory reconciliation, year‑end processes, audit requests, balance sheet integrity, capital appraisals, fixed asset management and adherence to Group accounting standards

Shaping and enabling change activity, supporting NPD launches, packaging changes, product transfers, tender costing requirements and capital installations, including end‑to‑end financial tracking of benefits, risks and delivery

Upskilling colleagues across the site, developing the capability of two Site Accountants and building wider financial understanding across Operations and Supply Chain to drive data-led decision-making and support the site’s loss analysis journey

Driving continuous improvement in finance processes, simplifying ways of working, enhancing financial insight, improving speed and accuracy, and supporting the site’s development through digitalisation, standardisation and best-practice sharing

Who are we?

We’re KP Snacks, part of the Intersnack family. Across more than 30 countries, over 15,000 of us work together to make the snacks people love – from Hula Hoops to McCoy’s. In the UK, we’re a team of around 2,400 colleagues, based across seven sites and our Slough HQ. We’re proud of our close-knit culture, where we speak up, celebrate differences and push boundaries together.

We’re committed to inclusion

We’re building a workplace where everyone belongs. If you don’t tick every box, we’d still love to hear from you – your unique perspective could be just what we need. And if there’s anything we can do to make the process easier for you, just let us know.

Job Requirements

We’d love to hear from you if you can bring:

• Qualified accountant status: CIMA, ACCA, ACA or CA
• FMCG experience - ideally within food manufacturing.
• Strong planning, budgeting and forecasting experience, with the ability to challenge assumptions and influence stakeholders
• Deep management accounting expertise, including variance analysis, standard costing, labour and overhead absorption, and performance reporting
• Knowledge of ERP systems (JD Edwards advantageous) and advanced Excel capability
• Experience leading and developing people, with a collaborative and inclusive leadership style
• Strong financial governance, audit and compliance understanding, with the ability to maintain high-quality controls and processes
• A confident, commercially-minded approach, with the ability to translate data into meaningful insight for non-financial stakeholders
  
  

Site Financial Controller

Billingham (Home of McCoys, POM-BEAR, and more!)

On-site

FTC - 15-month maternity cover

Join our snack-loving team

We’re looking for a Site Financial Controller to join us at KP Snacks. If you’re ready to bring your ideas to the table, grow your skills and be part of a team that values what makes you, you – this could be your next big move.

About The Role

As Site Finance Controller, you’ll play a central role in our Teesside Site Leadership Team, partnering with the Plant Manager and colleagues across Operations, Supply Chain and Finance. Your insight, challenge and support will help drive strong P&L performance, deliver site KPIs and enable confident, responsible decision-making.

You’ll lead the financial planning, budgeting and forecasting processes for one of our largest and most complex manufacturing sites, home to over 700 colleagues and around £210m turnover. You’ll shape and influence the site strategy, provide high-quality financial reporting, and ensure robust financial governance across all operations.

What’s in it for you?

We believe in rewarding our colleagues and helping them thrive. Here’s a flavour of what we offer:

• £7,500 annual car allowance.
• Annual bonus scheme, with a strong track record of overachievement
• Comprehensive healthcare support – including Medicash Health Cash Plan or Private Healthcare, Digital GP, Best Doctors second opinion service and specialist cancer care
• KP Pension Plan – contribution matching up to 7% of your salary
• 25 days holiday, plus the option to buy more
• KP4ME – our online platform for benefits, discounts, wellbeing tools and more
  
  

What will you be doing?

• Providing strategic financial leadership to the Site Leadership Team, shaping the site OGSM and G2G targets, interpreting performance trends, and ensuring plans are grounded in robust financial insight and aligned to KP Snacks and Intersnack Group priorities
• Leading site-wide financial planning, budgeting and forecasting, covering primes, overheads, labour, logistics, capital investment and restructuring activity, ensuring assumptions are sound and stakeholders are aligned and accountable
• Driving high-quality, insight-led financial reporting, including weekly flash results, monthly accounts, variance analysis, waste performance, KPI trends and risk/opportunity assessments that support timely and effective decision-making
• Owning and challenging site cost performance, analysing standard cost variances, material usage, labour efficiency, overhead absorption, waste streams and project delivery to identify constraints, improvement opportunities and cost drivers
• Ensuring strong, compliant financial governance, overseeing accruals, prepayments, inventory reconciliation, year‑end processes, audit requests, balance sheet integrity, capital appraisals, fixed asset management and adherence to Group accounting standards
• Shaping and enabling change activity, supporting NPD launches, packaging changes, product transfers, tender costing requirements and capital installations, including end‑to‑end financial tracking of benefits, risks and delivery

Upskilling colleagues across the site, developing the capability of two Site Accountants and building wider financial understanding across Operations and Supply Chain to drive data-led decision-making and support the site’s loss analysis journey

Driving continuous improvement in finance processes, simplifying ways of working, enhancing financial insight, improving speed and accuracy, and supporting the site’s development through digitalisation, standardisation and best-practice sharing

Who are we?

We’re KP Snacks, part of the Intersnack family. Across more than 30 countries, over 15,000 of us work together to make the snacks people love – from Hula Hoops to McCoy’s. In the UK, we’re a team of around 2,400 colleagues, based across seven sites and our Slough HQ. We’re proud of our close-knit culture, where we speak up, celebrate differences and push boundaries together.

We’re committed to inclusion

We’re building a workplace where everyone belongs. If you don’t tick every box, we’d still love to hear from you – your unique perspective could be just what we need. And if there’s anything we can do to make the process easier for you, just let us know.

We’d love to hear from you if you can bring:

• Qualified accountant status: CIMA, ACCA, ACA or CA
• FMCG experience - ideally within food manufacturing.
• Strong planning, budgeting and forecasting experience, with the ability to challenge assumptions and influence stakeholders
• Deep management accounting expertise, including variance analysis, standard costing, labour and overhead absorption, and performance reporting
• Knowledge of ERP systems (JD Edwards advantageous) and advanced Excel capability
• Experience leading and developing people, with a collaborative and inclusive leadership style
• Strong financial governance, audit and compliance understanding, with the ability to maintain high-quality controls and processes
• A confident, commercially-minded approach, with the ability to translate data into meaningful insight for non-financial stakeholders